/jp/ - Otaku Culture

So after a bit less than two weeks of doing 40-80 kanji a day with KKLC, I stalled out at the beginning of this week from the sheer tedium of the exercise. I made it to a little less than 1000 characters in. I think what really killed me in this was the flashcard reps--I disabled recognition reviews, and only focused on recall, which really became a pain in the ass as they piled up. I had stalled my core deck studies to focus on this because I had felt that my retention was not strong enough for some words and wanted to focus on kanji. Went back to Core deck last night to get back on track and beat down the 800 reviews I had backlogged. I have to say, it went very well despite not having done reps in a few weeks. I feel like my ability to visually recognize and see distinctions between kanji has dramatically improved.

Now this whole time I've been reading at least an hour a day of VNs/manga, which I feel like has been way more important than either isolated vocab or kanji study. Part of me feels like I should just abandon the core deck and start learning vocab exclusively mined from material I read. I don't really mine words, but I still remember words I look up the next time I see them. I'm sure if I added in a flashcard component that would be the most efficient way of expanding my vocabulary.

Or, if I've learned anything, it's that I should do everything in balance, slowly work through core and KKLC at maybe 10 new items a day each, and then spend the rest of the time reading and expanding a mining deck. Any thoughts?