Reddit mentions of 2500 JAPANESE VOCABULARY WORDS FOR THE JLPT LEVEL 2 (Trilingue Japanais- Anglais- Chinois) (N2 (2))

Have you tried studying from vocabulary books like the N2単語 book or N1 even. Also I noticed in another comment you said you read a little manga but that's it. What about trying to read novels? The reason I say that is because you would be going over dialog and descriptions as you read thus reinforcing what you know and helping to correct bad habits by seeing the correct way things are phrased and worded. Another option may be to find a tutor that can help you by having them correct your speech and work 1 on 1 with you to work out what you need to do.

Other than that, I mean you are probably way more fluent than me when I felt I was stuck (though my situation was different than yours), what really helped me was a lot more studying of grammar and vocabulary and more reading.

Thank you, /u/wilontherun for /u/Lil_Giygas, for your compliments! I really appreciate your feedback!


I feel like I'm still in between the N4 and N3 level (except for Kanji, as I know about 1600 so far because they're lots of fun), but I'm still learning and trying to review the grammar and vocabulary I learned thus far for those levels. In the meantime, I bought books and some architecture magazines to practice reading, but novels are still a bit above my level in terms of vocabulary. My hope is to start studying N2 material (grammar and vocabulary in this book) to make reading and using the language easier. I'm still working on the listening portion, as I find it can be hard to pick out words or understand completely stuff I hear from TV shows and in podcasts (aside from words, I find people speak a bit too quickly or almost mumble, like with old people).

I don't get too much of a chance to speak because I'm self-studying in Canada and haven't yet visited Japan. I think those two things I need to figure out a way to improve those two. I have some JLPT listening books, and I try to listen to audio recordings and TV/ movies to bring my listening comprehension and speed up. As well, I'm now trying to practice writing composition. It's still a bit slow and take my time, and I need to edit what I write. I'd like to improve to the extent that I can write university-level essays coherently like native speakers can.


I'm sure with more work I'll get there eventually. :)