Ah, then I suppose it's somewhat the same. The level of the words gets harder, but once you have it down, it gets easier bit by bit to recall the word.

You must be advancing very quickly if you're already to hard words.

[He reaches over and pulls a brush and inkwell close to him, dipping the tip of the brush into the ink to draw a single kanji (春 "spring") on a nearby piece of paper.]

The more you know, the wider your world becomes.