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Slow week, for a lot of reasons. Stayed on top of my flashcards but only spent maybe two hours on other materials. I'm starting to have thoughts about the textbook I've been using and how it kinda fell flat during the back stretch. The good news is it's almost over, hah. Taking a short break right now before I read the very last page before the glossary. Then it's onto the exercises and after that, I'm done! To the next study plan.
Will probably make a post on my intermediate learning journey in the near-ish future, would love to hear some thoughts about what works, what doesn't for people. It's a notorious problem in Japanese that filters a lot of students, and I'm sure it has parallels in other languages too.
Congrats on finishing the textbook! Now that you're on the other side of it, do you feel like going throught it was a big boost for you?
But yeah, I'd definitely enjoy reading a thread with your thoughts overall on the intermediate stage.
I actually did a post-mortem today on it, and my self-evaluation is that my reading automaticity (that is, kanji/kana, familiar word processing speed) has significantly improved and I'm much more comfortable with complex sentences than I used to be. I also picked up a lot of new grammar. My vocab and kanji knowledge remain strong for my level.
The downside is, after doing an analysis on my notes about where I was getting tripped up, I have some foundational issues with comprehension and rules of grammar that need shoring up, things the book didn't address. I think I'm going to do just that next month and push the next guidebook (a test prep book) to May.