Right now I’m semi-retired sit at home all day and don’t have to work, so no need to comment if I can actually stick to this schedule. Because yes, I can.
I spend an hour each morning on Pimsleur as soon as I wake up.
I spend 2-4 hours a night on Japanese From Zero an evening until I finish a lesson. (or however long it may take)
Once done with those books, I plan on Doing Genki Volume 1 and 2.
Once I’ve completed all of these, hopefully I’ll be 6 months in. How much in theory could the average person learn?
To give a little insight, my goal is to read Japanese Light Novels + Manga (with a dictionary of course) and watch Japanese dramas to replace and supplement my way to study/learn Japanese :).
Thank you in advance to anyone who comments!
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Tbh if ur goal is to read you can cut a lot of this bs out and be enjoying manga in 6 months
Step 1 is to throw this plan in the garbage
Step 2 is to speedrun kana
Step 3 is to install anki and a good vocab deck and start grinding graded readers with ur free 5 hours a day
Repeat until u can read manga and novels
There will be overlap with the Japanese from Zero and Genki. I did Genki at a rate of one chapter per week, Pimsleur for 30 minutes a day and a tutor 2x a week before a long business trip to Japan. I did burn out for a few weeks during Genki Ch 12. Other than that it worked well. I recommend graded readers also. You won’t be quite ready for native material (even for kids) at that point but the graded readers are a good alternative. I didn’t start enjoying native material until after I finished quartet 2 and the SRS for the Tango N3 book.
So you are gonna study 3-6 hours a day
This has been done by a lot of people on here so no problem I believe you can do this. I do 2 hours a day and with the workbook, I did the genki books in 7 months.
Then I read a book (Kiki’s Delivery Service) which took me a long time, more than 2 months. But I think I might have like, doubled my vocab reading that.
If you study exactly double what I did, in that time, you can finish Genki and also finish reading a book like that.
Sounds pretty nice.