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Recently I've started shadowing the sentences for cards that I miss during my sessions. Everywhere I look shadowing is one of the best overall methods for language learning, but i worry because the sentences are AI generated, not truly natural Japanese, so does that make shadowing them less than great? Or does it matter that the sentences I'm focused on are in the academy as opposed to a custom sentence or created in the fly.

Has anyone tried this? Was it effective? Was it not?

I tried googling it, but all I get is psychological thrillers of things clearly serious drama. Not a fun little comedy.

Please help

I've been studying for a while, on and off at varying levels of intensity. The last 6 months I have locked in, in a way that I never have. It has helped, but i've noticed something a little concerning.

I don't know if it is normal and staying the course will eventually break through these barriers, or if there is something I can do.

When I listen to Japanese at full speed, normally by listneing to songs, or sentences created for vocabulary words by an app, i can pick out some words, some times, but it's mostly just gibberish.

When I read, I can read it at full speed, but i'm not comprehending much if at all.

It is only when i take a breath and read slowly (sometimes with the translation open, sometimes not) then I get it.

the disconnect is concerning. If i can read it and understand it, I feel like it shouldn't be gibberish at full speed, i should recognize structures and vocabulary even if i can't put it together in real time effectively.

and i feel like reading at full speed (normally trying to keep pace with the app's reading of said sentence, I should understand more than I do.

Why is this? Is this soething that continued practice will eventually "break through", or is there something that i'm missing, or some action i should be taking?

any guidance would be very much apapreciated.

I've been grinding away at Miagaku. I have about 26 decks, most are small decks from different songs, or sources (textbooks, apps, general vocab I pick up every now and then, ranging from 15-30 cards each, and the Migaku Kanji and Academy decks that range anywhere from 80-100+ cards a day.

I have been grinding out the decks for about 6 months now, and have a decent handle on it. But I'm wondering if I should be doing more.

When I go through the deck, if I get the word wrong, I repeat the sentence out loud and write it in a notebook, or a physical flashcard if it's a word that is old that, for whatever reason, I didn't even recognize.

I go through the deck of old words I shouldn't have forgotten to begin with in the morning.

I go through my notebook and repeat the words added the night before (ranges from 20-40 depending on the day) according to a "brute force" method I've been working on to get them in my head better. and then go up and down the list a few times.

Then I get into the decks for the day in the main app, and repeat.

It's helpful, but I want to make sure I'm doing as much as I can. I'm getting better at reading the sentences through sheer repetition, but I'm not sure my comprehension is progressing like i wish it was, and my general ear is still horrible. Which makes me think I'm missing something important.

Has anyone worked out a more effective way to utilize the app to get better? Am I missing something?