SpiritSephiroth posted... The thing I did to progress quickly was I read even though I couldn't understand. It's exhausting but it works.
A few tips for this process.
1) Don't look up every unknown word until you reach a stage where you rarely encounter unknown words. Instead only look up words that look familiar (this means you've seen it enough times that you're starting to recognize it on sight) or that it feels like you should already know.
2) Mix reading challenging material without furigana and easier material with furigana. The challenging material will push your limits and force you to learn kanji. The easier material will help you get used to reading for fun and for long periods of time while also letting you develop instincts for how to properly read kanji with context sensitive readings (like when to read as and when to read it as ) as well as letting you catch when you've been reading things wrong for a long time or mixing up similar looking kanji. So read without furigana until you get tired, then read with furigana until you run out of free time.
3) Don't get stuck. If you don't understand what something means or which reading is the correct one even after looking at a dictionary, just ignore it and move on. You'll understand it in the future, so just keep going for the low-hanging fruit.
4) If you get bored with whatever you're reading, switch to reading something else. Otherwise you might find yourself starting to hate reading.
I'll give this a try! Was just finish up part of my homework so I'll read some now.