My Yaruki （やる気）

Well i've been on the sentence method now for just over a week and i'm really starting to gain momentum now especially with the help i've received from the people over at the RevTK forums answering many of my questions i had about how to choose the correct sort of sentences and to stop worrying that i find it difficult to remember some and that they will come in time.

A good example was a sentence with the word　図書館(library) its not exactly the most difficult word in the world to remember but when its in context and especially being comprised of 3 kanji it was very daunting but i perserviered and took the advice of collecting more sentences that use the word and try to have less new knowledge within the sentence other than the word i'm trying to learn and low an behold the word is now easy such is the power of an SRS.

As i mentioned i've been picking up pace with the sentences i started with only a few a day erlie last week but i've now pushed this up to over 20 sentences a day with the odd vocab card mixed in as glowingfaceman had suggested, now that i am on holiday for a week i'm aiming to reach the 350-400 sentence mark by the end of next week.

Also on the subject of the AJATT method i've also slowly been stepping it up a gear in this area also i usually have some Jdrama playing in the background while sentence mining or just at the laptop in general currently have "litre of tears" playing and have noticed i already pick up more words than i have noticed before which is great motivation.

Current Anki statistics.

The 185 seen cards in this deck contain:

• 206 total unique kanji.
• Jouyou: 201 of 1945 (10.3%).
• Jinmeiyou: 1 of 287 (0.3%).
• 4 non-jouyou kanji.

Jouyou levels:

• Grade 1: 35 of 80 (43.8%).
• Grade 2: 67 of 160 (41.9%).
• Grade 3: 41 of 200 (20.5%).
• Grade 4: 22 of 200 (11.0%).
• Grade 5: 4 of 185 (2.2%).
• Grade 6: 13 of 181 (7.2%).
• JuniorHS: 19 of 939 (2.0%).

Finally after over 4 months of studying RTK with a few brakes in between i have completed all 2042 of the commonly used Kanji, i'd like to say a big thanks to the revTK community without that site's SRS and the community there i would probably never have finished, now i just need to keep up my daily reviews as i still get over 100 to review each and expect this to stay the same for a while yet.

Now its finally onto adding sentances and improving my AJATT environment over the comming weeks/months/years i'll be keeping a record of my progress with the sentances and how i feel my Japanese has improved over time.

Currently I'm only at the point were i pick up the odd word etc when reading/watching something but hopefully this will soon change.

Will post soon with more updates.

I've been think for a while now that it would be a great idea to set up a blog mainly for me to track my progress in learning the Japanese language so i can look back from a year from now and see how far i have come and to also provide myself with that little bit of extra motivation when i can see i am better than i might have been a few month ago.

It's also a place for people to perhaps find any idea's that they may deem usefull in there studies or to provide help with my own.

Starting from now i'll be posting my progress with learning the Kanji using the Heisig method with Remembering the Kanji volume 1 and then onto the sentance method using an SRS whilst all the while trying to maintain some sort of Japanese environment in my daily life.

RTK Log

Currently on: 1860

Not far to go now untill i finish RTK at the current rate i should be done for the next weekend then its onto the sentance method while keeping up with the daily reviews on RTK