Hi, so today I finally studied the very last kanji from the renshuu made schedule for N1. I have studied all other JLPT kanji schedules obviously, and got quite a high (like 98% mastery level) for all of those, except N1 as you can see on the screenshot. I love kanji, and I wanted to ask for those more advanced than me, what should I do next? (Besides reviewing my current kanji, which I'll ofc do)
Congrats. It depends what you want to accomplish. If you’re looking for “the next level,” the ten Kanji Kentei list sets are an obvious choice. There are some characters in there that most Japanese speakers don’t know though.
If you’re more interested in mastering all the characters you’re likely to encounter on a day-to-day basis, then a list based off of common names would be a better choice. I don’t have a recommendation here, but I do have a list I grabbed from Wikipedia that you might want to look into.
I am not advanced yet, but I know about some things by looking ahead. Getting to JLPT N1 is good, but don't expect that to be all of it. Kanji kentei (kanken, for short. Nihongo kentei is the language proficiency equivalent) requires almost 3x as much kanji knowledge. That is, if you were to go all the way with that, you'd learn over 6,000 kanji. Passing Kanken 1 would be impressive, as would 日本語検定.
But not even that is everything. If you wanted to go all Super Max Plus Ultra with it since you're into kanji so much, to know all kanji one could theoretically use, you'd go to the source. The Chinese dictionary, Zhonghua Zihai, contains 85,568 characters known in existence. If you wanted usable Japanese version in that context, then the 大漢和辞典 list of over 50,000 kanji is for you. This is the boundary perhaps for now.
Thanks guys, for now I'll definitely look out ポールおじちゃん's list, but I think what I'll do for the most part is simply creating a list based off all those more obscure kanji I might encounter while learning new words when I read novels.
Thanks guys, for now I'll definitely look out ポールおじちゃん's list, but I think what I'll do for the most part is simply creating a list based off all those more obscure kanji I might encounter while learning new words when I read novels.
Thanks to the both of you!
Congrats Blud! Btw how much time did it take for you to complete all schedules in renshuu, ik it's a dumb question and depends on the user's everyday frequency. But I practice everyday not missing one.
Kanji's always been my weakest link. After over 10 years on and off (probably around 4-5 properly studying) I'm only half-way through N2 (with lots of random kanji thrown in the mix). How's your actual reading ability? I'm often unable to read kanji that I have no problem getting right on a quiz.
I'm considering reducing vocab and focusing more on kanji. I know way more words than I have on Renshuu, I just have trouble reading them.
PS: I agree with ポールおじちゃん, either Kanji Kentei or 人名用漢字.
Took me about 21 months studying every single day. For N1 though I studied about 2 new kanji a day.
PS: I'm still not done with N1 grammar, close to completion with N1 vocab though
Lol It has took me 2 years to reach n3 kanji and I n4 grammar and words. I just took so much time in reviewing n5 and achieving perfection I forgot to move on. I have to speed up. Thank you!
Reading ability, I'd say it's fine. I read A LOT, especially novels, so I think that payed off for the most part. Also mindset is what helped. A lot of people see kanji as a pain, something intimidating, and although it is it helps more than does any harm. I always wanted to know more about kanji, always wanted to learn more of them, so the trick was to keep the reviews quite high with new terms being quite low, so while I was studying N1 reviewing N5 through N2 was a breeze. Though the only thing I struggle with a lot (and surely many other people too) is handwriting kanji.
Overall with the right mindset and by being consistent anyone can progress nicely.
You can take a look at my Common Non-Joyo Kanji lists, the first couple lists contain kanji quite commonly used, more so than quite a bunch of the joyo/JLPT lists.
Wow you really are incredible and fast! 2 years only is impressive 👏 I just started kanji even though I know my katakana isn't so great yet. But mindset keeps me going. I have to keep going if I want to be a j pop idol🙃😄🫠
Otsu on getting so far! Honestly, kanjis are the easiest/fastest to study in between commuting to and from work/outings, so i have found myself working them more. You can check users' vocab lists to find new kanjis and make your own kanji list
