Finally completed Kaishi 1.5k! Been doing 10 new words per day although some days i turned new cards to 0 when i was busy or felt like the reviews were stacking up. So in reality this works out to about 8 new cards per day. I have no idea how people are doing 20 new cards per day without burning out. Decided to pick a slower pace and spend more time on immersion. Also when you think about it, 10 new cards per day is like 7000 words in 2 years which puts you at around N2 vocab wise. i know theres a lot more to it than just vocab, but my point is that small daily gains stack up. Thought about doing a long write up of my experience but instead i'll just put it like this: Reading: I can read graded readers level 1 without any issues. Need to work on my grammar for higher level stuff, but grammar study has become more enjoyable now that there is content i actually understand. Listening: I thought i was horrible at this but turns out that some animes are easier than others. Watching slower animes (based on jiten.moe) without subs is fairly doable. I'm in a good spot to start mining i think. I do run into an issue sometimes where i hear a word i should know but i wont get the meaning until i look it up and see the kanji. Guessing my anki cards are to blame. Output: I dont think i could hold a basic conversation without sounding like a caveman.. I've started doing a bit of writing to at least do something here but i think i'll wait a while before trying something like italki. Moving forward I still have a long way to go but i think i've gotten a solid foundation to keep learning. The plan is to keep going with my Kaishi reviews while also mining for new words, immersion and reading. Anyways seeing posts with people sharing their experience kept me going when things got tough so i thought i'd do the same. Thanks everyone!