Are you going to start a Japanese business now?
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Thank you!
Thank you!
Seems like you have a good routine going on there! If you keep going like that, you will be at more advanced books soon I believe. There is of course a huge difference between adult books as well. As mentioned, any kind of history book is impossible for me still, but business seems like a well balanced topic as you won’t encounter the crazy names and words not used in every-day conversation. I feel this business book gave me a lot of useful words to function better as an adult in Japan.
Unfortunately I have no idea how many words I know. Looking at WK stats for lvl 40, perhaps 4000-5000? 
When you get to around lvl 40 I think you will have enough Kanji knowledge to start reading books aimed at adults, however as you say, the problem is the amount of vocabulary. It seems endless and every day there is at least 1 new word in my life. When will it stop?! 
Lastly, you have to reinforce the new words you learn, or they will fade away. I think Anki is great, but if you don’t see it in context you will probably forget it or not understand its true meaning. Thus, keep reading! There were a lot of words from WK I saw in this book which I knew the meaning of, but not how to use. Words such as 公示 (only example I remember now )
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If everything goes to plan, yes 
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Congratulations! I literally just finished my third manga volume an hour ago so we can celebrate together! 
It’s nice to remember how one year ago, I would take 20 minutes /page due to lack of vocab and grammar, but now it only takes 2 minutes maximum. Keep up the good work!
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I could almost assure you that you know more words than what you might guess. 
As a reference, I do keep somewhat of a count for my current vocab, using Anki and having a notepad file with the vocab in WK that turns out a bit obscure too. Putted together that adds up currently to somewhat like 4,500 words, which fits accordingly; I’ve heard on an extensive reading presentation that kids around 6-8 years knew something like 5-7k words, hence my current strugle
I’m aiming at tackling sucessively books aimed at 小学 , 中学 and then 中学以上 . Forntunatly japanese books are easily found with a correspondant target audience mark, so I can trace a path in my next readings.
Anyway, best of lucks with both your next reading and business proyect 
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So dedicated 
Aww, now I want to know how many words I know (← many ´w´ in there). But I guess there is no way to figure out now. Good luck to you too! And let us know when you reach a milestone!!!
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I remember someone mentioning an online test evaluating that.
There was also an online quiz shared on the forum, but that one was not done by natives, so it was a bit weird.
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Here is a website for testing vocab and getting an estimate number
Among extensive readers circles it is told that it usually takes something like 9,000 words to read an unsimplified book, and still bump into 2 new words per page… so I’m guessing you could be moving in that range.
My next post reading milestone wise will be for reviewing all the graded readers that I’m curently about to finnish. I’m running out of those… it will be the first resource I’ve exhausted so far
That’s the weird one I was talking about. Not sure how accurate it is, though.
Does it give you the same numbers than what you would expect from your own count?
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Multiple choice test, so, overstimated in my case.
ps. sorry for hijacking the post
It gives me 6400, and I don’t have much trouble reading Japanese novels without a dictionary, so it does not sound right 
if that’s the case you might well be far above 10K … I consider “nose in the dictionary” time a better indicator 
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I don’t think it is…
This one looks nice, though: http://www1.odn.ne.jp/drinkcat/quiz/
You can choose how many questions you want to answer, with the associated error margins, AND you can choose to say that you don’t know.
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I would say it’s much less accurate in the lower levels. The 10 questions put me in a 18,000 vocab (+/-4.000). Good thing though it tells you how much estimated guessing there’s (in my case, quite high)
Congrats !!
I just placed my first order for a 絵本。
And just thought I share this cool place in 渋谷 for those living in / visiting 東京：
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Tried a JLPT level checker: http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/levelcheck/
Dunno about this either… 
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Haha, does knowing synonyms and antonyms of a few words actually prove that you know a language though? Especially since those kanji in the quiz had like a kazillion strokes XD
these websites merely try to aproximate your known vocab. Not very accurately though.
For reading it’s a commmon measure of what kind of text you could be able to understand… So far, keeping a more o less accurate register of this, correlates well with the books I’m able to read… but still that’s only the reading part of the language.
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