Going to Japan for at least a couple weeks with a friend in about 6 months. We’re gonna work through Genki/Tae Kim and each do the core2k and see where we end up if we practice what we learn together. (Plus a bunch of inpoot). I actually know a couple hundred words already because I went in raw and tried to learn what I could when I spent a month in Tokyo for work/school (literally studying the Navy leave survival phrases on the flight over).

Just need to work out how i’m gonna balance my Chinese with it. I might have to reduce Chinese to backburner/maintenance mode, like just do some input but cease studying more than an absolute minimum temporarily. I guess Hanzi carries over to Kanji pretty well so maybe i’ll stop doing formal “chinese study” and just switch to Hanzi study via Remembering the Hanzi in the meantime so when I come back I’ll have gotten a break from intense grammar and speaking, with an expanded knowledge of characters (which should get some practice in Japan). I was also planning on doing the 200 Kanji component deck in the next 6 months too so I figure that will amplify my Hanzi study long term even more.

Basically, I’m just going for input/practice so I can talk a little out there in 6 months, while trying to make sure I can get maximum payoff and minimum damage when I get back to focusing on Chingchong. Japanese seems dramatically easier to input just because I don’t have any difficulty with the phonetics.

Anyone else ever do Chinese and Japanese? Whether simultaneously or not? What can I expect?