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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 73 of 256 09 October 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm using this one: http://www.memrise.com/set/10002844/jlpt-n5-vocab-5/ which says: Created by jlptbootcamp, Aug. 14, 2011 So, I guess the answer is yes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 74 of 256 15 October 2012 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2012-10-14 31h
Kanji reviews about 20m. 50 cards in box #1. I've been keeping Memrise up to date. I've played with Anki but not started the Minna No Nihongo vocabulary learning in earnest yet. As for Minna No Nihongo, I've completed up to Chapter 13. By that I mean for each chapter I've read through the grammar again, worked through all the examples and worked through a reasonable amount of drills A, B & C. Each chapter is taking 30m to 45m to complete. Audio still ongoing. I think my main problem is that there is a pretty varied vocabulary in each lesson (at least in Beginner Season 1, starting from lesson #50 or so). I do go through specific lessons working on the vocabulary and (sometimes) the line-by-line audio, but mostly I'm trying to consolidate grammar points rather than too much vocabulary (as that's what I think will be most helpful for the N5). (Edit: fixed the W/E date) Edited by dampingwire on 23 October 2012 at 1:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 75 of 256 23 October 2012 at 1:26am | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2012-10-21 23h30m
Kanji reviews about 20m. Under 50 cards in box #1. Memrise still up to date. Anki not yet seriously started. I'm now up to Chapter 19 of Minna No Nihongo. I've worked through some of the drill sections but I've left the bulk of them for revision. I've also not tackled the audio sections yet. Audio still bubbling along. I'm now into the last 50 of Beginner Season 1 (for the second time ... this is the mammoth 170 lesson series). The grammar points make sense, but the vocabulary needed for each lesson now is quite specialised and probably unnecessary for JLPT N5. I'll stick to Memrise and Anki for the serious vocabulary training. I'll go back and SRS each of the JPOD101 lessons at a later date. The grammar exercises so far (and the drills set by my tutor) are showing me that I need to sit down and learn the basic counters more thoroughly so that I can produce and recognise them (more) rapidly. The same goes for some of the verb conjugations (I can, for example, produce the -て form from a verb infinitive, but I cannot go the other way, or at least not sufficiently quickly). I see drills ahead :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 76 of 256 03 November 2012 at 10:07am | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2012-10-28 17h45m
Kanji reviews about 20m. Memrise OK. Anki pending. Completed up to Chapter 22 of Minna No Nihongo. I've now finished JPOD101 Beginner Season 1. It definitely feels well past the "beginner" stage by the end. Flew to Italy on Friday for a holiday (and back this Friday) hence the delay in the update (and the brevity of next week's update :-)). I see that my JLPT N5 voucher arrived via email on Saturday - so definitely no avoiding it now! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 77 of 256 07 November 2012 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2012-11-04 5h
On holiday in Italy for most of the week; returned on Friday. I did read some of Barron's Japanese Grammar during a thunderstorm one evening but otherwise it was Italian all the way. Came back to a 2-1/2 hour catch up for the Kanji (split into manageable 30m chunks!). After that reviews settled down to the usual 20-30m. I'm pleasantly surprised that, even though I've not seen a Kanji all week (unless you count some Chinese characters on the door of a Chinese restaurant), I don't seem to have forgotten too much. I've yet to catch up with memrise. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 78 of 256 12 November 2012 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2012-11-11 20h
Back (almost) into the swing of things. Kanji are back under control: 20-25m each day and 46 currently in box #1. I've also caught up with memrise. I've now been through all 25 Chapters of Minna No Nihongo. Over the two and bit weeks that remain before I sit the JLPT N5 I'll be going over the main grammar points again and again ...). The JPOD101 audio listening continues apace. I've started Upper Beginner Season 1just to have something new. My Archos MP3 player died. I'd bought in in March but MyMemory claim they can get away with dropping all support after 6 months! Anyway, I'm now using an old iPhone 3GS as an MP3 player. I've ordered (and received) Minna No Nihongo 2 (Japanese + English Grammar). I'll not start working through those until after the exam though - I've enough to be going along with for now. I also thought I'd try "Japanese the Manga Way" just for a lark. I've found it quite compelling. It starts from the very basics but it does cover each of its points in quite some depth. Some of the explanations (such as for のです/ん`です) are the best I've seen so far. I'm really quite pleased with this one so far. OK, that's enough for now: back to Minna No Nihongo 1! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 79 of 256 19 November 2012 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2012-11-18 26h
Kanji humming along at 20m/day. Memrise also under control, although the move from beta to V1 has left the website unusable (for me) on some days. That has, however, spurred me on to get going with Anki, so now I'm supplementing the memrise N5 vocab with some I've put into Anki from Minna no Nihongo. I've continued to review Minna no Nihongo grammar. I've read through to lesson 19 of Japanese the manga Way: I'm finding it to be a comfortable review of what I've learned so far. I don't think the "casual speech" part of it is going to help with the N5 at all, but it will help with "real Japanese". JPOD101 audio is still progressing. I'm now back onto one of the newbie series as I want to hear as much simple (i.e. comprehensible) audio as possible in preparation for the upcoming N5. I sat the N5 mock listening exam that my tutor asked me to do and it wasn't as bad as I feared it might be. Mind you - it's not yet been marked (no lesson this week) so I may yet eat my words! Two more weeks of concentrated effort and hopefully I'll be ready for the December N5. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 80 of 256 27 November 2012 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2012-11-25 23h
Kanji and vocabulary (both memrise and Anki) are seemingly under control. I tried the N5 Vocabulary test, the 25 minute one, and managed to get through it in 20 minutes. There were one or two tricksy ones in there but I think it mostly went well. I'll try the 50 minute Reading test tonight and see how that goes. I've already tried the Listening test (see previous log entry) and scored just over 60%. There will be more testing this Wednesday with my tutor (short tests, a little of all three types) and then it'll be the home stretch. I'm still listening to the JPOD101 audio during the commute and some of it has definitely sunk in: particularly the vocabulary and the grammar. Whether any of it manages to seep out and on to the exam papers on Sunday is the $64 question I suppose :-) I also managed to finish Japanese the Manga Way: overall I like it. I liked the layout and the explanations, in particular the Japanese -> broken English -> English plus the more detailed explanations of the various points. Parts of it were a simple refresher and parts of it go beyond the grammar that I've covered so far (although not too far beyond it: I think that by the end of Minna No Nihongo II I'll have covered pretty much all of the new grammar). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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