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Core 1000step 1 toos me 6hours to master, core 6000 step 10 took me 2h30.
You can aim for JLPT1 with the core 6k if you have other japanese activities like watching drama, listening to podcasts and reading. I wasn't done with the core 6k when i (successfully) passed the jlpt1.
Don't get your hopes high on the validity of that test tho. I'm far from fluent (in fact, i really suck when it comes to speaking and writting) but i still passed with a high average.
The jlpt only tests your understanding abilities.
This include finishing the dictation for all course and getting at least 3star gold medal on brainspeed for every course.
If you learned the kanji first (with heisig for instance) it shouldn't take you more than 250-300hours, if you didn't expect the course to take 2-3time longer to master.
Also looking at similar numbers to Cedric: 40 hours and (792-104) 688 vocab items are mastered. So 360 hours for ~6200 items, assuming I keep the current rate. I'd imagine you would speed up later on (trained ear for listening and many kanji readings are repeated). That's with RTK lite, so only N2 kanji were covered.
Core 1000step 1 toos me 6hours to master, core 6000 step 10 took me 2h30.
You can aim for JLPT1 with the core 6k if you have other japanese activities like watching drama, listening to podcasts and reading. I wasn't done with the core 6k when i (successfully) passed the jlpt1.
Don't get your hopes high on the validity of that test tho. I'm far from fluent (in fact, i really suck when it comes to speaking and writting) but i still passed with a high average.
The jlpt only tests your understanding abilities.
I get what you are saying about JLPT only testing understanding. Speaking is a tough skill. I'm aiming to go to a language school in Japan at some point for maybe a 1 year course, which will hopefully bring on the speaking and writing better than my current self study with computer and textbooks.
Out of interest, what drama do you recommend? I find they vary a lot in terms of my ability to understand what's going on. Mr Brain was fairly enjoyable for me.