>>23786562Years ago, with university throwing a giant wrench into everything. I barely finished Genki 2 at the time, and all learning since has been through exposure. So I understand lots, but I couldn't come up with it by myself for the life of me.
Nowadays I'm grinding through the kanji and expand my vocabulary. A little less than a year and I'll have covered 2300 kanji + key vocab, then I'll continue properly learning grammar.