Stop being shit at learning Japanese - at least for a month

Flopped towards the last week cause soul searching instead. #BeingMelancholyIsMyHobby

I’ll get back to it.

Accountabilibuddies was great. A couple of us are going to keep meeting and trying to make progress in the great DK30 of life.

Very nearly failed for a whole week. Decided to embrace my inner Cave Johnson instead and bring it back.

MAKE THE DK30 RUE THE DAY IT THOUGHT IT COULD GIVE SELL LEMONS! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?? I’M GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! WITH THE LEMONS!

I accidently missed one day as I just plain forgot about it, but otherwise I’ve been keeping up with the Anki decks. The Anime watching and book reading have been complete train wrecks. I’m trying to work them in but am also trying to get my other project running which is more important at the moment than optimizing this.

I’m going to focus on sustaining the full completion of Anki each day and work in more shows as I can. I think I’ll leave my book in the bathroom and see if that helps me get around to actually doing it.

Victory is sweet, especially when said victory happens to be a victory apple turnover.

Good progress.

Right on schedule. Wasn’t up to watching Toradora yesterday but I caught up today.

The big news though is I’m now completely caught up on my Anki deck. Several hour+ sessions were needed to clear the backlog plus adding 10 new cards a day. 20 new cards added today and will continue with 20 each new day going forward.

Oddly this process of writing out the flashcards wasn’t part of the plan as I usually just do them with speaking only but slowing down to write them all out has really revealed some things I was overlooking.

Found an amazing site that does “reverse context” searches for language. Really helps to understand inflection when flashcards don’t include enough context. Hugely helpful

https://context.reverso.net/%E7%BF%BB%E8%A8%B3/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E-%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/%E3%81%A9%E3%81%86%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F%E3%82%93%E3%81%A0%E3%82%8D

It’s gonna be a loooooong month

First day - almost went off the rails right away. I was going to play videogames I didn’t even want to play just out of habit - setup a google calendar with my schedule instead - even scheduled rewards so I have things to look forward to!

Anki has 200 due cards and 20 new - so once that gets to 110 and finish EP1 of Villainess I can claim a victorious start.

Before - Wow this is waaaaaay worse than I thought it was…