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Do you find tracking the time that you study as opposed to writing about your studying is more helpful?

Day 9:
-Anki (vocab + kanji) + KKLC: 14:55
-Katakana Practice: 11:05
-MnN Kaite Oboeru Bunkei Renshuu Chou (Lesson 3): 7:36
-MnN Main Textbook (Lesson 3 Exercises): 9:20

Total Time (Day): 42:58
Total Time (Cumulative): 7:19:40
Total Days (January): 10

Day 11:
-Anki (vocab + kanji) + KKLC: 16:39
-Hiragana Practice: 8:18
-Katakana Practice: 10:36

Total Time (Day): 35:34
Total Time (Cumulative): 7:55:14
Total Days (January): 11

Day 11:
-Anki (vocab + kanji) + KKLC: 26:19
-MnN Main Text (Bunkei, Reibun, Renshuu A, Renshuu B 1-8): 30:28

Total Time (Day): 56:48
Total Time (Cumulative): 8:52:02
Total Days (January): 12

Day 13:
-Anki (vocab + kanji) + KKLC: 26:23
-MnN Main Text (Renshuu B 1-4): 9:50

Total Time (Day): 36:14
Total Time (Cumulative): 9:28:16
Total Days (January): 13

Day 14:
-Anki (vocab + kanji) + KKLC: 18:56
-Hiragana Practice: 10:44
-Katakana Practice: 5:07

Total Time (Day): 34:47
Total Time (Cumulative): 10:03:03
Total Days (January): 14

Day 15:
-Anki (vocab + kanji) + KKLC: 17:56
-MnN Bunkei Renshuuchou (Lesson 4): 25:05

Total Time (Day): 43:02
Total Time (Cumulative): 10:46:05
Total Days (January): 15

Day 16:
-Anki (vocab + kanji) + KKLC: 11:55
-Katakana Practice: 15:23
-Hiragana Practice: 4:32

Total Time (Day): 31:50
Total Time (Cumulative): 11:17:55
Total Days (January): 16

Day 17:
-Anki (vocab + kanji) + KKLC: 18:22
-MnN Workbooks & Section A: 31:05

Total Time (Day): 49:57
Total Time (Cumulative): 12:07:52
Total Days (January): 17

Goals Through 01/24/2021

• Minna no Nihongo - Lesson 4
  
  • Main Textbook Drills
  • Main Textbook Exercises
  • Shokyu de Yomeru
  • Choukai Tasuku
• Kodansha's Hiragana Workbook
  
  • Lessons 4-8*
• Kodansha's Katatana Workbook
  
  • Lessons 4-8*
• Programmed Intro to Literary Japanese - O'Neill
  
  • Section I - General pgs. 1-5

Ok, I've experimented with not posting my progress here for about a week, and it worked ok, but I feel like it might work better posting more often (but not necessarily daily). I got through a lot of the katakana workbook this week, but not much of the hiragana workbook. I feel ready to move on and just start picking up Minna no Nihongo again though, so I'm gonna move away from the kana workbooks (unless a tricky kana shows up). I feel like I've gotten enough of the basic stroke order down that I should be fine with most (if not all) kana that I end up needing to write in MnN and beyond. I needed most of the work to be done on katakana reading practice anyway.

Unfortunately I did not get much of a chance to do anything to complete lesson 4 of MnN, but I will tie up that loose end this week as well as moving on to lesson 5. I'm going to have a few bonus days off this week, so I think I might be able to move into lesson 6. But no big deal if I don't.

As far as Bungo is concerned, I've completed Section I, and so far I am liking the textbook! It reminds me a bit of Biblical Hebrew: A Text and Workbook by Kittel, et al. in that it is very inductive. I find this approach fascinating, and easier to digest that the reference grammars passing for "textbooks" that are the usual fare for Classical Japanese. I'll start moving into Section II - Pronouns this week.

Total Time (Cumulative): 16:27:55
Total Days (January): 23 (-1)