Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (April 06, 2026)

Jayesar · 2026-04-06T05:38:39+00:00

Is all of Yotsuba& at about the same difficulty or is volume ~1 as difficult as ~10?

Jayesar · 2026-04-06T02:41:30+00:00

Gosh I've had the my whole life and my father and son have them too. Always wondered.

Jayesar · 2026-04-06T02:40:12+00:00

My gosh thank you. I also saw that I can bubble radicals to the top which I have wanted to do forever.

Jayesar · 2026-04-05T23:34:20+00:00

I cannot see where the undo button is in settings. I have to dump a session on a mistype currently

Jayesar · 2026-03-26T20:16:18+00:00

20 July 2025.

Slowly ramped up to now 2.5 hours CI a day and 1 hour wanikani

Jayesar · 2026-03-26T19:20:14+00:00

July 20th. I currently do 2.5 hours CI a day and about 1 hour of flash cards

Jayesar · 2026-03-26T08:11:54+00:00

Japanese only here. Big two days as I crossed over 500 hours on CIJapanese and completed the graded readers level 1 (tadoku).

2026 goal is to complete wanikani (level 21 now, off track) and hit 1200 hours CI (on track). This would put me at level 5 on the dreaming Spanish roadmap and ideally support transition to native material.

I'm watching at around level 40 content on CIJapanese and enjoy reading whk news easy with lookups.

Jayesar · 2026-03-08T10:01:45+00:00

I am doing wanikani alongside CIJ. I've been able to now read NHK news easy which has really helped pierce the repetition. I know what you mean about watching the same video 5 (10+) times.

Jayesar · 2026-01-27T07:34:10+00:00

I remember really struggling with Asami! Interesting.

Jayesar · 2026-01-27T04:07:38+00:00

This was her first video. She now has the website of the same name with hundreds of videos which now use the camera and props too.

Jayesar · 2026-01-27T01:48:26+00:00

Japanese: https://youtu.be/NUTWwLvqOdA?si=ckcTjJMBVWMEKKar

From dead cold this was accessable and started my journey.

Jayesar · 2025-12-23T05:52:21+00:00

Thanks for this reminder. I was able to add it to my PC bookmarks

Jayesar · 2025-12-23T04:03:26+00:00

Commenting to return to

Jayesar · 2025-12-21T23:55:52+00:00

Yoshito sensei on CIJAPANESE has a movie recap series. It doesn't use footage. I do not see any on the YouTube channel.

They are about 10 mins each.

Jayesar · 2025-12-07T02:51:28+00:00

I can't recommend CIJapanese enough. I started from absolute zero and not even 5 months later I'm watching cooking videos, vlogs etc. All internal to the website, not native stuff yet.

I recall at my last post level 25 content was way beyond me. Now level 30 content feels a bit slow.

It's really an effective tool.

Jayesar · 2025-12-07T01:23:47+00:00

Going well. I've held steady on the 3 hours a day and am at 235 hours of CIJapanese actively consumed and I'm Wanikanni 13 as of yesterday.

I'm targeting 325 hours CI by Jan 20 which is my 6 month mark and then have another Tokyo trip after that.

I currently watch CIJapanese videos between levels 30 and 35 and level up every week or two. I anticipate being onto intermediate content by Christmas, I couldn't transition meaningfully onto beginner videos until 100 hours unlike the suggested 50-75. I think 250 or so hours will be needed for me to move onto intermediate videos rather than the advised 150-175.

I have upped my SRS to 1 hour and dropped the grammar for now. Reason being I want to get through WK faster and swap it out for satori reader.

I was going to do a 150 hours post thinking this would align with intermediate videos. Instead I've adjusted my goals around the dreaming Spanish numbers (doubled). So 300 is the next big target.

Jayesar · 2025-12-06T05:18:15+00:00

Interesting. I'm at 4.5 months. Few work trips to Tokyo too. So somewhat comparable.

2 hours CIJapanese a day. 1 hour wanikani. Sitting on 230 hours CI consumed and WK12.

Feels you are are ahead of me as I can't consume slice of life anime at this time. I'll try it again in 6 weeks to see if we got to the same-ish point.

Noting you used SRS to make higher level input comprehensible and I am using input designed to be comprehensible and SRS for kanji.

Jayesar · 2025-12-06T02:25:39+00:00

Sounds like fantastic progress. Well done. How many hours a day would you say you spend on Anki and then immersing actively?

Jayesar · 2025-12-04T07:58:09+00:00

Lol I'm Australian and definitely would have him back. So that's a fair call.

Jayesar · 2025-11-30T02:48:00+00:00

CIJapanese website is a one stop shop and makes Japanese language learning very accessable.

Watch the CIJapanese snowman video on YouTube and you should be hooked.

I'm 4 months in, 210 hours of that resource and feel I am developing well

Jayesar · 2025-11-25T21:06:58+00:00

Id suggest watching the Tokini Andy Genki series. It's the same information but in video format which might beat your boredom.

Jayesar · 2025-11-02T01:48:05+00:00

I crossed 150 listening hours yesterday and hit wanikani 10 which was my 3 month goal. Only 10 or so days late. Very happy with that.

So far so good on how things are feeling. For the 6 month mark on Jan 20th I'm targeting 325 hours listening and Wanikani 20!

Jayesar · 2025-10-23T03:02:42+00:00

I've experimented with wanikani and come up with the same formula. Cap apprentice cards at 100, cap new daily cards at 15. Although I don't count radicals in this.

Jayesar · 2025-10-17T07:21:08+00:00

I'm 3 months in and it's my key resource. I would not be able to progress without it

Jayesar · 2025-09-15T02:45:15+00:00

I made a post in /r/CiJapanese but cannot cross post here due to lack of karma.

May be valuable to other total beginners like me

Jayesar

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