This year I decided to take the JLPT N1 in December. To prepare I planned to read one hundred books, but that did not happen of course 😄 Books and Audiobooks I finished a total of 33 books in 2024. 32 of those before the JLPT (1st of December). 5 were audio books. So I did only manage to do about a third of what I intended. I blame real life....
In my previous post I said I wanted to read 100 books in japanese as preparation for the JLPT in December. The plan was split into three simple parts: read 1 book per week for 4 months read 2 books per week for 4 months read 3 books per week for 4 months That together with the 3 books I read before starting on the challenge would get me to 100 books read with even two weeks or so to spare....
I have been learning Japanese for quite a while now. Looking back at that post now I notice that I have made more progress this year than I realized. What happened since my last progress post I immersed a lot. I have now seen 822 episodes of anime and read 106 volumes of manga and 8 books. I have played VNs and games a bit, but didn’t really finish any. The fun ones are just incredibly long and feel like they need long sessions to enjoy properly....
This is still somewhat half finished, but since I don’t really feel like working on it and the questions answered here do come up all the time I think it is time to publish it. In general I recommend actually reading through all the settings and the official FAQ once. They explain a lot. What is the coverage number on decks? Its how much of the vocab in the deck you know weighted by the amount of occurences....
JPDB does not have an auto suspend feature for leeches like anki. If you are a patreon you can use a couple labs features together to approximate something similar. I reckon this is not useful for total beginners. For me it reduces my review load substantially. Setup In Labs Settings: Activate “show failed cards last” and “cycle through failed cards before showing them again”. Review Review as you normally do. At some point you will only have failed cards left....
Sometimes it feels like at least half the people learning Japanese are comp sci students or programmers. Given that I am one of those myself I know what it feels like when one has an idea for a project that will help them study japanese so much more efficiently. You may think: “Just a couple hours of work and efficiency will increase. It will be worth it.” It will be worth it for other people....
Hi, my name is Kampffrosch and I learn Japanese using various tools. Yesterday I hit a milestone of 365 continuous days of study using jpdb, so I thought it would be a good time to review my Japanese learning journey. the dark ages 2015 some friends I knew from school asked me if I wanted to take some Japanese classes with them. Since I was watching tons of anime at the time I thought “Sure, might as well learn a language while I am at it....