On Wednesday September 21st, I made a Reddit Post stating my intention to start a daily live stream of my self study session in Japanese using my Memrise courses called “Suggested Guide for Japanese Literacy”. I’ve done two streams and they’ve been entertaining for me and had some positive feedback thus far such as motivating another to get back into studying and another finding my recall of RTK stories enlightening. Turns out I tend to talk a lot during these sessions and add some commentary to what I’m reviewing/learning.
While it has zero production quality at the moment, I do intend to continue this for the near future. What I may need to do is add time stamps to when I change decks during reviews and other significant events during the stream when it comes to the archived videos. Don’t expect to learn much in way of Japanese but you will see how I do my own self study in various areas of kanji, grammar, vocabulary and drama immersion.
“Daily” streaming still going on. Currently on JDI Basic - Zettai Kareshi ep 02. Next course will be SGJL 08 - Remembering the Kanji Optimized (2k1KO book 2 in RTK Order).
New week, still going. Been doing this since the end of September last year. It evolved from just reviewing a lot of due material, to collecting links to when I directly learn lessons, to actually creating a 30 hour video course for writing/recognizing Kanji from memory.
New week and I’m back to SGJL 08 - RTK Optimized part 2 lesson 52. Hopefully I’ll be able to finish this course this week and move back to grammar (Tae Kim pt 3 and ADoBJG pt 3).
New week and last couple days of January. Still on SGJL 08 - RTK Optimized part 2 which should be finished either this week or early next. Will be moving on to Grammar after that.
New week in a new month. Will likely finish up RTK Optimized Part 2 by tomorrow and move on to Grammar Part 3 (Tae Kim and ADoBJG). That area will involve copying over Tae Kim’s lessons and formatting them to Memrise in addition to fixing any typos or errors in the TTS audio.
New week (took yesterday off from streaming). Started Tae Kim Grammar part 3 and a Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar part 3 last week. Got a decent pace so I should be done with these by next week if all goes well.
After this portion, I’ll do a special recording of all the lessons from Tae Kim Grammar parts 1 and 2. Hopefully this proves popular in the long run and works well with Kana and Kanji videos I’ve already done.
New week. Should be finishing up Tae Kim part 4 this week. Started including reading transcripts as part of my review process. Basically, when a group of cards from a drama start popping up, I make a note then go read that part of the transcript (easy as it’s every 50 lines so about 1 page).
Finished prep-work on Core 2k/6k Optimized Part 4 so today I’ll be uploading audio for Zettai Kareshi ep 04 in preparation for that.
Still going. Took a three day hiatus due to a trip to Taiwan but getting back to it today. Should be finishing up SGJL 12 either tomorrow or Wednesday and moving on to JDI - Zettai Kareshi ep 04.
I stream about 3 to 4 hours a day. Pace yourself based on your own schedule though, not someone that happens to have the time to do what I’m doing. Even 30 minutes a day is better than doing nothing.
New week. Finishing up Zettai Kareshi ep 04 this week and decided to make a bonus Zettai Kareshi course that gets vocabulary from the first four transcripts (roughly 600 or so words). After that will be ADoBJG pt 04 while I continue work finishing up the Shinkanzen Master N4 bonus course to finish up the SGJL Basic set of courses.