u/Fresh-Persimmon5473

My difficulty level: Beginner 41

Hours per day: I average 2 to 3 hours per day.

Comprehension: 70% to % 80

Videos left until the next level: 210

Time frame: one month until the intermediate stage

How I go about learning: repeat and repeat again. I add videos that are at 50% comprehension to a playlist for later re-watching.

Background: I study Japanese in college. I didn’t learn much as you might think. I studied Genki 1 and 2. That’s all. That was 7 years ago.

My thoughts: As of now I just watch every single video and move forward. I do repeat videos if I feel I didn’t understand enough. I do expect intermediate to be much harder. We will see how it goes.

Podcast: Nihongo con Taipei
Episode: 151

I am not consuming anything else at the moment. No tv shows, no anime. Nothing.

My ability to talk:
I can talk. I can introduce myself.
I can have small conversations.

Reading ability: I can read hiragana and katana.

It’s is nice to get to the next level. I have been doing 1 hour a day.

I am going to be honest. I am behind the road map and that is fine. I seriously doubt I know 3,000 or even 1,500 words.

I am on the beginner level on DF. Super beginner is easy enough. Podcast hasn’t quite opened up yet, but I am moving along.

Anyhow that is for this progress report. Everyone good luck. Maybe I will treat myself to a coffee.

Mainly I just have been focusing on CIJapanese content. So I don’t count anything I hear or do outside of it. For example, watch some anime just now, I simply don’t add it.

My current level:

I am working through beginner. I am on level 36. I am half way through the beginner level. I have 338 videos left.

My comprehension:

As I move forward It is slowly getting harder. But I understand enough to keep moving forward. I understand 70% to 80% of what I am seeing. If there is a video that doesn’t click at all, I just add to watch later. After a few times watching it.

Hours per day:

Averagely I do 2 hours a day. Whenever I have more time, I will do an extra hour.

My background:

As I said in previous post, I took japanese in college for two years. They gave me the class textbook ( it was small), I world memories the words I didn’t know. The classes were very basic. Also I did Genki 1 and 2. This was 15 years ago.

Therefore, I am a beginner with this site, but not to Japanese. I know katakana and hiragana. And a little bit of kanji. I can introduce myself. And say simply stuff, such as…I like sushi 🍣 lol 😂

The goal is to have a real conversation one day.