Though disclaimer, there are a couple of kinda aggressive questions I often get whenever I tell this to people. Stuff like “Uuh ok but can you write them?” No, I don’t live in Japan and have no plans of moving there, so it’s a useless skill but I might start practicing it if I get bored enough
“Uuh but can you write this post in japanese?” I guess I could, but it wouldn’t even be close to native level japanese. Of course I can’t speak fluently after 15 months of learning
However, there is a question which I can answer positively to. “How’s your comprehension?”. Very good. I read a lot, that’s how I learned all these kanji after all. The title could be “How I reached close to native level japanese comprehension just by reading books and visual novels in 1 year” but having 3000 kanji under my belt sounds better as a title. I can give you some advice but I’m also ready for the downvotes
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This is just a flex post.
There’s loads of non Japanese that can read and write 3k kanji
Any books/light novels you recommend for other beginners?
I’m still a basic learner, but I’d like some books to help me improve, because that’s what really helped me learn English.
Once you get past the initial stage of learning Kanji, when your brain is still wrapping around the concept and for some reason NOTHING wants to stick or click. It’s actually not a HARD thing to do.
At first your brain wants something to grasp on to. Most people have to make stories using radical mnemonics. But eventually your brain gets cool with the idea of “(shape) = (word)” and it starts being quick and seamless and totally doable while you’re reading through some piece of media or other.
I’m guessing you’re approximating this from a [kanji grid](https://imgur.com/a/4bGeago) in anki?
Are you confident in understanding kanji outside of the context of words/ for similar looking kanji (寺、時、待、持、詩、特、侍、etc.)/ and in fake words
I mean, downvotes are reasonable since you do weird trolling here and then delete your posts.
(eg: https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/yox3lm/n3_is_not_intermediate/ )