Herp derp -_-. That was a giant fail on my part, I don’t know how I missed that thread. Mods, please delete this thread.

1. Are mini-lessons useful to you or no (please be honest!)?

As a semi-beginner, the mini-lessons are a really nice middle ground between textbook style example sentences and real Japanese readings. It really helps me to read “real” Japanese instead of simplified textbook-style grammar. I’m still working on my vocabulary, so I use a dictionary and stick words that I don’t know in an Anki deck. Thus, the mini-lessons are very useful to me.

2. Do you read the mini-lesson posts (please be honest!)?

All of them!

3. Are they too hard? Too easy to be useful?

Some are a little advanced for me (early Season 2) but with a little push in the right direction I generally can understand them.

4. Should I do these less frequently?

Once a week is cool, but please keep making new ones!

5. Is certain content better for mini lessons in your opinion? What’s the best kind of mini-lesson content? What’s the worst?

I like the “real life” Japanese content. It really helps me to learn certain nuances and weird tricks that are present in “real” Japanese.

6. Are you just waiting for others to respond to see the answers? Are you answering on your own but not posting up?

I write all my answers in a text file on my computer and retry them in a few days. I don’t know why I don’t post them.

7. Anything else that might be helpful? :D

Keep it up! These are really awesome learning tools!

If you want to download from somewhere where Google Docs doesn’t let you download (i.e. mobile phone, iPod, etc.) you can download these PDFs from here.

The full link: http://www.learnjapanese.com/lessons/jouyou-kanji-practice-sheets

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