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I've been back from Sorrento for a bout a week now. The holiday fell in the two weeks above. I did take a Japanese book to read and Hugo's German to study but there wasn't time to so much as open either!
As for the studying that did get done ... Well I managed to activate all of the iKnow sentences in my deck, so now I just have ~10,000 reviews to see to My main words deck has ~1800 words left to review but the sub-deck that I'm actually actively working on now is all caught up.
I've found a reasonable source of Japanese drama with Japanese subtitles (and sometimes English subtitles) available. Often only a few epsiodes of any one series are available, but as it takes me so long to work through them, that's OK. So once I finished コールセンターの恋人 I started on ヤッさん. Only the first episode is available but it's taken me 90 minutes of effort to work through the first 12 minutes of episode, so I'm good for now!
In my tutorial before the holiday we'd been working through the emperor's "thinking about abdication" speech. There was obviously no tutorial when I was away and there also wasn't one the following week (because of the bank holiday) so I'm planning to finish working through it next Monday and then get back to みんなの日本語中級.
As there are no Japanese lessons at work, we've all been meeting in the same room and working individually during Tuesday lunch times. So far I've just been doing bits and pieces but this week I worked through bits of "500 Essential Expressions". It's a bit like 新完全マスター, except that the layout is a little different.Working through it with no help and no dictionary and no internet was quite eye-opening, so I'll have to find some time to review what I've done so far and fix up the lacunae. I've also tried a bit of Power Up Your Kanji, with similar results.
My reading of NHK News has dropped off a bit in the last few weeks, so I'm going to make a concerted effort to kick start that (i.e. it's the next thing I'm going to do today as soon as I finish this update!).