Thanks for replying you guys! Well, japanese is a hobby and I don't plan to live in Japan nor will have the money to visit it with my family anytime soon. So, although I'm not in a hurry, I actually did set a "5 year goal" to pass the N1 JLPT test. Of course, I set this plan back in the day when I didn't even knew a single hiragana character so I'm not positive I'll be able to do it exactly this way..! Anyways, I do consider test taking as a very useful learning method. Settings goals and having a date, a score, a challenge... That just gives me the motivation I need! In fact, I am so serious about test taking I have to travel for hours just to take the JLPT and KanKen exams in my country. Unfortunately, no july exams around here. Just KanKen by october and JLPT by december. Ultimately, I want to acquire a decent reading skill soon, so I can get to read more exciting japanese light novels instead of just simple manga and children books. I know I could just try to read whatever I wanted right away but it just infuriating to go to the dictionary every 2 words and still don't get it..! My japanese italki tutor says I should just take it easy as well. She spends a lot of time correcting my grammar mistakes and homework! Perhaps I will just keep trying both KanKen exams and the JLPT so that I can do as many tests as I can intead of worrying about actual results right now! If I get by the end of the year knowing 500+ kanji and a whole lot of vocabulary, perhaps it was worth it! Oh, I'm not done even with KanKen 8 yet! I hope that Bu Sensei channel covers level 7 as well anytime soon! Thanks again for the help guys. Appreciated that.
