>>16
That reminds me, germans can't even do the J sound. I remember one time a german told me he was chuukyuu-sai for age and I was like wtf?
>>10
Sorry but honestly, jouyou kanji isn't enough in today's age. I also somewhat mastered kanji in like 3 years, but one of those years was spent in Japan and I've always been way ahead of my class in kanji. When people tell me they master kanji, it usually means they just mastered the basics or they did heisig and they can't even read simple kanji like 強いる (no, it's not tsuyoiru..) and they read shit like 後ほど as atohodo or ushirohodo rofl
To read at least a highschool level book or higher without a dictionary honestly probably isn't even realistically feasible without living in Japan.