Noticed over at On How to Learn Japanese that there has recently been a sort of quiz over at revTK asking questions on how your faring with the AJATT method, so I thought I'd join in.1. How many facts (production and recognition are only 1 fact) do you have in your SRS?1534 seen facts, 0 unseen. All sentences and a few vocab, review RTK separately via revTK2. What sentences have you and are you putting into your SRS?Probably half from smart.fm, some from various books e.g. UBJG, Japanese in MangaLand, some from various sources around the interweb3. Do you do production (audio/hiragana to kanji) and/or recognition (kanji to meaning) or something else? Is there an order (eg production and then recognition)?I do only recognition. Most of my cards are full Kanji bar the few expressions etc that are in hiragana only, in my answer field I have a quick translation, reading and audio if there is any4. Do you use any kind of special techniques when you review an item with your SRS? eg. dictation, role playing etc.Find it best to find multiple sentences using the word you'd like to learn helps a lot when learning difficult words also trying out the movie method recently5. How many cards on average do you add to you deck per day? Or if life is getting in the way of this, once things settle down how many do you intend to add per day?I think its around 8 a day not got anki with me at the moment will check later, I can add anywhere from 100 new sentences to 0 for weeks (I know not good)6. How much exposure (immersion) to Japanese do get (or intend to get) on average each day or week? In what form?Hard to say as it varies so much sometimes I get anywhere from 5-8 Hours other times I'm lucky if I get 1 hour going to try and change this soon so I'm at least getting 4-6 hours7. Describe your level including any strengths and weaknesses.I can usually understand something out of everything I read.Although I do have trouble with a lot of text from news, stories etc can read beginner material pretty well now though e.g. example articles written for JLPT lvl3-4 I can pretty much read the most of.I can understand anywhere from 30% to 5% when watching anime, Jorama etc8. Are you satisfied with your progress and the techniques you are using?Pretty satisfied, although I do believe I could have done much better if I stopped having so many brakes from adding new material and immersion.9. Are you satisfied with your level?Not at all.10. How far do you want to go with Japanese?Would like native like ability in reading, writing, speaking, and obviously understanding11. How confident are you of getting there?Extremely so12. From when you started adding items to your SRS, aside from your process evolving bit by bit, are there any major things you would do again differently if you could?Probably would ...

I wasn't sure were to start naturaly like a lot of people I looked for starter guides around the net and considered a Japanese course after much frustration and still no idea the best way to start I eventualy came across alljapaneseallthetime.com which really appealled to me and made a lot of sense especially when you relate it to how you actually learned your native language.So I started not exactly as suggested as I learned all the Kana first using Remembering The Kana which for me was a great motivational boost if i could learn these 100 or so characters i could learn any 6 days later I had finished. Then onto the Kanji 4 months later after some struggle with myself taking brakes and procrastinating I had completed Remembering the Kanji with this came a realization that Japanese was possible to learn and that I could do it all I needed was to stick with it.Now onto the sentences I've been going at them for 3 months or so now and have noticed great gains in my Japanese ability so far I can understand many simple sentences I can usually understand something out of most things I read and listen too and have moments of understanding all the time, although I'm a little dissapointed in myself as I have taken many brakes and slowed down always kept up with my reviews but still been slack unlike over christmas I powered through 100s of sentences in only 2 weeks I intend to get this moment back once my workload starts to calm down.I'm hoping to gain a good amount of fluency by next year and I'm sure this is possible If i can just keep up a good pace and improve my immersion environment more the main battle is with myself I can be a terrible procrastinator at time although I've improved at this a lot in the past few months. I also have many more goals and resolutions I'm going to improve / stick with over the year which I will talk about in a future article.