I know around 3000 words in Japanese and I'm curious if I should be using subtitles or not. Anytime I have subtitles on I'm constantly reading them and looking up and down at what I'm watching. Whenever I have them off, sometimes its hard to catch things but I can somewhat comprehend what is going on. My main goals are to be conversational with people when I arrive in Japan in a few months. I have no desire to read books and study grammar heavily. Reading isn't a big factor for my language learning journey. I only know around maybe 600 kanji and I use anki to memorize them. I can write all the hiragana and katakana characters but I could probably only write 200-300 kanji just off memorization. I also don't even plan on working in a Japanese company because of the conditions. I'm a native English speaker so I plan on doing work where I'd use English. Please let me know if I should have subtitles on or off!…