It went like this.
Jan 25: I should learn Japanese.
Start learning the kana, get motivated cause it's so easy.
Start researching how to learn languages.
Jan 27: Wow, I've spent the past two days reading about language learning. Develop irrational (if not warranted) aversion to textbooks.
Feb 4: Start Anki.
Feb 7: 1.2 million hours of research later, realize I'd already be fluent if I'd focused on learning instead of learning how to learn.
Feb 8: Research more. Find Kodansha Kanji Learner Course (KKLC), start it.
Feb 9: Making great progress. Japanese is easy!
Mar 2: ... Switch to Spanish.
Apr 19: Present day. I did continue reviewing Japanese and learning a few new kanji a day in Anki until April 4th, mostly cause I had a streak going. Spent a total of about twenty-five and a half hours (22m/day avg) learning Japanese. (Probably 20 times that reading about learning Japanese.)
I have a 48 day streak of Spanish study; about 17 hours since Mar 2 (~21m/day avg), 11 hours of that in Anki. On April 5th--after realizing that despite knowing like 400 Spanish words, I didn't know any actual Spanish--I quit Anki and switched to Assimil Spanish with Ease (1987), which I like better. Ten minutes in Anki, even though I enjoyed it, felt like a lifetime.
I'm also using the LR method with Harry Potter, where I listen in Spanish to the audiobook and read in English.
I may use,
- Language Transfer Spanish
- Superbeginner Dreaming Spanish
- Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish
- Destinos
- Extr@
I'd like to get my average time per day doubled, to 45m a day of Spanish.