Quote:
Originally Posted by SceptileMaster
Well 500 kanji is pretty good if you only have gone through an elementary Japanese book.
|
No, I'm saying, categorically, that 500 is a horrendously low number, and I was thinking more after you finish Yookoso Vols. 1 and 2, which would be a 2-year affair. I would hope you'd have 15/wk*52wk/yr*2yr=1500 by then. Even 10/wk means you'd have over 1000.
And as for supplementation with a kanji workbook, that is precisely what I was advocating. Kanji in Context is a good book.
If you finish both Yookoso books, you're very nearly at JLPT2-level grammar, but you're about at JLPT3 kanji and vocabulary.
That is what I meant by not enough emphasis placed on kanji (and vocab).
So grammatically, you're well-prepared to read the newspaper, but nowhere near prepared on a vocab/kanji level. You'll spend another year just learning enough kanji to catch up to your grammar level.