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Originally Posted by Kai13
I know around 4000 + words (I'm not finishing 2kyuu vocab list, and also watch and read one or 2 news articles a day, and learn the vocab there, so yeah, I probably know more than 4000 words)and have been able to watch drama and Ayu ready with no problems. Of course there's stuff I don't understand, but since I have the japanese subtitles for it (dramas) if I don't know any word I just learn it.
Also, since past october that I've been listening to japanese all day (podcasts), in the beggining it was hard and understood close to zero. However, now I can understand most of it.
My listening skills (obviously) and my speaking skills got much better after this.
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Naa, I would say 10,000 words is your bare minimum to be able to fully understand most of the news and some TV programs.
It is said if you have passed the level 1 JLPT you should know around 10,000 words. I have passed it and I still do not understand everything, all of the time. Honestly it is a hard question to answer, cause it will really come down to the topic, and who is talking about it.
But if you wanna just be able to converse with people though, you can get by on a lot less.