Wondering how confident I should feel with the grammar, words, and overall concepts in each lesson before I move to the next. I don’t want to accidentally forget some of the things I didn’t spend as much time on and have to go back and learn it over again.
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Just my 2 cents, I finished Genki a bit over a year ago
vocab: put them into anki and do your best to not have leeches
grammar: if you do the workbook you are ok, the grammar presented in Genki will come up all the time so you’ll get it hammered on a lot
You’ll encounter everything in that book multiple times as long as you’re consuming Japanese. If you can recognize that special grammar is being used and can find it in your reference book, that’s good enough. Unless youre taking tests or talking in real time, the bar is set quite low.
I would study the vocab, grammar points and kanji with SRS and use the workbook for the chapter as a test. I usually got about 90% correct and would review what I missed before moving on. I spent 1 week per chapter and made it through both Genki books with this method. I found ch 12 to be the most difficult so I would probably break it up into 2 weeks if I had to do it again.
Somewhere between 75-85%. It’s very basic Japanese in terms of vocab, kanji and grammar so it’s going to be highly repetitive not only now, but in the future.
You can and should dabble in reading and listening outside of Genki (specifically material made for beginner learners) to help reinforce things and solidify concepts.