Sort of forgot that hardbound novels weigh more than manga, so the shipping from tenso is … fairly expensive. I mean it still works out to be significantly cheaper than if I’d tried to buy HP alone from Amazon, so it’s not that it’s a total waste or anything, but it went way over my planned budget for this month because I was a dunce who didn’t think to check the weight on the books first. Thus I’m going to take advantage of the 90 day storage limit on tenso and ship it next month instead of this month, ahah. I wasn’t in a rush to get them anyway so that’s fine.

So I was looking at my stats on iKnow… I’ve been using it off-and-on for a while, but I realized it had taken me nearly a year to complete the first two steps I’d done (3 and 4, I skipped 1 & 2 because they were just far too boring to even be used for sentence-practice) because I really hadn’t been using it like I meant to. Now I’m doing better with 5, 6, and 7, though. Looks like I started 5 in June and I’m nearly through it, and started 6 a week ago and am at 74%. Managed about 4 hours of study last week, and I’m kind of aiming for around that this week. The awkward thing is that is like the max limit of my studying, at the moment.

Usually I get a bit more in during my commute to/from work, but I haven’t really been doing Pimsleur in the car since I’ve been finishing up an audiobook. Should be done with that by the end of the week, so I can go back to Japanese in the car, which will be good. Lately I’ve been feeling my output struggling compared to my input again, which I know Pimlseur helps with to some extent as do my sessions with my tutor, though I think I also need to start doing regular journal entries on Lang-8 or at least a sentence a day on Twitter or something, if I can manage to write regularly (I don’t usually do well at doing anything regularly). I’m going to need to find some sort of replacement for Pimsleur for the drive soon, too, since I’m starting on III– I’ve tried using Japanesepod101.com before, but it’s never been as easy or pleasant to set up some sort of long-term routine with for some reason. I almost think I’d rather find some purely-Japanese podcasts if I can, but we’ll see.

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