Great to see people are still going at it!

I regretfully burned out a few months back, it’s moments like these I’m glad I got the lifetime membership. I will say this, although it’s been months since I did any in-depth study I find an incredible amount of the content I learned from the seasons (Up to season 6) is still retained in this noodle brain of mine. I’m immensely sluggish when compared to my former self when I had my daily pattern down but it just goes to show TF really works :)

Perhaps when the next TF update comes I’ll dive back in (Stop laughing! I know Koichi takes his time with the updates :P).

I obviously regret stopping my studies looking back now. So for anyone thinking of taking a breather…DON’T! I hope you folks continue :)

It’s something I’m seriously considering. I can’t imagine it would be that difficult to catch up to where I was up to before. With the weekend coming up it would be a perfect time to jump-start again :) Getting into the learning pattern again however will take some practice. Going over Season 1 the “What excuses hold you back”, this had seriously made me re-evaluate a few things. I can’t use the classic, “I don’t have enough time”. The hard truth is I do, but I prioritize my time on other things instead of learning Japanese (Makes me a sad Panda).

You ever experience getting burned out Aikibujin when learning Japanese?

Cimmik wrote:

Is it possible that you hit the dip and it was too steep for you to get out of it at that time, Wasif Asif?

I believe so. It felt like I came a long way but looking back at my earlier posts I recall Kanji being the bane of my existence :) I’ll use this weekend to go over the earlier seasons, I’m confident I can play catch up pretty quickly.

I just recently started with Season 4 (with adjectives and stuff) and ugh, it’s going a bit rough, haha! I find it difficult to keep going, in terms of advancing towards more chapters. Just the first chapter is giving me a hard time in grasping what it says and it’s demotivating me to feel stuck like this. Previously I’ve measured my progress by how many chapters I did each week but I haven’t went onto chapter two even and it’s been more than a week now.

My streak is still going however! Been going through my Anki decks since I started studying the language, which is Nov 23 2013, so almost three months now. Though, it’s getting harder to tell myself to “get it over with” each day that passes by. Originally I could easily just go through my Anki decks whenever I came home from school, happened automatically really, but now I just procrastinate til’ I’m just about to head to bed towards the evening. Kind of terrifying to be honest, don’t wanna break my flawless streak!

Don’t know what to do about it to be honest. I wanna keep up so I can one day be able to chat with my Japanese speaking friends! (Can’t rely on Google Translate forever haha). Anyone who has had a similar experience like me who can perhaps give me a helping hand of any sort (advise, tips, something?).

I’m alright with the grammar part, though I haven’t looked at it that much. It’s the words themselves are hard to grasp. They’re difficult, some sound similar to each other, with only a kana or two differing sometimes. Learning my first few verbs was the same experience. They take a really long time to differentiate between and get me on the edge to smashing my head in pavement really… (not not really but you know, frustrating as hell). I’m also really good at repeating past mistakes! For example, if I guess ‘x’ on a word that shows up in Anki, I sure as hell will guess the same exact thing the next time it comes up! Sometimes I even go out of my way to look up up the word/kanji on jisho.org, so that I’ll remember that I really struggle with this one when I see it the next time. Despite this, I still do it!! It’s stupid xD

One thing I try to do a lot (outside of TextFugu) is to use the things I’ve learned as much as I can whilst talking Japanese to native speakers. However, TextFugu’s Anki decks doesn’t like showing the kanji for the words I review either, not even on the side or anything, which bothers me because it gives me literally zero chance of recognizing it if I’d happen to read it elsewhere (like when chatting with my Japanese friends).

Learning words individually is far from my strongest method to understanding faster. Feels too abstract I suppose. I need more sentences to work with (wish there was more example sentences on practice pages!). Maybe even some beginner reading/listening comprehension of some sort so I can really nail the very basics, the most common things you hear and such and practice my pronunciation/speaking speed. I’m not too much of a fan of creating my own sentences, at least not when I don’t have a teacher/knowledgeable person to review my sentences. That way, it makes me uncomfortable about doing that… If they were to be incorrect, I would never know! At least never for absolute sure.