It’s been 51 days(54 study hours) since the last report.  I’ve learned 244 new Japanese vocab words which works out to less than 5 per day.  I still haven’t learned any more kanji or added any more sentences.

The low total is most likely explained by my suspension of all my katakana cards because I felt that they were not the best use of my time at present.  I’m sure quite a few katakana cards were included in my previous total but were dropped from my current total.  That probably means that my old average of 7 new vocab per day was a little high since katakana cards were pretty much already learned.

At any rate, I’ve found some Japanese music with vocals that I actually enjoy listening to, and there’s actually a lot of words that I can pick up on.  There are a few songs with very simple, repetitive lyrics where I can probably recognize 50% of the words.  This is very rare and there are still songs where I can’t identify more than a word or two, but finally getting to a point where I can see a hint of actual practical progress is encouraging.

Japanese TV is a tiny bit better, but I still can’t do better than catching a few words here and there if I’m lucky.  I really do feel that listening practice is helping though.

I’ve calculated that I probably won’t be able to follow TV shows until sometime next summer when my vocab is up around ~3000.