Yeah, I was at about 550 kanji, passed-N3-level when I signed up.
Yeah some of those kanji look weird if I remember. That, or they have pretty uncommon readings. I would suggest at around the level 20-30s, with most of the radicals done and a good grasp of some of the more common kanji to start looking up medical terms specific to your field.
I wish Japanese was just Kanji hahaha what an freakin’ hard language to learn this is. I think it gets even harder because the way they think is very different. It doesn’t translate as well as when you are trying to learn english from another western language (ex: spanish).
I couldn’t understand the percentage think you said about N2/N1 though hahaha 1% above the kanji i will know by level 60?
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That sounds like a good idea actually hahaha I’ll be sure to do that! I am working in a medical school now here and have many student friends and doctor friends… some of them even lent me medical books (which for now i obviously can’t understand) so i’ll be able to practice when my level reaches a certain point.
Basically N2 kanji knowledge of a level 37 = n1 kanji knowledge of a level 60. (by percent)
Kanji stuffs on n2 feel comfortable to me, so I would imagine n1 kanji stuffs would feel comfortable to a level 60. Basically I was just agreeing with leebo, but with inference.
You may want to conside this tool. Basically you stick whatever you want (news, wikipedia articles, etc.) in a .txt file and feed it into the program. it’ll give you the words in the file ordered by the number of times it appears in the text. You can try and figure out what words are worth picking up and which aren’t.
Aside from that the core 10k deck for anki is popular.
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OOOOH! I get it now! hahaha thanks! That makes sense! Hope you are right 
Btw! Wheredo i get the N3,N2, N1 practice tests?
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That sounds complicated but useful… i might just use it! Thank you!
Also, do i just find that at the Anki website?
http://www.jlpt.jp/e/samples/sample12.html (ty leebo)
日本語能力試験-JLPT／N2
日本語能力試験-JLPT／N1
Those are what I’ve used. There’s other stuff out there tho. I don’t actually plan on taking the N2, only the N1, so I haven’t done much searching. Im sure if there is something better, you can either find it by looking around or having another user link it.
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Holy shit, if this works well then I may just fall in love with you.
Time to put all the text from the visual novel I’m playing in there.
There’s all kinds of crazy shit buried in the Kanji Koohi forums 
Thank you i’ll be sure to use them!
I’m planning on only taking N2 and N1! But it’s good to have the tests to practice and see how far i’ve come!
I just passed N1 in December and vocab and kanji where my highest scores. I have a book series I used from N3 which I think has been very helpful for this. They are great because they provide many of the structures and words that appear around each vocabulary so you can get a feel for how each word is used. Good excercises too, definitly helped me get better with particles.
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As a fellow med person who has done a three month internship in Japan I have to ask: Why do you want to take the N1? For foreigners the N2 should be sufficient. After that, you can focus on those medical practice books and look up the medical terms separately.
N1 covers some stuff you nearly don’t need in everyday life or your work. You will loose a lot of studying time for the state examination.
It’s another story if you just want to try it for personal achievement. 
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Oh thank you! I’ll definitely look into that! And you passed N1 while still in level 53 #impressed
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I’ve done internships in Japan too, both clinical and research, and while for that purpose you don’t really need any type of Japanese certification, from what i’ve researched up until now, to be able to take the Japanese National Exam to become a doctor here, you need to have the N1 certification.
I got all this information from online forums so by no means oficial but it made sense and I always wanted to become a badass at Japanese so i took on the challenge.
Also, in some places i can already practice as a doctor here in Japan but only for foreign patients (i think maybe even only for patients from my country) so it’s very limited and it’s not how i’d like to be able to practice in Japan if do ever live here forever.
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I see. I thought only asians have to pass N1.
I wish you good luck on your studies! 
I once thought about taking that path, too, but Japan is not as advanced in the field I want to specialize in. So I will stay in Germany and go on holidays to Japan.^^
To be honest i’m not even sure if it’s what i’ll do but i’m keeping my options open!
What’s the field you want?
@Raionus it would appear you have earned my love. Sign here.
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Urology and transgender medicine.
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