My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread

@rawpk that's awesome! 30 words a day is a huge accomplishment. I don't think I've ever been able to do that continuously.

I hear you about reading slowly. When I first started reading I was amazed at just how slow it was for me. One of my teachers at JOI recommended reading aloud (音読). I would go to my Japanese conversation group with an NHK Easy News article that I had already read, and read it out loud to them.

I'm not sure if that was a secret sauce or not, but I feel like every 2-3 months I notice an improvement in my reading ability.