I just transferred from another Japanese learning website which told me what to learn and when to learn. Now that I'm here, I guess I have to choose what I want to study... One big leap for Japanese-learning-kind...
I'm studying for the N5 in December 2016 (anybody going to Houston? \(・∀・)/) mainly because I have known all of its Kanji for a while, have gone through a considerable amount of vocabulary with those Kanji, and, well, yeah. I transferred all of my known vocabulary and Kanji from the other website, and the site is reviewing me on it, and introducing new material into my quizzes as well (very nice!).
However, this learning style of 2-3 words/Kanji per quiz seems somewhat slow. I want to learn new material, but I have too much review to be able to both review and learn (other than introduced in quizzes). I'm trying to have my study time per day in 三十分 at the least.
What is your guys' schedule? How do you divide up learning time and reviewing time?
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^ つまり... I'm somewhat confused about the study library. Do I learn new material by taking quizzes on them, or can I learn, see examples, and then quiz on them? Would the latter be done by lurking around in the grammar library?
If you want to quickly start up your schedules - you can turn the number of new terms up to 10-15 for the first 4 of 5 quizzes. (You can change this in the schedule settings - there should be a button for that at the top of the schedule summary page). After that, cap it back down to 5-10 new words per day. You'll get a healthy balance really quickly.
After that, the site will split up the learning and reviewing time for you automatically, but in the very beginning, it is a bit of just new new new terms.
With new materials, you can just dive right into them. If you are doing vocab/kanji and you add lessons to a schedule, it will introduce the materials to you first just before quizzing them initially.
With grammar, I'd recommend looking through pages in the grammar library before taking the grammar quizzes. Although, just like vocab/kanji, if you make a grammar schedule, it will introduce new grammar before you quiz it, and you can use that page to jump off to the grammar library to look up more on it.
Hope this helps! Everyone has a different study style on renshuu, which is both its greatest strength and weakness. Others might chime in and tell you what works best for them.
Basically I use WaniKani for learning kanji. I learn grammar from Genki. Initially I learn the new words from Genki on Memrise. Then I come on here and revise the vocab for all the Genki chapters I've read, using a Schedule I created, selecting the Genki chapters I've done. I've told Renshuu what kanji I know off WaniKani, and I more or less ignore other kanji that crop up in Genki. I'm going to have a look at the grammar lessons on here as I do them in Genki.
