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1½ Years of Learning - A Retrospective

Feb 16, 2022

Immersion Textbooks Study Methods

注：This article took almost a whole month to finish, so the statistics here may represent an extra month of data due to my tardiness. During the writing of this article, the UK JLPT exams have also been un-cancelled for this year (yay!).

As I write this, I have just started studying using Shinkanzen Master N1 (新完全マスターN1), after having finished the N2 series (and learning that the JLPT exams in the UK are cancelled this year - again!), and was reminded as I went to buy my new textbooks that it has been just under a year and a half since I ordered my copy of Genki 1, and just about one and a half years since I began considering studying Japanese at all. With this in mind, I thought it might be a good time to reflect on what I’ve learnt so far, what resources I’ve used, things I enjoyed, and what I would do differently if I could start again from scratch. There have been a million posts on this subject before me, and there will probably be millions after, so take this as one experience and opinion in a sea of many (probably more qualified) opinions!