Hi, I know this is a quite opened ended question, like "how many words do you need to … etc etc… " But all the same, I’m interested in anyone’s input.
Is it really possible to comfortably read a newspaper knowing the jōyō list of 2000-ish Kanji? Or is the list just the start of literacy?
I understand that the list doesn’t touch complex-kanji / kani-compounds; are these relatively easy to guess from their structure and context?
Thanks.