Hey yall! Im just starting to attempt to learn Japanese once again (did about a semester in highschool plus a little when I was young) and was curious on the answers yall would give to some questions.
For some context, im learning Japanese through the Adventures in Japanese textbooks and being tutored through it by my mother (who is a native speaker and a japanese teacher at a highschool). Ive been going at it for a couple weeks now and ive been using anki as well.
The questions and concerns are:
1. How would you recommend a study plan for both 4hrs a day and then something more like 1-2 hrs a day (for busy school days) and how often should I sit down with my teacher every week.
2. Anki has been helping me recognize words but im really struggling to recall them. Should I try creating two flash cards for each vocab, one from japanese to english and vise versa?
3.Are there ways you guys recommend learning to speak the language better than just creating conversations with myself?
4. Ive chosen my method of language immersion to be through music and subtitled tv shows, but are there better methods and should I be powering through media without subtitles instead?
Ofc, if there is anything else, I would greatly appreciate it, thank you so much in advance!
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