Japanese Skills Survey

[Yeah Way]

I wouldn't be surprised if this has already been done; but if not, it really ought to be here. I for one am very curious of the amount of people who consider themselves capable here on this forum of comprehension of Japanese.

[Funnerific]

Currently in the middle of learning grade 3 kanji, but I don't know most of the basic grammar and vocabulary.

[DimDito]

Kanji is always the most troublesome part. 

[Funnerific]

I don't have a lot of problems with it. Remembering it by the most common meaning and without learning the readings is simple enough. Going for the readings would make it nigh impossible, and even the meanings range pretty badly sometimes.

At my current pace, I can learn 20 new kanji and 25 new words by spending 3 hours a day (though I can't always find the motivation, unfortunately).

I don't know if one could rely on machine translation to handle the kanji, but it kind of sucks to read VNs in windowed mode. But in any case, the more kanji you know the less discouraged you get when looking at actual Japanese text, so it's kind of a confidence boost.

[zoom909]

Won't you have to learn the readings eventually?

[Zakamutt]

I'm somewhere in between the first and second, since I can do #1 but I don't know the readings or more than one potentially misleading meaning for the ~600-700 kanji I can recognize (plus I don't learn in education order.)

 

I'm not sure if I should tick the causes one because I still get confused by は vs が sometimes despite tae kim's, plus not many helper words or w/e you call them like から etc.

 

Meh, ticking only first option then.

[Funnerific]

Won't you have to learn the readings eventually?

Not really, you just learn them along with the words that use said kanji.

[zoom909]

Not really, you just learn them along with the words that use said kanji.

 

What about when you want to look up a word that you don't know?

[Okami]

I can read and write Kana and I can understand some basic sentences and some random often used words. I am planing to start learning Kanji but I am not sure if I should maybe learn more words first.

[Funnerific]

What about when you want to look up a word that you don't know?

That can be trouble, but with some effort you can find the needed kanji through radicals using this http://jisho.org/kanji/radicals/

[Zhiroo]

I can read/write Hiragana/Katakana and about 30 Kanji so far. Also can understand a lot of short sentences that I've picked from Anime

[Yeah Way]

Where is the "None of these." option?

Haha, knew I forgot something! xD

[DimDito]

Haha, knew I forgot something! xD

You actually added that option... 

[Yukiru]

Seems like not many people also learn readings. I do, by the way.

[Suzuki-san]

I've bought the textbook "Genki I", and I've come to the 4th lesson now. I can read (but not write by hand quite yet) both hiragana and katakana. Haven't touched kanji yet, though I know some of the very basic ones (time, day, month, weekdays etc.). It's really fun though, so I'm definitely going to keep studying!

[Mephisto]

私はあほやな～

 

God I hate your dialect. 

[suikashoujo]

I said that I could do kana, basic kanji, and some clauses, but I'm really only ~halfway through even the basic kanji, and I'm pushing my way through a grammar book I picked up at a thrift shop. Kanji is getting easier for me as I get used to it, but I still have a loooong way to go.

[cryofrzd]

Advanced kanji is quite ambiguous I think. Advanced as Jouyou kanji or Jinmeiyou/Hyougaji?

[Flutterz]

I can read kana and I can recognize a few basic sentences as well as a couple of common kanji, but that's about it.

[Bolverk]

Funny I can read loads of kanji's, but I can't write them. So I can't really tick of the boxes haha.

私はあほやな～

 

God I hate your dialect. 

Kansai dialect? Either way I agree that's annyoing indeed lol.

[Yeah Way]

私はあほやな～

 

God I hate your dialect. 

関西弁さいごやで！大好きや！もう関東弁しょうもない～。

[shcboomer]

私はあほやな～

 

God I hate your dialect. 

や this, や that. Such dialect.

[RusAnon]

Funny I can read loads of kanji's, but I can't write them. So I can't really tick of the boxes haha.

Same here.

Not sure why one would even bother learning to write in this age, I don't write by hand even in my native language.

Also, applied for this summer JLPT, taking N3. I know much more kanji and words than needed for it, but my vocab is mostly VN-based and doesn't align well with what needed for N2/N1, so doing it gradually.

[Yeah Way]

や this, や that. Such dialect.

それよりもっとややこしい。（でもそれも多い「や」やな。w）

[Bolverk]

Same here.

Not sure why one would even bother learning to write in this age, I don't write by hand even in my native language.

Also, applied for this summer JLPT, taking N3. I know much more kanji and words than needed for it, but my vocab is mostly VN-based and doesn't align well with what needed for N2/N1, so doing it gradually.

I suppose it's needed if you are going to do tests and do general living in japan or something. I honestly have no plans for either for atleast some time, so I just focus on reading and grammar.

That being said I do want to pass the JLPT N1 exam once. Luckely I am not in a hurry to do that.

 

Good luck on your exam!