Just a motivational tale! I stopped actively studying for about 8-12 months and lost my Anki decks for everything. I didn’t have much but about 700 words learnt and maybe 80 kanji. Recently started from absolute scratch and despite not having studied for around a year, I’ve been able to do about 40-70 new cards a day and I’m remembering about 70% of them first time, and getting almost all the rest after a second pass. Sometimes a Kanji will take a few times to connect to the word, but a lot of Kanji I’m recognizing first time also.
Basically don’t fret if you’ve taken a long break, all the things you “kind of knew” have sat dormant and you’ll strengthen that memory 10x quicker than learning it from scratch. The daily reviews are going to bite me but I should get back to where I was pretty quickly
by Prodigle