One of the nice things about using lingualift is that it also tracks minutes spent when doing things like studying vocab. Keeping track of time is not something I’m good at. It’s also nice because even though there’s overlap on basic terms, they break it up by section, so there’s also quite a bit in the “Food and Drink” section that I’m in right now that I’m either fuzzy on or never even heard used before. I’m finding using the kanji and vocab sections is a good way to start working on my basic kanji writing again.

Last week I apparently studied about 38 minutes in the vocab and 16 minutes of kanji. I’ve been using a notebook with graph paper and basically just writing out each word one or more times as I learn or review them. I didn’t bother with their kanji practice sheets– they have giant practice boxes, and it seemed like a waste of paper to print out so many, especially when I naturally tend to have small handwriting and already owned a graph notebook. I’m also actually working through chapters in the book, but I’m taking my time with it a bit as I catch up the vocab to the chapter. I’m still Level 1 in vocab, but Level 2 on kanji (as I skipped the first level), and in the book, on chapter 10. I just did the assessments for previous chapters, and then started reading through in more detail on chapter 9 (on adjectives), which I needed the formal review on.

Still working through iKnow, too. I’m finishing up 8 and 9, going to start on 10, maybe this week. I’ve been completely neglecting the Super Challenge, but my thoughts are somewhat that if I do more focus on vocab, it will improve my reading/listening comprehension, so I will be able to read more/faster later and can hopefully catch up. But right now I’m just not able to get excited about it, so I think I’m just taking a break from it.

My tutoring has been a bit sporadic, sadly, I missed a week because of awkward budgeting and I couldn’t purchase more tickets in time, and then missed scheduling the next lesson because the tickets didn’t process in time. But I’m having a lesson today, and hopefully will be back on track again.

September was a weird month. I hope October goes a little smoother. I’d been having a ton of trouble with sleep during September, too, but that seems to be evening out a little again.