Progress Update: 1/24
Kanji Kount™: 1525
Kanji is progressing nicely, at my increased pace of 25/day. Some days are harder than others, but at least I'm not skipping or failing to finish my reps anymore. I think I should start spreading my reviews throughout the day, rather than a 2+ hour session before I go to sleep as I've been doing. This way, I won't be so tempted to procrastinate the huge pile of reviews until later, instead steadily tackling them 25 minutes at a time. Also, I'll hopefully be able to avoid my near-daily burnout after hours of study and possibly increase retention rate.
On the Kana front however, I remembered to bring back my workbook from home this time, and have been doing a few pages per day. Hiragana is pretty darn strong, to the point that I've surprised myself with being at least as good with it as reading Hebrew. I can read Hiragana much faster than Hebrew (probably because I don't have to deal with the weird vowel rules/pattern of Hebrew, and instead just read what you see!), however I'm still a little uncertain as to a few characters like わ、ね、れ、め、ぬ、る、and ろ since they look so similar. But I'm sure that more time and practice will take care of those issues shortly. Still... I've been doing Hebrew of some kind since 2nd grade (granted, I was not nearly as disciplined as I am now) and the fact that I'm more comfortable reading (and understanding: my Japanese comprehension is probably greater than my Hebrew, although my Hebrew vocabulary is still larger, I think) Japanese, which I've been studying for... less than 3 months(!) is astonishing.
Katakana is another story entirely though. Since I don't see it nearly as much, I don't really have as many opportunities to practice. Furthermore, my workbook does Hiragana first, and I'm not quite finished with that section yet. I have been doing the Anki deck for Kana (including Hiragana as well) every few days (It's definitely 2nd priority after Kanji. I do Kana if I'm not totally burned out and my OCD-like behavior compels me to have 0 reviews waiting... :P) and I suppose it's been helping me with recognition and writing. I'm having a much harder time with Katakana than Hiragana, I think (maybe because all the boring straight lines don't stand out in my memory?). Once I get to the Katakana section of the workbook, I'm sure it'll improve rapidly as well.
