So I’ve started on Pimsleur’s series 2 to listen to on my commute, which seems more challenging than the first set, or else I’ve just been way too tired while listening to them, because I keep having to repeat lessons, and I’m still sort of only about ~70-75% correct on lesson 4, but I’ve been bouncing between repeating 4 and 5 because it’s just too boring to re-listen to the same lesson too many times in a row.

Got through all 482 words on readthekanji.com’s N5 set with about 85% accuracy for first time viewing, which isn’t bad, but I’m still reviewing those too, so hopefully that will improve. Started on N4, and I seem to average a 60% accuracy on N4 words, though.

Started reading through Card Captor Sakura again, so I’m on volume 2. Last time I tried it, I was able to “read aloud” fast enough to flip pages in reasonable time, but I was finding I still was getting only maybe 25% of the meaning, so it was hard to stay interested. This time I’m still not getting the full meaning, but between knowing the story and knowing enough of the words, I’m probably around 50% full-understanding, and I’m actually picking up on the meanings of some words while reading, so that’s pretty exciting to me. It’s kind of hard to read Touya’s and Kero’s lines sometimes because they both use different sorts of slang to Sakura or Tomoyo, who speaks pretty formally. I like having the contrast, though.

I felt like I noticed a slight improvement in my speaking when I had my private lesson on Monday, too, which is probably due to Pimsleur.

I’m thinking of trying to add a bit of textbook study to my routines, but haven’t worked out what can really fit with my schedule right now. I have a couple of old 3級 JLPT prep courses (Complete Masters and another one) though also was considering just reworking through my old 日本語中級J301 book.

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