掲示板 Forums - Any tips on how to use Renshuu?

Renshuu is flexible. Extremely flexible.

Come up with a plan, if you don’t already have one, about how you are going to approach learning Japanese. Then customize renshuu to suit. People are happy to help if you can’t figure out how to do something, but first you have to decide what it is that you want to do.

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Probably one of the wisest among us

Take some time to think about what you really want. Otherwise, you will get good general advice that may not be good for what you really want. Someone who want to interact with Japaneses online should not study like someone who want to live in Japan. And the opposite is true too. And the same apply for renshuu or whatever tool you will be using :D

Oh and when I say think about it, you can go quite deep in terms of details. If you like anime or manga for example, list every genre. Because SF may use quite technical vocabulary, expressions, references, etc. Historical/Medieval/Fantasy may often used historical speech with old grammar and words. If you don't have a focus, the difference may be counted in years until you reach immersion and feels comfortable enough to enjoy you favorite media. Same for speaking with natives.

And when/if you manage to come up with a decision, renshuu can become quite powerful for that kind of goal (if you don't focus only on pre-made schedule)

Take full advantage of the schedule manager. There are plenty of community schedules to choose from or you can make your own tailored to what you want. I use renshuu as a secondary tool for my vocab and kanji. Most of my grammar I do in LingoDeer. (Mostly cause I found Renshuu after I paid for a year of LingoDeer)

Wow, big goals

Then, I recommend developing two routines starting this week:
- One formal slow pace routine to study common words, kanji, generic sentences, basic grammar (you can use the pre-made schedule or whatever works for you)
- One fast pace routine to study exclusively psychological horror stories with regular small goals.

And those small goals can be anything at the beginning. Like adding fives words from your favorite Japanese horror game to a schedule and studying them this week. It doesn't matter. What matter is that you create those routine and stick to them. And for routine like adding a few words, sentences or kanji from your favorite topic, renshuu is one of the best tools to do that :D
But again, the difficulty is sticking to them and maintaining a good balance between the two. And only you can find that balance. No will be able to help you on that.

And secondary objectives, you should never study in a tired state. Or in a demotivated state. If studying start to feels like that, fix your routines first. Renshuu have a lot of tools/features for that. There are not here for no reason. Also set up at least one day where you don't study Japanese.

That's it for me. For now, at least. There are a lot of more complicated set up/routines/features but if you struggle to follow the basic or you don't feel fully and motivated each day, they won't matter that much.

Good luck!
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PS: Also renshuu should not be the only way to study Japanese and everything should be connected too =p (Like playing horror game with JP voice, focusing on the pronounciation, searching those words and adding them renshuu, etc)