Well, I don’t have reasons to not believe to you Terrillo, but I’m a graduate in Japanese and I have much much much to learn, before reaching the level where I understand it like you seem to do. That’s really weird…My classmates claim to understand roughly 60% of random anime and much less in the writing department. You studied 1500 kanji…do you mean kanji or 単語?
To understand quite well (not perfectly) newspapers it is said (and I can confirm) that you should understand about 6000 words and Noryoku 2 grammar, which is much.
If you are listening without major gaps in listening comprehension you should be at level 2 at least. If you are at level 2 after about 8 months (and you didn’t study kanji for 2 months) you are really a genius (and you could be). I’m interested to know how you can be sure to understand quite everything while listening/reading. I would also like to ask you to share how you digested at least 6000 words and kanji (as you say you read Jappanese) in 6 months. That would be very interesting and quite usufull for the average Japanese learner. Did you studied the vocabulary? SRS them? Or more traditional ways?
Japanese grammar is really difficult…I thought it was simple when I was a beginner. I meet everyday some grammar I don’t understand but maybe it’s only me.
As for the new language, I would like to study Swedish, but it’s really hard for me to study a new language 'couse I’m struggling with Japanese yet:-)
