Here’s my immersion routine for learning Japanese. If you don’t know what immersion-based language learning is, I’d recommend checking out this video.
Goals
My current goals are as follows:
- >=3 hours active immersion on weekdays
- >=3 hour passive immersion on weekdays
- 4 clips choursed on weekdays
- 11 new Anki cards a day (made & reviewed)
Weekly Pipeline
I choose one season of a show that will follow the following schedule:
(First Week) Watch the season fully for active immersion
(Second Week) Listen to the condensed audio of the season daily as passive immersion (ideally once a day)
(Third Week) Mine the Subs2SRS deck manually
(Fourth Week) Start reviewing the Anki cards I’ve made from the show
Every week, a new show gets started down the pipeline. So the week I’m active watching a show on step 1, I’m also passively immersing the previous week’s show, and so on.
Why do I do this?
Ensures I always have passive immersion content that is comprehensible and always have a body of cards to mine from for Anki
Makes my Anki cards inherently in-context and really levels up my new words
I find that doing a routine like this helps me stick with immersion better than just “random immersion”
This serves as an extremely effecient method of learning new words, so it makes my general immersion time more fun and makes me not constantly look up words
General Immersion
I generally follow a few main things when it comes to immersion
- Always have a show ready to watch
- Always have passive immersion easily ready (the pipeline solves this)
- If I am active immersing, no phone, no distractions, and (almost ever) no pausing to look things up. I am okay with not looking things up because I view the pipeline as the main source of new words.