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Had a really good week doing my new grammar drills. Already feeling a shift in comprehension now that I'm starting this verb-first approach. If nothing else, I'm seeing the nuts and bolts of Japanese more, and the reasons why I'm getting the cues I'm getting that point towards specific understanding. Still definitely on track to start the new book in two weeks.
On a more negative side, N2 vocab is kicking my ass a bit. Starting to see my mature card retention rate tick down and I know exactly why: kanji kun'yomi. There are a lot more single-kanji verbs showing up than there used to be, and unfortunately, the readings for those kanji are all rote memorization. There are no shortcuts unless I stumble upon a mnemonic, and Zipf's Law means words at this level are going to be relatively rare encounters when reading. One of the biggest challenges of upper intermediate/advanced learning across languages, I'm sure.