Hello, guys. I started my Japanese Journey in February of 2022. Since then I bought Genki 1. But in two years I have only done the first 6 units, basically half the book. Despite my super low level 2 years ago I got into text heavy videogames JRPGs and mostly Visual Novels (or as Japanese call the genre アドベンチャー) with a dictionary. I played サクラ大戦、逆転裁判, 真・女神転生 and アトリエシリーズ mostly. I powered through them with a dictionary (at the beginning at a turtle's pace and I had episodes that I burnout and quit Japanese for like 3 weeks or 1 month 😅). For some reason, I didn't have the motivation of sitting down in front of a book and instead playing these game gave me so much more motivation despite it being a far more taxing activity. I guess I need more discipline 😅. I also been using The Kanji Study app to study kanji by grades. Right now I'm studying the fourth grade ones (for example, the last kanji I drilled today was 笑, whose 音読み is しょう, as in the word 微笑 (びしょう); and 訓読み are 笑う (わらう) and えむ, as in the word 微笑む (ほほえむ) and it's meaning is "laughing" or "smiling".)
Recently I did mock tests of both N5 and N4. I passed both of them. I didn't ace them, though. Despite possessing more advanced vocabulary due to all the immersion I went through the games, I didn't know some words in the N5 test. I even asked Chat GPT to make an assessment of my level and according to the AI my level is around N3 and I should focus on studying N3.
So, recently I've been fondling with the idea of ditching Genki 1, and not go through Genki 2, and immediately go for Quartet 1 or Tobira. Would you suggest I continue with the 2nd of Genki 1and move on to Genki 2, or would it be better if I jumped to Quartet/Tobira instead? My concern if I do the latter would be that I'd be leaving behind vocabulary and grammar points. So, what do you think?
by GeorgeBG93