I’m a reasonable fluent speaker of Japanese, I can do casual conversations and follow most of TV dramas dialogues but I stopped studying Japanese 10 years ago after the N2 exam (which I didn’t pass but it was a close thing) and I never manage to catch up with Kanji and “difficult words”. I’m now at…

This is the best thing ever. Thank you!!

You’re going to be great. In my opinion speaking is the most difficult part of the language because you need to reproduce it fairly quickly. I certainly does get more and more stimulating as you level up and the onyomi vs kunyomi readings become clearer as the patterns start clicking. Of course, l…

[image] Uberto: I wonder if other people are in my same situation (fluent spoken Japanese but little reading skill). I honestly think that this is what a lot of people with at least one Japanese parent experience if they grow up outside of Japan, because they might not have the time (or other…

I made an Anki deck for the Kanjis with the mnemonics and use it every day as a writing training. I can recommend this a lot, it makes the recalling easier and you can also pass the Kanken without a lot of extra effort later on.

[image] Uberto: Something that I’d like is a drill mode (which doesn’t update the stats) to repeat the kanjis of given level. Once kanjiroids is back online, that might be a good drill practice for you! It’s a space invaders style game where you type the reading to eliminate kanji/vocab/kana…

[image] DIO-Berry: kanjiroids I can testify that there is another category of people in my same situation: people with a Japanese spouse. :slight_smile:

kek, that’s true lol. My ex taught me some words and it’s weird to learn the kanji for them on here

Fluently speaking Japanese without being able to read it

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seanblue December 21, 2021, 4:46am 2

You can use [Userscript] Self-Study Quiz as a drill mode if you’d like. Best of luck in your studies!

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Fluently speaking Japanese without being able to read it

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