How do you measure your studying time?

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1. I use an app called Toggl. Whenever I start reading or watching something, I start a timer on there. Then whenever I stop, i stop the timer. The app then tracks the time for you.

2. I don’t personally track time, but I’m guessing its one of three things:

   1. Track time (via app, writing down daily how many hours, etc)
   2. They have a set routine (X hours a day, everyday -> Easy to calculate)
   3. Estimate base on feel (“I read X amnt of books = Y amnt of hours”)

3. When I was studying for N3 and N2 I track studying time by number of book pages. Now that I finished studying N2 I’m just reading light novels for fun and tracking nothing 😀

4. The people who make those posts are nerds that specifically track the hours cos they enjoy it

5. I use a study app called forest – you grow trees as you study and they donate real trees.

   I’m not a hardcore tracker but it helps me with accountability.

6. I study everyday consistently for roughly the same amount of time, so just take the amount of hours spent per day multiplied over how many days. 100 days at 3-5 hours a day is an average of 400 hours. I don’t track my time either.

7. I wouldn’t consider reading manga to be studying. It’s learning—something far better than studying. Studying grammar and vocab flashcards are mere preparation for learning. Input is where the learning happens.

   If you want to track anything, I recommend tracking hours inputting native Japanese. Everything else is a sideshow.

8. I have a piece of paper and I write down my study times.

   I keep all the old papers in a stack.

   Anyway I study exactly 2 hours a day every day since Feb 7 2020, therefore, it’s simple to calculate my total study time.

   After/if I quit JP I can probably throw the stack of paper into a river so it’s like a mandala or something.

9. Unless you really track all your time you will only have a rough estimate.

   I know I do daily :

   * About 15 min of duo lingo
   * About 45 min of Anki
   * About 30 min of Wani Kani + Kanji app
   * About 1 hour of structured class (Busuu before, Udemy now)
   * At least 30 min of immersion

   So that’s 3 hours per day minimum on average. I started last March so roughly 210 days time 3 hours a day = 630 hours.

   I’m probably high N5, low N4 now. I did register for N4 in december even if I don’t think I can pass it right now to give me the drive to keep studying.

10. I manually log things, although most of my “japanese learning time” is not really “study time”. I log how many anime episodes I watch with JP subs or no subs, and I log how many japanese characters I read (For example, if I read a full book on my kindle, I then open that book on pc, copy paste the main text to a character counter which excludes punctuation and such, and log that). Then I divide anime episodes by 3 and read characters by my reading speed of that month (This is basically under estimating, since it usually takes me 30 mins or more to watch a single episode of anime, mostly because of pausing to lookup things in a dictionary, or repeating sections multiple times to try and catch some sound I didn’t quite catch, and is also undersestimating for reading since I very often get a bit distracted or think about the story while reading, and the “reading speed” I divide by is more or less my “top” reading speed).

    I also log japanese videogame playtime (So far I’ve only played pokemon scarlet and 20 hours of persona 5 in japanese). Except for VNs, since I texthook those I log characters for them and also divide by reading speed (I just log the number from the texthooker page after every session).

    I use a JPDB-stats website from the JPDB discord that gives an estimate on time spent reviewing to log SRS time (It’s based on the date+time of each review, like if you had 100 reviews across 10 minutes one day it’ll count somewhere between 9 and 12 minutes. It gives me around 20-40 minutes per day).

    I manually log time for the N2 textbook I’m going through.

    Anime, reading and SRS make up like 90% of my logged hours. There’s a bunch of things I don’t count and I don’t worry about them much (Like asking or answering questions in various forums, chatting in japanese somewhere, doing mock N2 tests, reading japanese tweets on twitter, etc etc), I just think of my “logged” hours as a minimum I know I’ve spent (I’m currently around ~900h).

11. I don’t track it but I’ve been learning since 2014. I think it’s easy to estimate a large amount of hours considering I’ve been pretty consistent with it

12. I don’t, I just know that I started in august 2020