I finished Tae Kim Basic and Essential grammar last night so that’s where all the new sentences came from.  I’m really happy that I did Tae Kim.  I feel like most of the grammar used in core is easy now and a lot of grammar I catch on TV sounds familiar although I still can’t keep up with native speed.  I’ll save the last part of Tae Kim until later because it seems it is mostly special grammar that isn’t used as often.

Next steps:

I’m really interested in getting back to learning more vocabulary, so I’ll start adding new vocab in the next few days.  There were a few vocabulary words that I didn’t know in Tae Kim and Core, so I’m going to use cb’s word list duplicate remover to add the vocabulary that I haven’t studied and study that next.  That way, I’ll get the vocab reinforcement when I do sentence reviews.  Then I’ll start adding core vocabulary again.  I’ll be doing single words and clozed sentences J>E.

I’m in the process of figuring out how to get subs into subs2srs so that I can get some more exposure to real japanese.  I’m planning on running cb’s text analyzer, extracting the vocab, removing known words, and ankiing the unknown vocab.  Once I know all of the vocab, I’ll anki the dialog until I understand most of it and then I’ll watch the show.

I’m also considering memorizing kanji primitives.  There’s only ~250 of them I think and I already know a few of them so it shouldn’t take too long.  I will probably start rtk lite around the beginning of next year and I hope having the primitives firmly memorized will make kanji a little easier.