Commenting On: The Road to Learning Japanese: Language Journal

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1. How do you keep track on what you’ve learnt and what your going to learn.
   Do you make like a checklist of all the lessons or is it just through the goals your making?
   Also if it’s just the goals how do you make them?

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   1. Hi Tianna! I usually use some kind of textbook when it comes to learning. At the time of this article, I was using Tobira, so a lot of my goals reflected what I needed to do to get through the book. My goals were also based on strengthening my weaknesses (listening has always been a challenge for me). Ultimately, though, you have to decide two things: (1) what it is you want to (be able to) do in Japanese, and (2) what you need to do in order to reach that. For example, maybe you want to be able to understand a volume of manga. What do you need to do in order to completely understand it? Maybe you need to make a list of vocabulary and grammar you don’t understand or kanji you can’t read that appear in the volume. Maybe you need to add them to a flashcard system like Anki so you can memorize them. Whatever the case may be, these are the sorts of things I would write down on my to-do lists.

      As for keeping track, what I’ve done for a while now is purchase a planner specifically for my Japanese studies. It has both monthly and weekly calendars, so I use the weekly calendar sections to list what I want/need to do based on my goals. It’s pretty easy to keep track of what I’ve done using a planner, since I can easily flip through the whole year and see what was checked off and what wasn’t. I try to write out my goals for the whole week. Then, I remind myself of my goals for the day by rewriting them in my language journal. You don’t have to rewrite them if you don’t want to, of course.

      I hope I answered all of your questions! If you have any more, feel free to ask. Thanks for reading my article, and good luck with your Japanese studies! ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶

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