>>5862676As someone who took the JP pill for a while, after a certain point you are able to retain a decent amount of knowledge so you’ll be able to easily recognize certain kanji outside of the base hiragana/katakana, but being able to read and write it a whole different ballpark than being able to speak it. If you aren’t able to find yourself in a situation where you can regularly converse with Japanese speakers, it does sort of stunt your reps so you’ll end up in the weird headspace of being able to get by just enough when it comes to reading and writing but go full kaigai nikki when presented the opportunity to actually hold a live conversation.
