Wednesday, March 30, 2011

What would you do in 150 days?!

So End of March I've been done with RTK1 for a week. Haven't started RTK3 as I still have plenty of reviews from RTK1. I'm not entirely sure I will continue into RTK3 at least maybe not until next September when I'm in Japan and have more immediate use for them. The reason is simple I want to dedicate more time to learning vocabularity with the Kanji I already know. I plan to move through KO2001 ANDD core2k6k.

KO2001: 21 cpd x 150 days = 3150
Core6k  : 30 cpd x 150 days = 4500
俺の文:Any amount.
Unsuspend Kanji from RTK3 I have encountered in my sentences.
Add Kanji I encountered outside of RTK.

Total : 7650 cards completely by the first day of school. I plan to take out 3 hours a day besides how long reviews take to do this but not sure how long that will actually take. 3 hours I won't be doing sentences constantly it would be more like 7 cards from KO 10 from Core and w/e from my sentences and the rest of the time I'll be relaxing listening to music or watching TV. The reviews alone will probably take a total of 1-2 hours throughout the day but I don't have to do them all at once. 2 sets in the morning at 15 minutes. 1 set between classes. a couple sets after classes etc.

I will not do Tae Kim guides and here's why. The Anki deck sucks or I just don't get it. It's basic sentences but some of the sentences are for female and then others are for male and then Anki deck has no distinction to make it clear. The english they use to describe it is weird and confusing and requires you to learn how to talk funny to use the deck. I just don't like it after trying it out for a few days and it was the main thing holding me back from getting further. I wanted to blow through it as it was basic and then continue with KO. but what ended up happening is me doing my Kanji reviews and then getting the fuck off my computer because I hate tae kim so bad. So no KO no Tae Kim no Core just Kanji. That isn't going to get me further. So i deleted the deck today and got through 35 core cards and 21 KO cards just like that. Felt great deleting Tae Kim off my computer. Best decision I've made imo. I've taken classes so that basic grammar isn't really needed for me. I know how to form causative passive sentences. I speak mostly casual forms. Moving on.

Secret Goal:

Blow the placement test for my school out the water so they don't know where to put me in classes. They have classes designed to teach you all the JOYO kanji with readings. If I'm past basic conversations and i know a decent amount of JOYO kanji readings then I'll probably end up in their literature class which would be cool to me.

Immediate goals :

Listen to 3000 hours of Japanese.
Get through 8000 cards in Anki
Delete 4000 cards in the end
okay maybe not we'll see
Keep moving forward.

1 comment:

  1. Incredible Goals! And congratz to your Rtk1 success! I don't mean to criticise you, but.. 3 hours a day is a fucking lot. Effectively - from my experience - you will be studying 1:40min. from 3 hours in total. The rest will be distractions like the following:

    INTERNET.
    It's evil. Thinking of getting some OS without the possibility to go online and just to concentrate on Anki and Japanese.

    Good luck.

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