r/ajatt

My question is how long did it take you to start being able to understand basic stuff to the point where you could understand what was being said and not really miss much. For context i have 100 listening hours and 180 cards studied on Anki. I’m starting to be able to understand a decent amount of words that come up but I don’t understand full sentences and don’t really understand full thoughts even with the most basic stuff.

I’ve been studying Japanese for almost two years now, reached 22k cards in Anki, passed N1, and spent some time studying in Japan too.

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Lately though, I barely review my cards anymore. I don’t really feel motivated to keep up the daily SRS routine.

Part of me feels like maybe that’s fine? I can already use Japanese at a level I’m happy with, and at this point reviews feel more like maintenance than learning. I still consume Japanese stuff normally, just without grinding Anki every day.

I’m kind of considering stopping entirely, or at least not treating it like an obligation anymore.

For people who got to an advanced level: did you eventually stop doing SRS? Did your Japanese get noticeably worse afterward, or was regular exposure enough?

Hi I am new to japanese learning and now I want to work on my reading skills and as I am a heavy reel scroller my attention span is more like an adhd so please suggest me some shorter mangas and novels or light novels in japanese and it would be helpful if you give a link to that as well

Thanks

My college has a language requirement that I need to complete. Will it hinder me if I take a different language in school while doing ajatt?

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Since I don't have a really large vocab, it is really hard for me to do i+1 stuff. I often end up with 2 words in the same card. Sometimes the main sentence is x2+ longer than this sentence though. I mainly mine from yt listening practice videos and sometimes from anime.
I usually read the whole sentence and see if I still understand it.

And btw I feel like it is actually really hard to learn (recognizing) a word unless I put it on my anki unless I see that words really really often.

Should I handwrite each lesson or just read it and put the example sentence for each lesson on anki or just read without doing anything extra? Thanks.

I dont have any programming experience but I think for intermediate-advanced users this is a good way to keep motivation without breaking out of full immersion

I've been learning japanese for a year mostly watching tv shows with no reading abilities lol. I've grown to native level conversational but can't read. In january, i decided to change that. I then started learning Kanji using RTK. In march, I finished RTK and started reading audiobooks. but as i read, i get lost multiple time (#short attention span). But then i realized that while listening to Yuyu's podcast on spotify and reading the transcript, I never get lost cos it highlights what's currently being said. So I started building that for audiobooks.

The way it works is simple:

you upload an audio book and a pdf. then it matches each word to a timeframe in the audio. If you only have the audio book mp3, you can also upload that and it'll generate the text matching that audio. but if you only have a pdf, it won't generate audio for it (native voice is important!). Given that the app is in such an early stage, it doesn’t work well with heavy book/audio files. To avoid any issues, I’ve set the max audio size at 20mb and PDF at 10mb. there's already a book in there so you can try it out.

check it here: ondoku-khaki.vercel.app

There are some cosmetic features just to help in reading like tap word for dictionary lookup, send to anki, long-press words, intensive mode etc, but the main thing im after is the word-level karaoke highlighting. i'd love some feedback

I am using a translated version of Tae Kim's grammar guide and I encountered this translation (re-translated to english)
靴やシャツを買う > Buy shirt or shoes.

While in the original book the translation is > Buy (things like) shoes and shirt, etc...

It is indeed possible to make the exact same sentence in my native language but translator translated that japanese sentence into my native language as "Buy shirt or shoes" which differ from Tae Kim's original English translation.

Is it a big deal or no?

any news on when or if it will be up again?