/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

Hello ruffians!
Thanks to your encouragement I started with my Nihongo learning journey!
Day 300: Today I've done my anki and immersion reps. For anki I've learned 5 new cards. For immersion I've watched one episode of an anime.
Day 300, huh? I'm getting closer and closer to that 1 year mark... Recap of the last 100 days is the same as the recap of the second 100 days: anki and immersion.
Anki: I continued with doing just 5 cards a day and now I only have 213 new cards left to go through. I should be done with it just a few days before anniversary. It was not a smooth sailing though. One of the main mechanics in Anki is that you grade yourself after you see the back side of the card. When using it for learning Japanese vocab you have to remember two things after seeing the word on the front of the card: it's reading and the meaning. For some reason, my brain, for the most words, links meaning to the reading, not the writing, kanji used or the "look of the word". That's why I started doing something silly: after I saw the word on the front of the card I used to firstly think about it's reading, close my eyes and immediately reveal the back side, so the recording of it's reading would start. When I confirmed I had recalled it's reading correctly only then I'd think about it's meaning, cause for the most part if I correctly remembered the reading I'd guess the meaning as well. After that I'd open my eyes and actually check if the meaning is right too. I also started paying too much attention to the card intervals when grading myself. If I saw the card that had a really long review interval even if I almost didn't remember it at all I would be like: "Damn, I don't wanna reset that interval, let's just click Hard instead of Again and I'll hopefully remember it the next time". One more aspect was that I did way, way, WAY more listening than reading immersion and it led to the situation where I had really hard time recalling anything about the word from it's writing, but when I'd hear the riding (hear, cause I was keeping my eyes closed when I revealed the card) I'd be like "Oh, yeah, I know that, how could I forget it, let's not click Again". All of that combined made me do my reps really quickly, but not actually learning much. Around 25 days ago I finally put a stop to all of that and started properly grading myself. Of course, it then meant that I was clicking on the Again button way more, I reset the interval of a bunch of cards and the cards started piling up which led to the multiple days of 90+ minutes long Anki sessions. Nowadays, I'm not as strict as I was during that repentance period, sometimes when I don't have much time or I'm not feeling it I'm still grading in the little bit of a easier criteria, but I'm trying to not do it all the times and especially not multiple days in a row.
Immersion: I was mostly focused on watching JP streams. Both FUWAMOCO and JP chuuba ones. In the last month I was craving some anime, so I switched back to anime again. Percentage vise, there was not a drastic increase of understanding in the last 100 days: on the day 200 I sad that I understood roughly 30% of the JP content, now it's maybe like 35%. With the margin that small it may even be the same as before, but I just made myself think I understand more. It's probably due to the fact that time vise I wasn't actually immersing that long every day. Whenever I said that I watched JP stream, it wasn't a whole stream, it was probably around 45 minutes on average.
Wow, they've put up waiting rooms for a lot of streams! I'm particularly looking forward to the Minecraft stream.
FUWAMOCO love!
BAU BAU!