After years of not-so systematic approach to Japanese, I have decided to use this platform to structure it more properly to make sure I know what to do and how to follow up.
Motivation
Started to be interested in Japanese early on, mostly because of anime and Yu-Gi-Oh. Later on I found out J-Rock and got into bands like ナイトメア or GazettE, something I listen to to this day.
As someone who inspires to become a diplomat, as well as a properly functioning polyglot, I have decided to make Japanese my sole “far from my native” tongue that I want to be good at. Hopefully Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, English, German, French and Japanese will be enough in my life and I will prioritize them.
Learning
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Finish RTK. So far I am down 200 in RTK sequence and know quite a few from my earlier attempts to study Japanese, so should take around 4-5 weeks to be comfortable. I combine Kanji Koohii, RTK Book and Kanji Study app for Android together
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Build the vocabulary. I played around with Anki, but found that I prefer to control my own study time. I found a Core6k Deck on Memrise with example sentences, so will go through that.
Alongside, I will finish Tae Kim Grammar Book to know where to put all of my new learned words (likely will read it before building the vocab)
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Chatting. I have a few friends in Japan, so will do my best to talk/chat with them as much as possible and ask them to correct me.
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Music. Will do this regardless, but will try to listen for what is being sung and occasionally translate the songs and sing along to develop pronunciation, vocabulary and confidence
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Speak, read, write, learn, chat, speak, read, write, learn, chat…