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dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 73 of 91 20 September 2015 at 1:54am \| IP Logged
	I'm now working through 新完全マスター N2 文法 again. This time I'm putting particular emphasis on getting through the exercises. I start by reviewing the grammar points and then work through the questions. As I do each one, I'm trying to make sure that I have a solid reason to discard all but one possibility (i.e. doesn't fit the formation, doesn't match the requirements for the main clause etc.). Where I can't do that, I make a note and then go back and check the grammar notes afterwards (as well as thoroughly re-checking any that I get wrong). I'm hoping that by concentrating on the details of the exercises, it will provide something for my brain to "hook" on to and remember the grammar points. Working through it this way takes about one hour for each chapter. Allowing a week for final checks, I have about 8 weeks left and ~48 chapters to cover. So if I get through one a day, I can finish my second pass through the book. I suspect that it will be tough to keep up that kind of pace, but I may as well try and see how far I get! 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 74 of 91 21 September 2015 at 5:02pm \| IP Logged
	Cool! Now I can panic on a daily basis :-) 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 75 of 91 22 September 2015 at 10:50pm \| IP Logged
	I've just checked the twitter bot webpage and I just need about 100 pages to finish the Super Challenge. If I keep up the amount of reading I've been doing I may manage that this week, or certainly I should manage by next week. In fact I want to get to the end of the book before I move on to 新完全マスター N2 読解 book, and that's maybe 400 pages, so another couple of weeks before I reach that goal. I may decide to compromise and slow down on the book and ramp up 新完全マスター. 2 persons have voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 76 of 91 28 September 2015 at 8:07pm \| IP Logged
	I've just updated the SC twitter bot with last week's reading and it now says: "Read 100.7 books" so I've finally finished the SC! (Although I'm still going to keep going to the end of the book ... another 200+ pages or so). 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 77 of 91 30 September 2015 at 12:08am \| IP Logged
	So I've come up with a new strategy for 新完全マスター N2 文法. For each "chapter": 1. Read the grammar points and examples in detail. 2. Read all the explanations and enhance my notes as needed. 3. Do the exercises and check them. 4. For each exercise answer, note exactly why each incorrect one is incorrect (e.g. adjectives not allowed before 際). 5. If necessary: enhance notes further, note which ones I still don't get and investigate. That's more work than I've put into it up to now, but I'm hoping it will pay dividends. I'm not going to start from the beginning of the book again, but I'll carry on from where I am. If it doesn't seem to help, I'll revert to what I'm doing now. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 78 of 91 03 October 2015 at 8:05pm \| IP Logged
	I've just finished working through 新完全マスター N2 聴解, apart from the mock exam section at the very end, which I'm leaving for later on. It looks like it has taken a shade under two months to get through it at a reasonably leisurely pace. I'm certainly going to go through it again to try to consolidate the hints and tips: I should have just about enough time between now and December to get that done. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 79 of 91 15 October 2015 at 12:46am \| IP Logged
	I'm not sure how I've managed to use Anki for so long without working out what the "Mark" button does! Anyhow, I've marked all the as-yet-unactivated katakana words (and some hiragana ones too) and activated them all in one go. All of them are words that I think I already know (although I suppose tomorrow will be a better test of that than any assertion I make now!). So tomorrow my deck will start with ~400 cards to review, which is about double the number I normally have. However, thanks to this exercise, I now have under 900 words left to activate from the N2 memrise course. At 50/day I should get through those (almost) by the end of October, which leaves me November for consolidation. I really would like to walk into the JLPT N2 exam with at least the feeling that I have enough vocabulary to make a decent stab at it (even though I realise that there is no longer an "approved" vocabulary list and the exam setters always allowed themselves a certain percentage of off-list words anyway ...). Once that settles down I may try another manual pass to mark up the words that I think I know reasonably well, which should leave me just "new" vocabulary to work on after that. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 80 of 91 19 October 2015 at 12:13pm \| IP Logged
	I read a brief BBC article about the anime Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人) and noticed a link to a Japanese version of the article. The same video clip plays on both, except the one linked to from the English article has an English voice-over. It looks like there are plenty of other articles too. Probably not news to anyone but me, but I thought it'd be worth mentioning anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful

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dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 73 of 91 20 September 2015 at 1:54am \| IP Logged
	I'm now working through 新完全マスター N2 文法 again. This time I'm putting particular emphasis on getting through the exercises. I start by reviewing the grammar points and then work through the questions. As I do each one, I'm trying to make sure that I have a solid reason to discard all but one possibility (i.e. doesn't fit the formation, doesn't match the requirements for the main clause etc.). Where I can't do that, I make a note and then go back and check the grammar notes afterwards (as well as thoroughly re-checking any that I get wrong). I'm hoping that by concentrating on the details of the exercises, it will provide something for my brain to "hook" on to and remember the grammar points. Working through it this way takes about one hour for each chapter. Allowing a week for final checks, I have about 8 weeks left and ~48 chapters to cover. So if I get through one a day, I can finish my second pass through the book. I suspect that it will be tough to keep up that kind of pace, but I may as well try and see how far I get! 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 74 of 91 21 September 2015 at 5:02pm \| IP Logged
	Cool! Now I can panic on a daily basis :-) 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 75 of 91 22 September 2015 at 10:50pm \| IP Logged
	I've just checked the twitter bot webpage and I just need about 100 pages to finish the Super Challenge. If I keep up the amount of reading I've been doing I may manage that this week, or certainly I should manage by next week. In fact I want to get to the end of the book before I move on to 新完全マスター N2 読解 book, and that's maybe 400 pages, so another couple of weeks before I reach that goal. I may decide to compromise and slow down on the book and ramp up 新完全マスター. 2 persons have voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 76 of 91 28 September 2015 at 8:07pm \| IP Logged
	I've just updated the SC twitter bot with last week's reading and it now says: "Read 100.7 books" so I've finally finished the SC! (Although I'm still going to keep going to the end of the book ... another 200+ pages or so). 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 77 of 91 30 September 2015 at 12:08am \| IP Logged
	So I've come up with a new strategy for 新完全マスター N2 文法. For each "chapter": 1. Read the grammar points and examples in detail. 2. Read all the explanations and enhance my notes as needed. 3. Do the exercises and check them. 4. For each exercise answer, note exactly why each incorrect one is incorrect (e.g. adjectives not allowed before 際). 5. If necessary: enhance notes further, note which ones I still don't get and investigate. That's more work than I've put into it up to now, but I'm hoping it will pay dividends. I'm not going to start from the beginning of the book again, but I'll carry on from where I am. If it doesn't seem to help, I'll revert to what I'm doing now. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 78 of 91 03 October 2015 at 8:05pm \| IP Logged
	I've just finished working through 新完全マスター N2 聴解, apart from the mock exam section at the very end, which I'm leaving for later on. It looks like it has taken a shade under two months to get through it at a reasonably leisurely pace. I'm certainly going to go through it again to try to consolidate the hints and tips: I should have just about enough time between now and December to get that done. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 79 of 91 15 October 2015 at 12:46am \| IP Logged
	I'm not sure how I've managed to use Anki for so long without working out what the "Mark" button does! Anyhow, I've marked all the as-yet-unactivated katakana words (and some hiragana ones too) and activated them all in one go. All of them are words that I think I already know (although I suppose tomorrow will be a better test of that than any assertion I make now!). So tomorrow my deck will start with ~400 cards to review, which is about double the number I normally have. However, thanks to this exercise, I now have under 900 words left to activate from the N2 memrise course. At 50/day I should get through those (almost) by the end of October, which leaves me November for consolidation. I really would like to walk into the JLPT N2 exam with at least the feeling that I have enough vocabulary to make a decent stab at it (even though I realise that there is no longer an "approved" vocabulary list and the exam setters always allowed themselves a certain percentage of off-list words anyway ...). Once that settles down I may try another manual pass to mark up the words that I think I know reasonably well, which should leave me just "new" vocabulary to work on after that. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 80 of 91 19 October 2015 at 12:13pm \| IP Logged
	I read a brief BBC article about the anime Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人) and noticed a link to a Japanese version of the article. The same video clip plays on both, except the one linked to from the English article has an English voice-over. It looks like there are plenty of other articles too. Probably not news to anyone but me, but I thought it'd be worth mentioning anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful