(posting because it might be useful to people)

My next goals for learning are:

• To become “fluent” at watching slice of life anime and dramas
• To be able to easily hear japanese pitch accent

refold.ia as well as various youtubers recommend gaining a high level of proficiency listening and comprehending the language before you start to speak it.

The reason is, because you will be able to recognise if you are pronouncing things wrong or otherwise sound weird and will be able to correct yourself. You have better feedback loops, and are less likely to get a lot of repetitions of pronouncing things the wrong way and developing an accent.

Refold talks about different types of immersion:

• Active: you are giving your full time and attention to the immersion
• Passive: you are doing something else and listening to the language in the background

Active immersion is further divided into two types:

• Intensive: you are looking up everything you don’t know
• Free flow: you just watch and let yourself understand what you understand

They are described as both being beneficial, and complementary practices.

I’m planning on watching through K-on intensively and yuru camp as free flow immersion. After this I’ll switch them.

After that I’ll go through a list of slice of life anime and series until I’m very comfortable with the domain.

I’m also doing my flashcards everyday on jpdb.io

I learn ten new words a day and revise old ones according to an algorithm