(2016-06-14, 2:14 pm)yogert909 Wrote:(2016-06-14, 1:42 pm)ariariari Wrote: But I was also out with a friend recently who just passed the N1. He just started memorizing the 4 kanji phrases (yojijukugo). He reads a lot of novels and now says that he sees them everywhere. So I guess that it happens at all levels!
I've been wondering about these. Wondering how helpful it would be to memorize a few at a sub n3 level. Katsuo has a spreadsheet broken down by frequency. But how common exactly are the most frequent ones?
It's cool to see them all in a list! I am not planning to memorize any now myself, but I do know that I already know 2 of them:
一生懸命
以心伝心
The first one is in textbooks at my level. The second one I learned from coworkers when on JET, and I really liked the phrase, so it stuck!