In the meantime, I had been reading some NHK’s News Web Easy and solving N4 mock questions with a couple of friends. 2 weeks before the N4 exam, just as planned. On June 15th, I finished the N4 tango deck. So, I jumped straight into the N4 tango deck and went at it for a bit less than a month. By the time I finished the kanji deck on May 15th(Fun fact : that's when I reviewed all 2200 kanji in a single day, hence the dark spot in the above image), I felt I was already past the N5 level. When I was about to finish the kanji deck, some of the kind people from the Japanese-English language exchange server in discord recommended the Tango Anki decks for my vocab prep. The fact that I was preparing for N4 in July didn’t stop me from learning the meanings of every single Jouyou kanji as I knew that I’d want to eventually try higher levels and that it’ll eventually be useful to walk into higher levels with pre-existing knowledge of the meanings of kanji. I figured getting the meanings and structures done with before going into reading was the way to go. I had tried a vocab deck simultaneously with the kanji deck, but learning the meaning, reading and structure all at once felt like an overdose of information. I adjusted the scheduling a bit and finished learning the meanings of all of the Jouyou kanji within 85 days, with a lot of aid from Hochanh, my source for mnemonics for kanji. I owe a great deal of my success to Anki. I’ve not skipped a single day of Anki since the 26th of Feb, 2021. Unfortunately, I lost the streak for two days, literally two days in. I downloaded Anki, got the RTK deck (Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig) and got started on Feb 22, 2021. Going through the site, everything suddenly seemed doable. The sheer number of kanji had always been my greatest fear. It didn’t take too much time for me to come across a very enticing title, “ Hacking the Kanji: 2,200 Kanji in 97 Days”. It wasn’t long until I realized that the insurmountable mountain of kanji must be dealt with eventually. Aimed for N4 in July.įinished Hiragana and Katakana (without much trouble thanks to the Tofugu pages) within 2-3 days and learned all the basic grammar within the first couple of weeks. Started learning Japanese in late Feb 2021. If you’re curious about the actual journey, here we go. If you want just the tools/materials I used, the above link should more or less satisfy you. As the saying goes, don’t fix what’s not broken. I pretty much stuck to the same methods for N1, but only turned the intensity up several notches. I made a post back then as well, introducing everything I found to be useful until N3. Just like when I cleared N3 with a score of 180/180, I’ve received a lot of messages/comments asking me about my language learning journey/tools that I used to get 165/180 in N1 within 1.5 years. It really gives me the motivation to continue doing my best.
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