Hello! So, some background on me--I've studied Japanese for three years, including some immersion stuff. I can speak about everday stuff very well, but when I get into any sort of jargon things get difficult. I can recognize a lot of Kanji, maybe about 1,000, but I can't produce all of it.
I'm trying to improve my vocabulary through reading. Sources online tell me that at the point I'm at this point I should be avoiding dictionaries. I think that the people who say that are thinking of languages like French, or Russian, where I could pronounce the words I manage to guess. My kanji knowledge isn't at the level where I could always guess which reading a word is using, and many of the books I'm interested in don't have furigana. How did/do you all use dictionaries during your intermediate phase?
Thank you!
I'm trying to improve my vocabulary through reading. Sources online tell me that at the point I'm at this point I should be avoiding dictionaries. I think that the people who say that are thinking of languages like French, or Russian, where I could pronounce the words I manage to guess. My kanji knowledge isn't at the level where I could always guess which reading a word is using, and many of the books I'm interested in don't have furigana. How did/do you all use dictionaries during your intermediate phase?
Thank you!