What do you think about my daily routine? (Started learning japanese 3ish weeks ago)

— Anki 20 cards a day

— Satori (サトリー) Reader (1-2 episodes/chapter per day for now)

— One (一つ) Minna No Nihongo (みんなのにほんご) lesson per day (or every other day) until I understand it + writing notes so I could look back on them for Satori Reader

— Watching anime episodes whenever (Initial D and I really like the show)

I just need to see what I should do for Kanji. I’m thinking about learning 5 kanji a day. I have been studying the radical stuff but I’m not sure if I should invest some more time into radicals anymore.

If you have any recommendations or suggestions for me then please tell me!

7 comments
  1. I decided to start reading (yesterday) because I kept on hearing how everyone wished they started reading earlier.

  2. In my opinion you really don’t need to do a certain number of “things” per day. If you feel like doing more chapters go for it. If not, then that’s fine.

    The issue with watching anime during immersion is if you aren’t getting comprehensible input then the immersion time is wasted. You should be looking up words you encounter in your immersion material using the Japanese subs.

    If you don’t do that, your immersion just becomes white noise, so I personally wouldn’t do that

  3. Just from an efficiency perspective I think spending more time on vocab, kanji and grammar in the very beginning is better than watching anime and reading stuff you don’t understand. If it keeps you motivated it is still a good use of time of course.

  4. It would be most effective to learn kanji with your vocab, but maybe you can look into wanikani

  5. I let Anki choose my cards and my wife, who is Japanese was horrified with the number of Kanjis I was trying to learn for a day. Her advice was to think kanji more like a puzzle and memorize the vocabulary and different pronunciations. But she is not a teacher, so I have no idea if that is the most efficient way. But it is working for me. I was trying to learn 5 as well and I reduced to 3, which is more effective for me.

  6. I’d do the anime/reader/etc. after finishing MNN, and also, those lessons are pretty long if you also have workbooks(which I highly recommend workbooks). I recommend trying to do only two lessons a week. Kanji will come with vocab over time. I wouldn’t sweat it too hard. MNN taught me a fair amount of kanji. Once you get used to the words a bit you can just take the furigana off your anki cards.

    Also 20 cards is a lot in the long run. I’d knock it back to 10 or 15. The reviews will get really out of hand over time.

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