I actually did a post-mortem today on it, and my self-evaluation is that my reading automaticity (that is, kanji/kana, familiar word processing speed) has significantly improved and I’m much more comfortable with complex sentences than I used to be. I also picked up a lot of new grammar. My vocab and kanji knowledge remain strong for my level.
The downside is, after doing an analysis on my notes about where I was getting tripped up, I have some foundational issues with comprehension and rules of grammar that need shoring up, things the book didn’t address. I think I’m going to do just that next month and push the next guidebook (a test prep book) to May.
Congrats on finishing the textbook! Now that you’re on the other side of it, do you feel like going throught it was a big boost for you?
But yeah, I’d definitely enjoy reading a thread with your thoughts overall on the intermediate stage.
I actually did a post-mortem today on it, and my self-evaluation is that my reading automaticity (that is, kanji/kana, familiar word processing speed) has significantly improved and I’m much more comfortable with complex sentences than I used to be. I also picked up a lot of new grammar. My vocab and kanji knowledge remain strong for my level.
The downside is, after doing an analysis on my notes about where I was getting tripped up, I have some foundational issues with comprehension and rules of grammar that need shoring up, things the book didn’t address. I think I’m going to do just that next month and push the next guidebook (a test prep book) to May.