well, at least it’s not only me.

Tonight I was talking to my JOI tutor tonight about how I’m thinking I have to push back my goal for the N3 to next year. Because with my current pace, I’m only going to finish iKnow’s 2000 level by October, and the N3 expects you to know ~3000 words. Frequently when we’re doing lessons, I’m like, “I don’t know that,” from the books that specifically are N3 vocab/grammar points, which doesn’t bode well. And unfortunately, as I work full time and have other obligations, I’m pretty much maxing out on study time without going crazy at ~2 hours for vocab study a week (some weeks, less), plus whatever I manage to pick up from whatever I manage to fit in watching/reading/during tutoring sessions.

Though I told her I average about 2 hours a week, and she was like, “That’s much better than me! (with English)” ahah. I vaguely am drafting a post about learning speed vs quality (for me), but I’ll have to actually write it some other time, because I’m super tired, but I felt slightly better that someone else moves at a pretty slow pace, too.