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@why @vriska my problem is that everything still sucks massively and it's still extremely dumb and unintelligent
Wanikani is probably one of the better SRS software out there and I still hate it because the lessons unlocks are extremely unreasonable so you can easily get to 2000+ reviews and the still will still be pushing for lessons. If you stall at level ups you'll have hundreds of lessons. Fucking hell
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tadoku.org has some decent short readers at a variety of levels you can use to practice. It's a nice way to ease into it.
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Other than going to a language school actually in Japan I think the best option is to just get basic grammar and words down and start reading as much as possible. At least that's how it's been for me. Flash cards help but I focused on just that way too much before and got nowhere.
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@Tsuki @vriska @why
The problem is, here's the ideal
"Here's some kanjis to SRS, here's some vocab to SRS, here's some grammar"
Okay, now that you passed this level in the SRS and you have read the grammar exercises, here's some reading exercises that you should pass by with this knowledge
Okay, now here's some exercises
Rinse repeat
We don't even have that much
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Genki goes through N5 - N4 grammar/vocab/reading/listening chapter by chapter but I didn't make it very far into them. It was more enjoyable for me to just learn stuff as I encountered it.
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@Tsuki @vriska @why yeah but textbook is non-interactive, dumb, no SRS, no teacher to go along with it, etc
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that's probably why it didn't work for me. it seemed pretty geared for a classroom setting with most of the exercises requiring a partner.
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@Tsuki @vriska @why the majority of school textbooks sucks in the first place. You need an above average teacher to go along with it to actually learn properly
I went to adult school to get my advanced math to go to college IT program. About 8 fucking months it took me
The textbook sucked. Barely explained anything, only explained one way and suddenly dropped super hard shit that I had no idea how to approach
I was mostly stuck with this women teacher and she was TERRIBLE. It waited 1 hour and a half to get the answer to my questions, even just a "is this correct?". The lines were insane. Also her explanations would go on and on and on and my mind would just melt. Occasionally I was in the class of this dude teacher, and it was pretty good...
I went to the principal and of course dude wouldn't believe me but he let me change main teacher. I went from going full time to only the afternoon and I basically cleared the rest of the program in a short time. His explanations were short, clear and he didn't have a massive waiting line, in fact, his waiting line was almost always empty
Anyways, classes mostly sucks, textbooks are even worse. You need a good teacher to go with the textbook or else it's useless
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@Tsuki @vriska @why Anyone like these stories of mine? More textbook woes
The last mandatory French class I did in college, because in college here you have basic courses like French, gym (yes, gym), philosophy and more that you have to take with your program, what a nightmare... Well, that class was done online, and it was at your pace. You still had a time limit and... well, the term was over, I barely did shit and I had 3 weeks to do 3 whole modules and read like 3 books and 3 assignments. F U C K
So I made up a schedule, read x amount of the book every day and etc
The textbook... I don't even know what the 100 pages textbook said. It was mostly pointless. I pinpointed the page that told you the "technique" or whatever the fuck it was that you needed to apply, and I checked the text examples and that's it. I used perhaps like 10ish pages out of the 100 or so pages lmao
I can't believe I passed that class and I can't believe I did the big exam, that assumed you were pretty much finished with that final class, where you had to apply some of those techniques... when I haven't even started it yet. I passed somehow
What in the fuck was college, man
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Most of my textbook use in university tech classes was ctrl + F to find one specific useful part in a sea of trash. I learned a lot from my networking textbook but I was also pretty interested in the subject so it wasn't awful to just read.
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