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Originally Posted by mj31382
Currently at JLPT4 (new system). Planning to take JLPT2 end of this year.  |
Better to spend your time studying on foundation, especially on advanced grammar. You don't just need to understand the grammar constructs and fixed expressions, but need to know the subtle differences between all the similar constructs. Translating won't help you in that. Translating and reading will actually help you in your reading comprehension by leaps and bounds and improve your skills beyond the academic constraints but provided you have the academic foundation to start with. It will also be a lot more rewarding to read and translate after that (the ah-ha moment on encountering something you learned and able to understand better is invaluable), rather than trying to apply guesswork every now and then, and attempt to learn new and foreign stuff through translating. Racking your brains over obscure, long sentences which are hard to understand because of insufficient foundation will just demotivate you from this arduous hobby (unless of course you don't actually care about what you are pumping out for the leechers).