so... a few things have changed since i wrote my "language goals" post two months ago. particularly for these two points:
※ Finish Core 2K/6K Optimised Deck
※ Pass JLPT N3
initially, i really wanted to finish the whole Core 2K/6K Deck instead of just stopping at 2K, which is what most people do. but i reached a point where doing my reps for this particular deck felt like a chore. one of the main reasons why i decided to do this deck was because i needed to learn the writings for the words i already knew. so at the start, things were pretty smooth sailing, my retention rate was pretty good since i was just learning the characters. there were new words/characters here and there but it wasn't so overwhelming, plus a lot of the words in the deck are pretty common words that i'd easily encounter during immersion. that was until, i reached the >1,500 mark, where i started getting more cards that i didn't know and with harder characters. i mostly spent 2+ hours going through my reviews and new cards each day for this deck alone. out of frustration, i ended up breezing my way through my reps. some of the new words i was getting were also those that i didn't find particularly useful (yet), such as political terms, etc. not good :c
i realised, the deck also made me pretty complacent and lazy with making my own cards since i had this deck anyway. on top of all that, i also felt myself slowly falling for the sunk-cost fallacy.
so i decided to do the most sensible thing that my non-sensible self would hate to do... and that is to "give up" on what i'd started and finally suspend the rest of the cards after reaching 2K. (´｡• ω •｡`)
needless to say, i felt much lighter after doing this. and have been spending more of my time creating my own cards instead. below is my latest stats for the deck. i didn't even realise i only have 13 cards left that haven't matured yet!!
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as for JLPT N3, with the current situation, it seems highly likely that the exam at the end of the year would get postponed. though, an official announcement regarding the status of the exam is yet to be made two weeks from now, i realised that it might be better for me to focus and studying and just do the N1 exam by next year. also taking into consideration, the fact that if i were to give my own tips/insights on language learning and shit completely on traditional language learning methods, it might be much easier to convince them to listen to what i have to say if i were to pass the exam in one go (i think...). though, not to ride the 調子, it's more of me having so much confidence with this method, along with noam chomsky and stephen krashen's theories on language acquisition (+ anki!) rather than myself. i guess this is just me trying to get back at traditional learning methods for almost making me believe i would never be fluent with how i was studying languages ↑_(ΦwΦ)Ψ
aaaand speaking of making my own cards, here's my rather complicated process of making them. though this process continually evolves like a pokémon.