My Yaruki （やる気）

For the past couple of weeks or so I've been mostly concentrating on learning vocabulary and almost completely ignored actively learning grammar which has involved me mining many +1 materials with new vocab words this has lead to an obvious increase in my vocab knowledge which in turn i can understand more from shows and written works than i could a month or so ago.

Now a lot of people may say that oh well you can understand more vocab but do you actually know what it means when used in context well the answer the majority of the time is yes for one all my vocab has been learned in context and without any real effort. I've picked up a load of grammar without actively studying it in a long time for example the other day i had a quick look through Japanese In MangaLand and to my surprise i understood a lot of the grammar it was trying to explain and this was from later in the book that I've never read, more proof that you don't have to actively study the grammar to become fluent but I do agree that it can speed up the process although i wouldn't worry too much about it concentrate more on vocab in context.

Then when you have some spare time or fancy a change go find a good source for grammar I highly recommend Japanese in Mangaland for this as its easy to understand and the manga examples help lots especially for someone like me up untill a few months ago didn't even know the difference between an adjective and a verb in my own language :P

So to sum up don't worry too much about not knowing what the conjugation of this and that is or what the gerund form is you'll pick up a lot without even realising and if your thirst for knowledge increases and you want to know more 'then' go find some grammar explanations.

Anki stats update note: only issue with manually adding every sentences its taking forever to read 2000 lol really should have just imported all 2000 iknow sentences.

Deck created: 3.3 months ago
Total number of cards: 1115

Card counts
Mature cards: 560 (50.22%)
Young cards: 540 (48.43%)
Unseen cards: 15 (1.35%)

Correct answers
Mature cards: 96.4% (244 of 253)
Young cards: 85.4% (7691 of 9005)
First-seen cards: 86.7% (1042 of 1202)

The 1100 seen cards in this deck contain:

• 748 total unique kanji.
• Jouyou: 722 of 1945 (37.1%).
• Jinmeiyou: 5 of 287 (1.7%).
• 21 non-jouyou kanji.

Jouyou levels:

• Grade 1: 69 of 80 (86.3%).
• Grade 2: 143 of 160 (89.4%).
• Grade 3: 146 of 200 (73.0%).
• Grade 4: 109 of 200 (54.5%).
• Grade 5: 74 of 185 (40.0%).
• Grade 6: 62 of 181 (34.3%).
• JuniorHS: 119 of 939 (12.7%).

Personally i think some people don't realise how important it can be to exchange links to each others blogs there are many advantages and no reall drawbacks one of the main reasons can be to establish a community especially with like minded blogs for example blogs that write about language learning or there favourite TV series its a great help for your readers to find other great sites related to there interests we can all help each other receive more readers which I'm sure all of us would like otherwise what would be the point for the blog/site (unless you just use it as some sort of personal diary).

So if any blog/site owners would like to build there community and let there blog reach a wider audience so it can be enjoyed and help there readers find more great sites think about exchanging links with fellow blog/sites it only takes a few clicks :D

If you would like to exchange links with me feel free to leave a comment or send me an email tibul3 at gmail.com

Recently I've been thinking back to before I really started learning Japanese to a time when I thought that to learn a language you needed to be really smart or have it forced down your throat from a young age and also that other huge myth that a large amount of people (maybe the majority) still believe that you need to live in the country of the target language to reach any sort of fluency which i now know to be completly false and so does a growing number of language learners just checkout some more of the blogs on my blog list for some good examples.

As you can see I'm currently making some site changes decided to stick with blogger as my site host as wordpress blogger import was causing huge problems I've managed to find what i think is a nice looking template and fits the sort of things I like to write about etc so over the next day or so there might be the odd thing going weird or dissapearing but should all settle down shortly once I'm happy with everything :)

Well I thought that it was time I changed the name of the website as I plan to post about more than just my Japanese progress although thats going to be a big part of it but as I have many loves/ambissions changing the name of my site allows me to blog about much more including my love of Japanese culture (Anime, Manga, way of life etc) and daily life / self improvement.

Will also be moving the site to a new server shortly and migrating to wordpress as its just so much easier to find good templates.

While I'm at it an update on my current anki stats.

Deck created: 3.1 months ago
Total number of cards: 1069

Card counts
Mature cards: 496 (46.40%)
Young cards: 567 (53.04%)
Unseen cards: 6 (0.56%)

Correct answers
Mature cards: 96.1% (195 of 203)
Young cards: 85.3% (7211 of 8451)
First-seen cards: 86.4% (1006 of 1165)

The 1063 seen cards in this deck contain:

• 727 total unique kanji.
• Jouyou: 702 of 1945 (36.1%).
• Jinmeiyou: 5 of 287 (1.7%).
• 20 non-jouyou kanji.

Jouyou levels:

• Grade 1: 68 of 80 (85.0%).
• Grade 2: 140 of 160 (87.5%).
• Grade 3: 143 of 200 (71.5%).
• Grade 4: 107 of 200 (53.5%).
• Grade 5: 74 of 185 (40.0%).
• Grade 6: 58 of 181 (32.0%).
• JuniorHS: 112 of 939 (11.9%).

Just thought I would post a quick anki stats update 15 sentences a day going strong so far accept yesterday had trouble adding any.

Finally over 1000 cards :D I'm currently at the point were i can understand the odd sentences and quite a lot of words in shows also I'm reguraly recognizing words even though I don't know what they mean so i just need to solidify these I can't wait to see my progress after the next 1000.

Deck created: 2.9 months ago
Total number of cards: 1001

Card counts
Mature cards: 450 (44.96%)
Young cards: 551 (55.04%)
Unseen cards: 0 (0.00%)

Correct answers
Mature cards: 95.7% (132 of 138)
Young cards: 84.9% (6681 of 7868)
First-seen cards: 85.7% (945 of 1103)

The 1001 seen cards in this deck contain:

• 690 total unique kanji.
• Jouyou: 669 of 1945 (34.4%).
• Jinmeiyou: 4 of 287 (1.4%).
• 17 non-jouyou kanji.

Jouyou levels:

• Grade 1: 66 of 80 (82.5%).
• Grade 2: 136 of 160 (85.0%).
• Grade 3: 137 of 200 (68.5%).
• Grade 4: 103 of 200 (51.5%).
• Grade 5: 68 of 185 (36.8%).
• Grade 6: 55 of 181 (30.4%).
• JuniorHS: 104 of 939 (11.1%).

I'm pretty annoyed at myself because of my slacking off at Japanese I was doing great up until a couple of weeks ago when I just stopped adding new material to anki and not keeping up my immersion environment I've still kept up with my reviews every day and still watching/listen to Japanese most day but other than that I've been very slack with my studys.