Been immersing here and there sometimes, but barely. My ear picks it up a lot more naturally and easily lately, so I might get back into it. Seems like any structure I find gets destroyed within a couple months, so perhaps that’s not the way to study (even if that structure is a simple list of 7-10 methods to cover daily).
I just gotta base it on my interests; I’ll probably have to cut Anki except for using it to write Kanji… anyone else burnt for over a month and picked it up again to later find reasonable success (to you, by your own standards and satisfaction)?
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I dropped anki completely 8 years ago. I just pick up Japanese here and there and it builds up naturally. If you get bored just do something else, it’s meant to be a hobby.
I actually dropped Japanese completely for 5 years when I got addicted to dota. Which I played 7000 hours of. Now I’m completely burnt out of dota and fell into the vtubers rabbit hole. I’ve had 250 hours of pure listening practice in the past month and my Japanese listening comprehension has seen a massive growth. A lot of words that I knew got refreshed while watching vtubers. I’m suddenly able to understand pretty much everything in anime. A lot of it is just from immersion, and you’ll slowly get it. It’s not meant to be a race unless you are doing it for a job.