Though desclaimer, there are a couple of sort of aggressive questions I get often 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. 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
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So whats your method of studying?
Yeah senpai…teach me please
I didn’t even know there were that many
Humblebrag?
That sounds pretty cool. What did it take you to get there? Curious in your background (why you did that, what’s your routine and tools, which kind of media you consume etc)
What was your process when reading the first few books? Did you try to understand every word, or just the gist of the story? How did you study new vocab?
How many hours a day were you studying or immersing?
Wanna cookie?
why did you delete the last post and repost it?
What’s the point of this post?
I’ve always wondered what people mean when they say “can read”. When do you consider you’ve ‘learned’ a kanji? Also did you bother with handwriting?
Those sorts of aggressive questions are usually from people trying to cope that they can’t do as well and want to bring others down with them. It’s no wonder there are a lot on this subreddit when you look at the study habits of most people here.
Crazy the duality of this sub
OP: I can read 3000+ kanji after 15 months
Comments: “wanna cookie?” “What was the point of this post?
Another OP: Just finished reading my first manga volume completely in Japanese!
Comments: “おめでとうございます” “That’s awesome, good job!”
Y’all just be hating when you feel like the hivemind will allow it. Corny. Congrats OP, I plan to hit 2k kanji at the end of this month, my 11th month, I’d like to be at your level 🙂 keep moving forward