Two or three 45-60 minute study sessions a day are a good goal. Example: Chunk A – vocab, kanji and dialogue; Chunk B – textbook; Chunk C – workbook.
Before studying the chapter, get the vocabulary and kanji (if any) down. Genki marks the vocabulary used in the dialogue, so it’s easy to prepare for.
Try reading the dialogue WITHOUT looking at the English translation. Try to guess the meaning from the pictures and the dialogue prompts. Check to see how you did.
Chunk A: Everyday practice vocabulary, kanji (if any) and dialogue, shadow the audio, review the previous day’s work… you can preview the exercises you’ll be doing so you can brush up on the vocab you’ll need.
Chunk B: Everyday work in one grammar point. Do the associated exercises in the textbook. If it’s a speaking exercises, do both parts.
Chunk C: Do the workbook exercises sometime later.
Don’t forget to do the reading and writing in the back of the textbook. You can get your writing checked on an app like HelloTalk. Do corrections and resubmit. Move on to the next chapter and repeat.
In the morning, I do about an hour and a half of kanji flash cards (25/day, one card for recognition and one for production). If you can get by with spending this much time on kanji without banging your head against a wall, I will say it has been worth it to me.
Throughout the day I run grammar drills on bunpro srs, and I add 5 new grammar points every day or so.
At night I do about a half hour of vocabulary srs.
Listening practice when I can, usually just watching TV without subs or listening to podcasts or YouTube videos in Japanese.
It’s a big time investment this way, but it gets you to a point very quickly where you can start reading.
30-60 minutes of grammar first thing in the morning. When I finish studying grammar, I do my Anki reviews for about 1 hour. After that, I read novels for 4 hours and mine from them. I finish the day with 1 more hour of listening with Japanese subtitles while mining and 3 more hours without subtitles, just freeflowing.
I wrote a report of my first year of study that covers this:
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Genki Study Plan:
Two or three 45-60 minute study sessions a day are a good goal. Example: Chunk A – vocab, kanji and dialogue; Chunk B – textbook; Chunk C – workbook.
Before studying the chapter, get the vocabulary and kanji (if any) down. Genki marks the vocabulary used in the dialogue, so it’s easy to prepare for.
Try reading the dialogue WITHOUT looking at the English translation. Try to guess the meaning from the pictures and the dialogue prompts. Check to see how you did.
Chunk A: Everyday practice vocabulary, kanji (if any) and dialogue, shadow the audio, review the previous day’s work… you can preview the exercises you’ll be doing so you can brush up on the vocab you’ll need.
Chunk B: Everyday work in one grammar point. Do the associated exercises in the textbook. If it’s a speaking exercises, do both parts.
Chunk C: Do the workbook exercises sometime later.
Don’t forget to do the reading and writing in the back of the textbook. You can get your writing checked on an app like HelloTalk. Do corrections and resubmit. Move on to the next chapter and repeat.
In the morning, I do about an hour and a half of kanji flash cards (25/day, one card for recognition and one for production). If you can get by with spending this much time on kanji without banging your head against a wall, I will say it has been worth it to me.
Throughout the day I run grammar drills on bunpro srs, and I add 5 new grammar points every day or so.
At night I do about a half hour of vocabulary srs.
Listening practice when I can, usually just watching TV without subs or listening to podcasts or YouTube videos in Japanese.
It’s a big time investment this way, but it gets you to a point very quickly where you can start reading.
30-60 minutes of grammar first thing in the morning. When I finish studying grammar, I do my Anki reviews for about 1 hour. After that, I read novels for 4 hours and mine from them. I finish the day with 1 more hour of listening with Japanese subtitles while mining and 3 more hours without subtitles, just freeflowing.
I wrote a report of my first year of study that covers this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/oulglf/eleven_months_ago_i_started_studying_from_zero/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf