Okay, I’ve just completed season 3! ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆ I really liked that season! But I can see how TF is slowly becoming harder and harder ~ It’s not too bad right now, but I can see how it was a bit harder than last season! It’s probably mainly the amount of verbs and words you have to remember that is the hardest! XD (So many!) (￣□￣;)

Tomorrow is my first day back to school after my little holiday (ahhh holidays are the best, why do they have to end? D: ) so I thought that for the next four days I will try to just revise on Anki when I come home from school! (also I’ll do WaniKani ~ Just tried it yesterday and it is as good as people said it was! It’s a bit slow right now, but I get how it just starts slow and then builds up ^_^) That way I won’t fall behind with the vocab and other stuff like I feel like I’m going to! XD And then I’ll do a bit of season 4 in the weekend! (ノ^∇^)

Do you guys have any tips with revising and remembering words? I think I will probably just get the hang of it as I practise it on Anki more and more, but is there any other tips or secrets? Or better yet, as a beginner Japanese learner, is there anything that could help me with my Japanese learning over all? Thank you guys! ｡^‿^｡

@Jonas
Thanks for the advice! Okay I feel a lot better then. So I should just be happy with my motivation while it lasts! :D I was a bit worried that if I take in vocabulary and kanji and other things a bit too fast then I might forget them quicker than if I took it a bit slower, but if I just keep practising every day, that shouldn’t happen! (*^▽^*)

On another note, today was probably the first time where I got a bit ‘stuck’, or whatever you call it on Text Fugu. (￣□￣;) Last night I went to sleep thinking that I probably wasn’t nearly as confident with my kanji as I would like to be. :;(∩´﹏`∩);:

I had no trouble at all remembering what the kanji meant, just remembering the on’yomi and kun’yomi readings and knowing when to use them in what situation in vocabulary. That really stumped me. (；☉_☉)

So I looked up many threads from the (many) people who had the same trouble and after a while, thanks to the helpful comments and many links I was able to work out when they are used and how they have many exceptions too, which made me feel quite a lot better! Though I still had trouble remembering which reading was which, so I did the next step. I just went over the kanji readings on the kanji page on Text Fugu as well as when which one is used in which vocabulary and then by the end of the day my confusement with kanji reading vanished! ☆*･゜ﾟ･*\(^O^)/*･゜ﾟ･*☆ (Well, so far anyway… I’m sure I will keep getting trouble probably in the future, but I’ll just keep being positive, yeah? :D ) So I wrote that in my review for the second season of what I was proud of. :)

I was happy with myself that when I woke up with morning I felt kind of worried (okay, a LOT worried) about my problem with kanji reading and vocab. (after getting almost all of them wrong when doing the anki revision, I knew I had a BIG problem… (;° ロ°) ) and then by the end of the day I got basically all of them right just by reading a couple of comments by the so helpful members of this community and some other stuff too. So I would just like to say thank you guys! (/∇＼*)｡o○♡

I guess my lesson is to not give up and just keep trying, because the moment when something just ‘clicks’ might be just around the corner! (☆^ー^☆)

Welcome to Text Fugu! “ヽ(´▽｀)ノ” Oh wow having a Japanese exchange student sounds like fun! Do you remember any of it or were you too young? Good luck with your Japanese learning! ☆

Hi there ‘random guy’ or KreisKlinge (which one should I call you? :P ), welcome! ^_^ I’m a newbie too, pleased to meet you! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

I literally just finished season 2! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

Which means I finished two seasons in… 3 days. Is that bad? I know that sounds like I’ve been rushing it or something, but honestly it doesn’t feel that way! I’ve been learning Japanese at school (by myself on an internet course, kind of like this one, but no where near as helpful) a couple of times a week so it’s not like I’m a complete beginner, though I would still call myself a beginner. (I didn’t really know any of the grammar points or a lot of vocab.)

Anyway, I learnt hiragana quite a long time ago and was quite confident in that area, so in season 1, I didn’t do all the learning hiragana exercises, though I did read everything. So that’s why it took me less time than how long it would usually take me to do it. So I did season 1 in a bit more than 5 hours and then 1/3 of season 2 that night. Then I did the second third on the second day and finished the second season on the third day. I know that might sound like I’m pushing myself, but I don’t even know I’m doing it! Once I start something and I really enjoy it, I literally can’t stop. And so I forget everything else I was supposed to do. Is that good or bad? It’s like I can’t burn out or get tired or something… Which might be a good thing, when I think about it that way. I don’t feel like I’m cramming, I just feel like I’m doing a fun activity for a little while.

But even so, I also read all the comments in this forum and I sort of noticed that a lot of people were doing about around an hour+ each day, so you can remember all the new information that you learnt rather than cramming it all in. Like do a bit each day and that way all the new information slowly settles in your mind, like a little baby getting nicely tucked into her cozy bed rather than trying to stuff all the information at once like throwing the baby aggressively into it’s cot from the other side of the house while screaming “I’M THE WAR LOOOOOOOORD!!!!!!!!”

Anyway my holidays are ending in a couple of days, so I definitely won’t have that much time to constantly over work myself or try to remember too much at once. I’ll probably just do an hour a day or something… (Hopefully I don’t jinx myself when I say that and do nothing at all! D:) Over all I have a sorta good memory, (weirdly enough, my entire family does) but I don’t think that I can remember EVERYTHING if I work myself TOO hard… :;(∩´﹏`∩);:

Anyway the point of this is am I working myself too hard? Or since I don’t feel burnt out at all, is it good that I’ve done this much Japanese? To be honest though, I’ve been doing nothing but Japanese (when I think about my last three days, then I realise that’s all I’ve been doing! Other than karate and some exercise this morning, I’ve just been doing TF or other Japanese websites or revision) and since I’m doing that, does that mean I will learn more? Or maybe tomorrow I’ll wake up and I’ll forget everything… I hope not!

Sorry for the long post! (´；д；`)

Nice to meet you Tobias! Good luck with your Japanese learning! ^_^