>>516089I learnt all JLPT stuff. Can recognize stuff, remember readings and meanings. Helps with reading, guessing words and looking up shit without entering radicals/drawing. But aside from that, I got nothing.
When I started focusing on kanjis, my grammar, listening skills and everything else was more or less consistently between N4 and N3. And during this kanji-year it stayed exactly like that, because kanjis were such a big effort already I couldn't force myself for additional expose. That was all before Hololive exploded. Thankfully, it did, and I got some really good listening practice.
What I would have changed - never focus on kanji in isolation, like the anon above said. Best way I see it now - if you have some basis already, just try hard listening/reading and translating things, look up unknown words, add them to Anki, add corresponding kanjis as well.
