I just love how there is an anime about just everything 
So educational! Probably 
I’ll try to take a look into all recommendations I get, but being on crunchyroll obviously makes it easier for me.
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Now that I’m reading “石けんのひみつ”, I’m pretty glad I got all those chemistry related words from Dr Stone, they DID come in handy!
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hooray! 
Today is finally the day! All N4 items made it into my review queue 
Feels totally huge, like I climbed a mountain or something Not sure where to go next yet. Maybe I just sit on top of this mountain for a bit, enjoying the view. The next mountain is already visible on the horizon, waiting to be climbed, too. I’m already hyped for that, too.
Maybe it’s time to reflect a bit on my journey and progress so far?
It’s almost been two years, now. I’m very happy, that I never had a longer pause or fell off the waggon even though I do struggle a lot with my health, leaving me unable to learn every now and then. The beginning of my journey had been chaotic as I tried basically every tool, site, app there was out there until I settled with bunpro last october and got lifetime I’m still team “duolingo is a great tool for beginners”, I’m aware that’s controversial.
I would consider my journey as very successful so far My main goal for learning japanese is actually the progress of learning, as I just love learning languages, the process of learning vocab, doing reviews, making new connections, understanding more, it’s very satisfying. So I’m very glad I decided on japanese, as this is a language you can learn for a decade without becoming too proficient. All my learning decision were made with a focus of enjoying the progress, which kept the spark alive for almost two years and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
My secondary goal is to understand manga/anime/light novels, and I’m right on track here I can already enjoy easy manga and very easy anime and as time progresses I will only become better with them. But if it takes a few more years, I don’t mind at all.
Where do I go from here? Well, N3 is the next step obviously. With the next wanikani lifetime sale I’ll start kanji. I’m already hyped for that. The only reason I didn’t do kanji yet was, that I didn’t need them so far. But now that I can theoretically start reading harder manga, many come without furigana (at least the ones I really want to read). And though I don’t feel like I’m at light novel level yet, the ones worth reading for me obviously don’t have furigana either.
Longterm, I see myself totally getting into yakuwarigo (character role grammar). That’s way more interesting than regular speech grammar (for me). I haven’t looked into it yet, but I guess all good ressources for that will be japanese only. So I have to wait a bit more until my japanese progressed enough to really get into it.
Anyway, time to party 
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You spoiled what the 250k exp badge looks like! 
But seriously, congratulations. Taking some time to let everything sink in and feel good about what you achieved, and then moving on to new stuff sounds like a good idea.
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yeah, that’s my go to language, too