golyplot wrote:Since you mention Spy x Family, it's worth noting that Anya uses incorrect grammar, such as saying "daijyoubu masu" instead of "daijyoubu desu".
I did notice that a lot of the subtitles for her speech have pronunciation or grammar mistakes, so I figured as much and told myself that one day my Japanese comprehension will be good enough to notice what the original mistakes are! It might not even be that far away if they're basic stuff.
Japanese: Levelling up: yesterday I reached 4 on both Genki and WaniKani!
On Genki: lesson 3 was quite short and sweet, and as expected the grammar mostly wasn't new to me. Just a lot of new words.
I can't say I'm enjoying the pre-made Genki Anki decks much. Seems that the maker took the assignment of "make cards for all the words" a bit too literally and there are a lot of repetitive ones for time (1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3'oclock...), minutes past the hour, age (x years old), etc., plus some of the words just don't feel worth learning yet. And I'm just not a fan of single-word cards - partial-word sentence cloze cards are the way for me - although when you're still learning the basics there's often not enough understandable context for sentence cards. Which is one reason I think Anki only really starts to become useful once you're past the early stages, like where I am in German now.
For now I'm deleting liberally, but I might decide it's not a useful activity and just drop it for now, and maybe after a few more lessons make my own deck for words that I feel are important but not quite high-frequency enough to catch on "automatically". There are other ways to get extra practice with the Genki material, like this free lessons site I found the other day.
On WaniKani: I'm finally understanding how to use it properly. Intervals start at 4 hours, then 8 hours, then 24 hours, so study sessions should be planned around that. For example: new lessons at 8am, review at 12pm, review at 8pm. This is very well-discussed in their forums, but it would be nice if they made it clearer when you first sign up. Anyway it's feeling easier for the moment especially now that I'm getting into that routine, and I think I'm past the first of many humps.
German: Just the usual things. I've got back into using Language Reactor with YouTube, which I "boycotted" for a while because they don't support Firefox and keep lying about the support "coming soon", but at this point I care more about results than principles and it's great for input and sentence mining. Chrome is pretty much a necessity for the modern language learner now anyway, between extensions like that and things like speech input (used by Google Translate, DuoLingo, etc.) that don't work on FF.