#High level Comprehension fastest route????

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west nexus
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I recently finished JP1K Deck and have around 170 cards in 2.3k deck.

My only goal is to gain High level Comprehension of Light novels and Anime in the shortest amount of time.

These are the steps I think I should take.
**1. ** Grind Cure dolly videos and Pitch accent trainer for a week. Only passive immersion of condensed audio. 30 2.3k deck cards a day.
2. Still do pitch accent and Cure dolly videos daily but spend only 1hr max daily. **Add **Active immersion. Mine 50 cards daily.
3. Finish grammar and stop daily Pitch accent.
4. Consistent 50 cards daily and only LN and VN reading and 1 anime episode + condensed audio for the week.

Where do you see flaws? What would you do differently?

fluid mantle
# west nexus I recently finished JP1K Deck and have around 170 cards in 2.3k deck. My only ...

What I would do differently depends on your free time, but you remind me a lot of myself when I first started stage 1 (you're already ahead of that, great job!). I'll go in order of points.

  1. When you say grind, what do you mean? No matter how many videos you watch in a day, if your immersion time is low it won't click. Refold Japanese's grammar resource is called a primer for that reason--it introduces you to certain key concepts in a concise way, then has you immerse more and revisit it. I did what you're describing, and I'll admit that CD videos are a little addictive. Her explanations feel so logical that it seems like it'll all stick forever. This is an illusion. No matter how logical it appears, you simply won't truly grasp what she talks about until you have an immersion foundation to reference and think, "Oh, that's what was going on!" Because of this, don't delay doing normal immersion, even in the first week, to grind Anki and grammar. Your enjoyment will plummet (been there), and your retention will drop too (also been there). 30 cards a day is a lot. You're past the 1000 words mark now--the words you learn won't be as common, and it takes longer to acquire them as a result. You'll risk dropping your retention, and increasing your Anki time.

  2. I didn't mention it in the last point, but pitch training is good. If you have access to a correction source, even better. But you won't need an hour. 100 minimal pairs on Kotu over 2 weeks is more than enough to train your ear as a start. Same point on CD as before. Additionally, mining this much is simply not feasible for most people, for a number of reasons. I'll link this message from Shiki, because it answers why.
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  1. Ignoring daily cards, if reading is your goal this is fine. I'd still recommend more listening than that because you'll struggle to read and parse sentences in your head at a good pace without an idea of how words and phrases sounds, but focusing on reading per your goals for the language is totally alright.
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The caveat to all of this is the time you can commit. 30 cards a day can be done without doing more harm than good, if you have the immersion time to back it up. And, at max, you shouldn't spend more than 90 minutes on Anki even if you can immerse 6 hours a day. 50 isn't feasible no matter what for the reasons I said. If you really feel up to that task, build up to it slowly, month by month. This is a marathon, not a sprint, and no one wants to see a burnout happen. A scant few have done 50/day successfully, and it's so much better for your learning journey if you find out you're one of them by getting there slowly than it is to quit because you dove in headfirst and found out you're not. By the way, that's no personal critique--Anki just isn't fun once you get into the flow of immersing.

west nexus
fluid mantle