I did similar thing to the author about 10 years ago. What I found after completing that portion of study was that I could recognize any character I saw. This g

I did similar thing to the author about 10 years ago. What I found after completing that portion of study was that I could recognize any character I saw. This gave me the ability to quickly perform dictionary lookups on any text. This gave me incredible access to reading. Through reading I was able to acquire vocab 5 times faster than just through listening. It really gave me a significant boost. I got to usable language pretty fast as a result.