![]() ![]() I even had it at only 2-3 new cards a day for a few weeks but I never stopped. At the same time I started reading my first light novel and mined words from there.Īt first I did 15 new cards a day, but later I decided to add a kanji-focused deck (more info in the next section) and to avoid burning out I lowered the amount to 10 new cards a day, sometimes I even kept it lower when I felt I was too busy or I didn’t feel in the mood. I started out with anime subs but quickly realized I don’t like mining subtitles, so I just stuck to light novels and some (not much) VNs. When I started, I just made full sentence cards of pretty much anything I was reading. I love it.Īll I wanted to get out of anki was being able to remember the sounds words make even when I read them in kanji without furigana or any phonetic aid help, since that has always been my Achilles heel. I later transitioned to using yomichan to sentence mine because it’s just that good, honestly. ![]() I decided I “needed” anki because I realized that although my understanding of spoken Japanese and my vocab level was pretty decent, I was really lacking in ability to read stuff and a lot of games and most light novels were pretty much unapproachable to me. I first started doing Anki “seriously” (remember, I burned out before) a year or so ago using my own mining deck and Better Anki Settings using the old MIA (now Migaku) anki extension to mine sentences with. I know it sounds crazy to some people but all I wanted was watch anime and read manga (with furigana) and I just picked up maybe 200-300 common kanji by just figuring out common words (今日, 私, 僕, etc) and that was good enough for me at first. One thing to keep in mind, I’ll repeat: I never touched Kanji until 3-4 years into my studies. Spent maybe 2 years just (badly) reading manga and watching anime (almost always no subs, JP or otherwise), stuck mostly to furigana stuff, never used yomichan at first.Never touched kanji nor bothered to study them before, I just tried to remember how the words looked like and how they sounded.Did an anki core deck (2k/6k) for a couple months up to 500-600 words before burning out and hating anki.Only just wanted to read manga/watch anime, never cared too much about grammar or progress or anything.Started Japanese sometime in late 2016/early 2017.Just to give you an idea, I’m not the typical “first time” anki user, and I didn’t start using anki full-time as a full beginner, so my experience is a bit different from most people I see around here and it’s worth pointing it out. I see people write these posts all the time so I thought, why not make one myself? I’m very happy I can say exactly one year ago I decided to stick to anki (after failing many times) and exactly today I managed to reach a 365 days streak.Īs a way to celebrate, I decided to think back about a year ago when I started, how much it did (and did not) help my Japanese progress, where I was and where I am now, and share a word of advice with everyone else around here. A Full Year of Anki - My retrospective and Advice ![]()
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