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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1033 of 1702 10 August 2013 at 10:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm definitely doing the N3 in December. I haven't done my practice test yet but whatever the results I'll be going for it. I'm going to forgo any other classes at the school and just focus on Japanese.
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4657 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1034 of 1702 11 August 2013 at 1:05am | IP Logged | ||
Good luck, you'll fine. As you only get one shot a year it's a long time to wait until the end of 2014 for your next sitting. I'll be interested to hear how strict they are in the N3 exam compared to N4. At the London N4 it was very much "only a pencil and an eraser on the desk". It was a swelteringly hot day (for the UK :-)) but we weren't allowed water bottles on the desk. We were allowed them on the floor, just not on the desk. Rules is rules, right :-) Edited by dampingwire on 11 August 2013 at 1:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1035 of 1702 11 August 2013 at 1:31am | IP Logged | ||
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I forget details from last December's N4 (maybe I could check for my posts). It didn't seem as strict as the reputation was. I don't think they would have kicked anyone out for their cell going off for example.
I just did the 1st section of my practice test. The reading is up next which I'm really dreading O.o. I did better than I expected. I got 23/33 but I actually did really well except for one section which really hurt.. really hurt. Just have to fix that one section... heh. It's part 3 on this test.. basically you fill in the best answer of the 4 possibilities. Here's the 1st one (as an example) この携帯電話はボタンが押しにくいという＿ ＿＿を持つ利用者もいる。 １： 関心 ２： 不満 ３： 目標 ４： 我慢 As I read it a 2nd time I am kicking myself for not seeing the stem + にくい structure. Argh. I misread it as stem + に to indicate purpose and of course got confused with what came after. BTW there's furigana on almost all the kanji. I'm patting myself on the back for not needing it most of the time hehe. In the above example, 携帯電話 has furigana and all of the answers also have furigana. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1036 of 1702 11 August 2013 at 11:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Well I am going to cancel the Japanese history course that I signed up for in favor of studying more for the
N3. I really got hooked in this online Japanese institute thing. I still have to do the 読解 part of this N3 practice test but regardless I'm feeling pretty good about how I'll do. I'm thinking in Japanese to myself tons right now. The school has a sort of vacation this week so no sessions until next weekend but after hat t should be a lot of speaking practice. I can't wait. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1037 of 1702 17 August 2013 at 1:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I did the an intermediate session today. I'm always nervous. Their intermediate sessions are geared towards N2 material. So the grammar was new. But it's not terribly difficult to grasp and I did ok. I think I'll mix in some N2 sessions when the lower intermediate sessions are just reviewing stuff I already learned a while back. No fear haha. My impression is that the others were more experienced than I but I could still follow everything and participate.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1038 of 1702 17 August 2013 at 3:05am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm finally doing RTK again but this time modifying the stories to include Chinese sound radicals based off of the Kanji Damage website. I've been doing it a few days now and I've got 189 kanji active in my deck so far. I'm just keeping the RTK order. If I could easily change it to reflect order of usage I'd do that but I'm going through this fast enough that a month from now it shouldn't matter anyway, I'll be done. Which is really why doing RTK in the Heisig order words fine for most people I think. If you're going to finish it rather quickly then what's the point of sweating the order of the kanji so much. Just go with what's easier to make it go faster.
Anyway, although I've forgotten several RTK meanings since I did it, and I've wanted to redo the whole thing, I haven't been able to make myself do it because I'd rather prioritize new vocab/grammar instead. But really knowing the sounds of the kanji has truly piqued my interest. I got into RTK 2 briefly a little over a year ago and got through 500 or so kanji thanks to signal primitives but then stopped. I think this method I'm doing now is going to be much better. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1039 of 1702 19 August 2013 at 8:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I missposted this.. I was looking at my log and thinking something was missing and well.. anyway:
I had another tutoring session with this online Japanese Institute. I had the same tutor as I for a session last weekend. She's super friendly and outgoing and made the lesson fun just as I expected. This time I was the only student so I got tons of speaking practice. Unfortunately, with it being a work day, I wasn't as up for the lesson as I'd have liked. It makes a difference. Being a full time student would sure be nice. One thing I'm noticing about the lessons is that they're doing what my Japanese teacher in class at the junior college did - they're keeping the vocabulary simple and focusing on the grammar. I totally want to improve my vocabulary. Particularly in a lesson where the grammar is review for me. Obviously if I can introduce newer vocabulary myself into the lesson then that's good but it's hard to produce it off the cuff. I did some - I got 顔好き out of my mouth haha. Normally I'm just producing N4/N5 vocabulary when put on the spot and the rest is passive. I am going to have to push myself more to use harder vocab. At least in these classes, unlike my junior college one, if I use my own vocabulary the teacher goes with it instead of discouraging it. I've got more sessions lined up. If I want to I can literally sign up for a tutor session every day. I'm going to sign up for a lot. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1040 of 1702 24 August 2013 at 12:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Tutoring sessions last night and today were helpful but I felt like my brain was under performing terribly in terms of my ability to recall Japanese and speak. Understanding was fine. And I reviewed some new structures. Nothing complicated just not stuff I did in my course. Today we did とめる which seems to be the same as みたい to me. Last night we did ～ほど・・・はない/いない. I hadn't learned it but it's pretty straightforward. One of the other learners on the site is German and I posted a little in in German etc., and I think it hurts my active ability in Japanese. My ability to speak Japanese seems so fragile and unpredictable it's quite frustrating. I was trying to think how to say 暗い and I kept thinking of からい instead and I wanted to throw my web came out the window.. (actually I wanted to comment on how dark my camera image was because I couldn't figure out why it was pitch black).
Maybe it's not German that's to blame but the way Japanese forms words with its emphasis on vowel sounds which is really the opposite of how English loves consonant sounds.. (we end all of our words with a consonant and Japanese almost never does..unless you count ん). Stupid くらい. oh well. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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