Japanese Learning Burnout Reset
The Day One Japanese Roadmap
Verbs
+3
Oct 29, 2026
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4 min read
Compound verbs read wrong when you add the halves. The second verb is the shape of the first one.
Reading
+2
Oct 22, 2026
How to tell in about a minute whether a text is at your level, and what the famous 98% number actually means.
Language Deep Dive
Oct 15, 2026
3 min read
Keigo is a direction marker, not a politeness dial. Three questions you can run mid-sentence.
N3-N2
Oct 12, 2026
Handwriting kanji mostly makes you better at handwriting kanji. The move worth keeping is writing from memory.
Vocabulary
Oct 1, 2026
Everyone says to switch to a Japanese-only dictionary around N2. We went looking for whoever decided that, and could not find them.
Sep 28, 2026
Why every professor and grandfather in Japanese fiction talks the same way, where the form genuinely lives today, and why that difference matters.
Sep 17, 2026
Block what is new, shuffle what keeps losing, and leave alone what already works
