Day 5: Implementation of new study plan!

Another late night. I wanted to get started on Day 5, but it's so late that I think I'm only going to be able to finish Anki and maybe one or two JapanesePod101 lessons. And if I do finish the lessons, I probably won't write them up until the morning.

I'm excited about the new implementation, except that now that I look at it, the amount of things I need to accomplish seems a bit unwieldy especially for the Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule. I'll see how it works through these two days (Day 5 and 6) and maybe revise it again on Sunday.

Also, I think I'll start off each day with the day of the week in Japanese and maybe some phrases from the previous day, just so that I can actually use what I'm learning in a meaningful way (rather than just keeping it on note cards and Anki).

I've been thinking about going back to the older lessons of Japanesepod101 to the Nihongo Dojo series since it seems to be more structured and for those newer to Japanese. I think I'll go back to that series once I've completed lessons 1-25 of season 4.

Day 3: Japanese Learning Communities

I've been looking to join some sort of Japanese language learning community. There are several forums that I'm considering becoming active in, and then there's also this thing I found called Smart.fm . It's a study tool where people create vocabulary lists, etc. It seems like Anki, but more social to me. I think it's amazing how many Japanese language resources there are out there on the internet today. There are also a lot of sites for penpals through Skype/IM. I'm not sure if I'm comfortable enough to talk to a native Japanese speaker or even just talking to any English-speaking stranger over Skype as I'm a bit self-conscious. However, in the future, I'll consider using these tools to help further my learning and exposure to Japanese.