Ee-Leen Chong

hi Guys, I haven't been posting in a while, but thought I'd share what's been helpful for me, hope that it'll help someone else 😄 I'm a big fan of Anki, but with very limited time to study daily, I felt Anki involved too much friction. At some point I'll go back to it, but for now, here's 1 method I used to help me do daily output. 1. I created a project in an LLM (use whatever you fancy) just for learning Japanese. Set the project instructions as appropriate. 2. Inside the project, open up a new chat with 'Sensei, I am going to put in audio recordings of thirty seconds each that I'm supposed to do every day. Can you help me keep a record and revise?' 3. Getting the 30 seconds out for the day: I think of very simple sentences (since I am only at N5 or so) in English, type them into Google Translate or Papago to get the Japanese translation. I choose the simplest one that I can understand, record the audio, and send it off to my coach for the day. 4. I copy the Japanese translation from Step (3) into the chat created in (2). The LLM breaks the grammar down for me, I review it a little and that's it for the day. 5. Note: you can ask the LLM (instead of Papago/Google Translate) to do Step (3), but I was afraid of hallucination, so I triangulate between Papago, Google Translate & the LLM. 6. The next day, I repeat the same steps, and use the same chat in (2). So every day, I just scroll up to the previous days' grammar breakdowns and revise a little. 7. Why it works for me at this point is that to overcome the overwhelm that I felt - I had to reduce everything to the smallest habit that I could do daily, and work my way up from there. So for me, this is 30 seconds of audio recording for now. Another reason is that, since I use the LLM daily for other purposes, it was 'frictionless' for me to open up the Sensei chat to review, alongside my other daily tasks in the LLM. This may not be a perfect way, but I'm hoping this will help others who are having trouble with habits 😃