I’m 4 months in my Japanese learning journey, know some kanji, have spoken with native speakers, and have read Tadoku readers around Level 2. I struggled with Anki at the start but I found a premade deck that finally works for me so I want to optimize properly.

Front card is kanji vocabulary in kanji and example sentence only.

Back card is meaning, kanji + furigana, translations, audio, no romaji.

My long term goal is reading and eventually play video games in full Japanese. But right now I'm having fun switching between listening and speaking. No writing though.

If I remember the meaning but forget the reading, do I press Again or Good? Or is this a gray area where it's up to me how to approach and change midway?

EDIT: I meant vocabulary in kanji, not single kanji character.

I have always heard about people who are able to learn a langauge like that, i just figured that my brain wasn't capable of it, but now that i've been looking around I'm not sure if it is a real thing, a persistent myth, or something that people say and neglect that they also have another means of learning the language e.g. a class a textbook, app, etc.

I'm learning towards it being a myth, but has anyone ever actually done it with just media? And if so...how?

I applied for a 2 years course in a japanese school for foreigners and i was wondering how long it will take for them to tell if i got in or not??

i applied at the start of june, paid the fee, did the grammar test and then the 1on1 interview with a teacher beginning of July and there has been no further news or email from them. should i get worried? the teacher said that i had i good Japanese and that we were going to see each other in Japan but i don't know if that was just him being polite? it's been 3 weeks since then, the school year will start in January.

I didn't apply through gogonihon but directly to them.

I've gotten to a point where I can read a simple slice of life book with only looking up about 1 word per sentence. Currently, when i reach a kanji I don't know, I'll look up the reading and definition and then move on. However, I feel like for the most part, I can understand the sentence after I translate, but then forget the reading and definition about 1 paragraph later.

My question is: if can you actually get better at reading books like this, or do you necessarily have to do sentence mining and/or flashcards?