I am one of those people that don’t retain information unless I use it regularly, and I learn much better through ‘natural’ means. Most of the words in English I learned through reading books. I figured the best way for me to learn Japanese would also be to read books, or to hold conversation with J…

As mentioned by others, Wanikani is unrelated to a conversational level. Wanikani will help you with reading Kanji but it won’t teach you grammar, and even with vocab you’ll be missing a lot of basic vocab which doesn’t hinge on Kanji usage. You could be at level 60 and not be able to hold a conve…

He guru’d 90% of the kanji on level 7.

The guy is pretty popular on the WK forums. Everytime I saw him, he had that nice and shiny golden lv60 badge.

I’d also like to point out, “Hold a conversation” is pretty vague. If you want to go: You: 寒いですね Them: ですね Then that’s probably a bit easier than if you want to talk about how the Uyoku should just should up and Article 9 is not a big deal.

I know, I was just being an ass :stuck_out_tongue: If you want to know the full story, read this thread

Well, holy shit. Right as I though @Leebo couldn’t be any more of a legend, he goes out of his way and pulls this off. I’m frankly impressed.

Level 0 because you don’t read kanji while you talk

Hold a conversation in 日本語? I can barely converse in 英語, and i was born into that one!

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What level before you can hold a conversation?

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I know, I was just being an ass
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What level before you can hold a conversation?

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