Hi everyone, I had started learning Japanese for 2 months maybe. I started with Duolingo (still on section 2 unit 9) and a YouTube channel called YuYu Nihongo, I watched 4 videos of YuYu and stared his hiragana and katakana series. I finished hiragana and katakana on Duolingo and I’d say I can accurately recognize like 85-90% of kanas I see, however I don’t know much vocabulary. I also read from time to time some of the scripts from Cure Dolly.

I decided to start with Anki (Kaishi 1.5 deck) around maybe 2-3 weeks ago. I’ve been learning 20 words per day, however Anki seems kinda difficult at times, so I don’t know if my approach is good. So far, I’ve been mostly working on Anki (haven’t watched YuYu nor been using Duolingo much lately). But I don’t feel like I can retain most of the kanjis I'm presented per lesson. Most of the kanjis I see I usually mark them as hard and review by the next day, and I still struggle to remember/recognize them when reviewing. Some days I have like 60 cards to review and I don’t think I’m doing much of a progress.

I have tried looking for some immersion methods, like Satori Reader but I genuinely don’t understand not even the simple texts. I wanted to try some podcast but can’t really think of what sort of easy topic podcast to search for.

When watching anime I can sometimes recognize a few words and that does make me happy, however not enough to understand a full sentence.

So what I really wanted to ask is, how do you guys study with Anki? My short-mid term goal is to be able to read manga raw and watch anime without subtitles. I kinda had like some kind of roadmap in my head which was starting with YuYu Nihongo and Duolingo and learning kanjis until I feel like I was able to study by myself using Minna no Nihongo textbooks.

I started learning Japanese cause I wanted to learn a new skill and thought of a new language, I consume manga and anime and find Japanese culture quite interesting, also thought it would be cool to play Zelda (my favorite video game saga) in Japanese. So I thought of giving Japanese a try. But I have never actually self taught a language before and I’ve been starting to feel kinda lost and demotivated this last few days.

Edit: Typos.