I’m an American exchange student studying Japanese at Waseda currently. I’ve been studying seriously for around 2 years now and my reading skills have always been my strongest ability. I went to a local bookstore and semi-randomly selected a short book to practice reading. This one is a light novel and when I began reading the first page, I could actually understand quite a bit (more than I expected; I went in thinking I’d be totally lost) and go along with the story. It’s just I realized my vocab needs a lot of refinement to get anywhere near a native level, and as a result I had to look up several words by the first half of the first page. I didn’t expect to make much progress the day after buying it (long-term project maybe?), but I’d like to know if there are any tips others have for acquiring fast vocab + kanji knowledge. Anyone else doing or has done this kind of thing and could share some tips? Any advice appreciated!
by Psychological_Age194