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 ...

Not done one of these In a while so thought it was about time after hopefully a few worries that I had now out of the way I can get back to going full force on my Japanese and over the last few days have increased my pace 10 fold.Finally completed all the sentences I mass imported from iknow core 6000 step 1 and have added a few more, also started working through iknow again as I still find that I retain information better when learned through iknow system.To add to this I got a nice motivation boost by accident the other day I decided to have a look at my copy of Japanese from ZERO volume 1 which I used before I discovered the AJATT/sentence method of learning to my surprise I could understand almost everything in the book except a few words that I need to learn i.e. the horrid days of the month. I know its not a hugely difficult book but a few months ago when I last had a look many of the chapters had things I needed to learn and much more words to boot so to me it feels like a great achievement to see how far I've come.It's looking back on old things that show you how far you have actually come otherwise you may never notice.Anki Stats,Deck created: 5.2 months agoTotal number of cards: 1484Total number of facts: 1484Card countsMature cards: 1050 (70.8%)Young cards: 419 (28.2%)Unseen cards: 15 (1.0%)Correct answersMature cards: 93.8% 993 of 1059Young cards: 87.0% 11205 of 12875First-seen cards: 89.7% 1411 of 1573The 1469 seen cards in this deck contain:771 total unique kanji.Jouyou: 744 of 1945 (38.3%).Jinmeiyou: 5 of 287 (1.7%).22 non-jouyou kanji.Jouyou levels:Grade 1: 71 of 80 (88.8%).Grade 2: 143 of 160 (89.4%).Grade 3: 147 of 200 (73.5%).Grade 4: 114 of 200 (57.0%).Grade 5: 78 of 185 (42.2%).Grade 6: 65 of 181 (35.9%).JuniorHS: 126 of 939 (13.4%).Not much increase in the Jouyou but I'm guessing thats because of the re-use of Kanji in the core 6000 series.

Well thought its about time I did a stats update seen as its been a while been listening to a good amount of Japanese recently and adding trying to add as many sentences as I could even with such a busy last few weeks.Not many new Kanji recently as have been adding a lot from Understanding Basic Japanese Grammer which lacks many new vocab.Deck created: 3.8 months agoTotal number of cards: 1222Card countsMature cards: 704 (57.61%)Young cards: 498 (40.75%)Unseen cards: 20 (1.64%)Correct answersMature cards: 95.6% (391 of 409)Young cards: 86.0% (8725 of 10143)First-seen cards: 87.7% (1144 of 1304)The 1222 seen cards in this deck contain:767 total unique kanji.Jouyou: 740 of 1945 (38.0%).Jinmeiyou: 5 of 287 (1.7%).22 non-jouyou kanji.Jouyou levels:Grade 1: 70 of 80 (87.5%).Grade 2: 143 of 160 (89.4%).Grade 3: 147 of 200 (73.5%).Grade 4: 112 of 200 (56.0%).Grade 5: 77 of 185 (41.6%).Grade 6: 65 of 181 (35.9%).JuniorHS: 126 of 939 (13.4%).

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 :PSo 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 agoTotal number of cards: 1115Card countsMature cards: 560 (50.22%)Young cards: 540 (48.43%)Unseen cards: 15 (1.35%)Correct answersMature 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%).

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 agoTotal number of cards: 1069Card countsMature cards: 496 (46.40%)Young cards: 567 (53.04%)Unseen cards: 6 (0.56%)Correct answersMature 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 agoTotal number of cards: 1001Card countsMature cards: 450 (44.96%)Young cards: 551 (55.04%)Unseen cards: 0 (0.00%)Correct answersMature 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.So I've decided starting today I will start my own 30 day challenge which i plan to add atleast 15 new sentences daily to anki no matter how lazy/tired/depressed I might be no more excuses just get it done aswell as increase my Japanese environment I will not be beat by my 'lazyness' NOT with Japanese.I'm also going to try to post on my blog more often and keep up with the chatter with the fellow Japanese learners on twitter