Tobias Schlicht

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Current journey

I have signed up to take the JLPT N2 test this December, for which I need a lot of studying to go in every single day. The most significant habits I have developed for this are:

My stats

For these daily habits, I want to share some of my stats here, which I try to keep up-to-date regularly. Keep in mind, these are just my numbers. I would not call myself a particularly fast learner regarding languages, so bear with me here please.

Every morning I wake up and go to entering new vocab into Anki. I take the next 20 of my list and enter them. Some of them I already know, or are just english loan-words, which I skip straight-ahead. This whole process usually takes 35 - 50 minutes depending on the words complexity and abstractness.

These are the stats of the amount of cards I enter each day, over the last 30 days

          New vocab entry per day       
  ┌────────────────────────────────────┐
64┤                       ██           │
61┤                       ██     ██    │
57┤                       ██     ██    │
50┤                       ██     ██    │
47┤                       ██     ██    │
42┤                       ██     ██    │
37┤                      ███     ██    │
35┤                      ███     ██    │
26┤██       █            ███     ██    │
23┤██       █            ███     ██    │
17┤███    ███         ██ ███     ██    │
14┤██████████████████ ██ ████   ███  ██│
 9┤████████████████████████████████████│
 7┤████████████████████████████████████│
 0┤████████████████████████████████████│
  └┬───────┬────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬────┘
 09/11  09/17 09/21 09/27 10/02 10/07   
Entered vocab

And these are the stats of how long I take for reviewing cards every day, over the last 30 days

       Review time in minutes per day   
    ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
78.3┤                    ▗▌            │
    │                    ▐▌            │
66.0┤                    ▐▌         ▗  │
    │                    ▐▐         █  │
    │                    ▐▐         ▛▖ │
53.7┤      ▗ ▗▌          ▐▐        ▗▘▌ │
    │▖  ▞▖▞▀▖▐▝▄▀▀▜      ▞ ▌       ▐ ▝ │
41.5┤▚▗▀ ▝  ▚▌    ▐      ▌ ▌ ▟     ▐   │
    │ ▘     ▝▌     ▌     ▌ ▌▐ ▌▗▚▄▌▞   │
    │              ▚▄    ▌ ▝▘ ▝▘  ▚▌   │
29.2┤               ▐    ▌        ▐▌   │
    │               ▝▖  ▖▌         ▘   │
16.9┤                ▌▗▀▝▌             │
    │                ▚▐                │
    │                ▐▌                │
 4.6┤                ▝▌                │
    └┬───────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬┘
   09/10   09/17    09/25   10/02 10/10

My setup

I trust my heart and soul into the effectiveness of Anki. If you do not know about Anki and are currently studying, be it in school or on your own, I cannot stress enough what a game-changer Anki was for me. At this point I do not want to go into much detail about what Anki is and how to use it, as there are thousands of better resources out there. (I will add them here soon)

For vocabulary, I tried sticking to the method of the Fluent Forever book. This means, for every new vocab, I enter: