Progress tracker

Having successfully improved my speaking and listening skills in both Japanese and Mandarin last year with the Pimsleur study, I have now revised my focus for 2008. Currently I am working on consolidating my grammar and vocabulary notes for both Japanese and Mandarin, and studying the Kanji.

Right now I'm not exactly sure how long it will take to put together a set of notes for one of the textbook chapters, but I would like to aim for completing one each week (alternating between Japanese and Mandarin). Ultimately it would be great to get this done before the lesson that covers the material.

Here's my progress to date:


Japanese - current

Revision & notes

"Japanese for Busy People" (Beginners textbook)
Goal 1: Chapter 1 - start: 5th Jan '08, target: 11th Jan '08, actual: 17th Feb '08

Kanji - meanings, ON & KUN readings (Anki)

"一七万三上下中九" - start: 17th Feb '08, target: 23rd Feb '08, actual: 11th Mar '08
"二五人今休会何先" - start: 12th Mar '08, target: 15th Mar '08, actual: 18th Mar '08
"入八六円出分前北" - start: 19th Mar '08, target: 23rd Mar '08, actual: 24th Mar '08
"十千午半南友口古" - start: 25th Mar '08, target: 29th Mar '08, actual: 5th Mar '08
"右名四国土外多大" - start: 6th Apr '08, target: 12th Apr '08, actual: 28th Apr '08
"天女子学安小少山" - start: 29th Apr '08, target: 5th May '08, actual: 18th Jun '08
"左手年川日店後新" - start: 19th Jun '08, target: 25th Jun '08, stopped: 13th July '08

Minna no Nihongo 1 (Anki) - kanji, vocab & sentences

Introduction & Preliminary Lesson - start: 19th Jun '08, target: 3rd Jul '08

LiveMocha.com Japanese 101 (Anki)

Unit 1 Lesson 1 - start: 1st Jul '08, target: 7th Jul '08, actual: 19th Jul '08
Unit 1 Lesson 2 - start: 20th Jul '08, target 26th Jul '08

JLPT4 (Anki)

Vocabulary - start: 13th Jul '08, target: 12th Sep '08
Expressions - start: 13th Jul '08, target: 12th Sep '08
Grammar Sentences - start: 13th Jul '08, target: 12th Oct '08

Notes

Romaji cards disabled in Anki on 12th Jul '08
About.com Japanese E-mail Word of the Day added from 13th Jul '08
To be added to Anki: Pimsleur vocab & sentences, radicals


Mandarin

Revision & notes

"Colloquial Chinese" (Beginners textbook)
Goal 1: Chapter 2 - start: 18th Feb '08, target: 2nd Mar '08, stopped: 28th Apr '08

Colloquial Chinese (Anki) - characters, vocab & sentences

Chapter 1 Part 1 - start: 20th Apr '08, target: 3rd May '08, actual: 27th Apr '08
Chapter 1 Part 2 - start: 28th Apr '08, target: 10th May '08

LiveMocha.com Mandarin 101 (Anki)

Unit 1 Lesson 1 - start: 3rd Jul '08, target: 9th Jul '08


German

LiveMocha.com German 101 (Anki)

Unit 1 Lesson 1 - start: 3rd Jul '08, target: 9th Jul '08, stopped: 19th Jul '08



This is the 2008 "progress tracker". You can view the archived "progress tracker" page as of December 31st, 2007 here.