Looking for some feedback on Japanese learning plans

Rather than using multiple SRS services for vocab, I would instead recommend focusing solely on Wanikani. Try to get into native material as soon as possible because there is no threshold for when you will finally be able to read and understand all of it - you will always come across new words.

I personally did not do any other studying apart from Wanikani and searching up grammar on google until after level 40 and instead tried (and continue) to include the language as part of my daily life.

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You’ve already discovered the point of WK:

…it helps you systematically learn kanji. That makes it easier to learn vocab, and you’re gonna learn a loooot of vocab along the way anyway. It’s just not gonna deliver anything that you’ll be able to use on your trip - like you said, it’s a long-term investment. But if you like it in general, and you find that learning vocab without learning the kanji first doesn’t work for you… by all means, use it. (Or use another way to learn kanji.)

Later it’ll also make reading without furigana easier because you’ll likely remember kanji better than if you just learnt vocab. (That’s what I’m currently struggling with.)

This sounds stupid but:
Idk if it’s just me I changed the font size of my decks to be a little larger and retaining vocab became 10 times easier which is weird because I have perfect vision.

I advise taking this advice with a grain of salt.

It’s not weird. Written Japanese has a lot more visual detail than text in an alphabetic language. Until you know the characters pretty well, parsing Japanese text is sort of like “sounding out” words in an alphabetic language. Children’s books in English tend to use larger fonts, too.

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