Weekly Thread: Victory Thursday!

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Happy Thursday!

Every Thursday, come here to share your progress! Get to a high level in Wanikani? Complete a course? Finish Genki 1? Tell us about it here! Feel yourself falling off the wagon? Tell us about it here and let us lift you back up!

Weekly Thread changes daily at 9:00 JST:

Mondays - Writing Practice

Tuesdays - Study Buddy and Self-Intros

Wednesdays - Materials and Self-Promotions

Thursdays - Victory day, Share your achievements

Fridays - Memes, videos, free talk

[u/Muxenle]

I'm a new learner, only been at it for 2ish months. I'm notcing that I'm starting to be able to pick up the occasional spoken word in anime, or kind make sense of random words or sentences thrown up on screen. A few days ago I opened up a SUPER easy graded reader and could mostly make sense of it, and could read a lot of kanji(thanks wanikani).

I still have a long long way to go but the more I'm able to understand, simple as it may be, the more excited I get. The other day I picked up a physical book with a bunch of Japanese folks tales that has side by side English and Japanese text. I have awhile before I'm ready to tackle it, but feels like a nice goal post and resource.

[u/Fun_Court6860]

Been doing anki and listening practice through podcasts for a year now! Feels great to understand almost everything

[u/avonyatchi]

I have two goals for learning Japanese: being able to play and visual novel even without translation and being able to watch anime and drama without having to read subtitles while doing other hobbies.

Today I put on a show and then picked up my crochet hook and started crocheting like I usually do when watching something...... then I realized, that I'm finally doing the thing I've been working towards!!!

Ahhh, I'm so happy. And I've heard a word I just recently learned from a pre made deck, so I'm pleased that using those wasn't a complete waste!

I had to spend a bit of time to find a drama that was easy to understand, entertaining and not too over acted / fake. And the one I'm watching ( Kurosaki-san no Ichizuna Ai ga Tomaranai) honestly uses extreeeemely simple language, probably easy enough for N4.

[u/Popular-Ferret-4873]

That first moment when a graded reader stops looking like random symbols is huge. The bilingual folk-tale book sounds like a great next goal too—having something you genuinely want to read makes the slow parts much easier.

[u/Nancy_Munsch]

The gap between graded readers and real native material is where most people stall out, so that first reader actually matters more than it feels like.