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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6606 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 617 of 1702 02 December 2012 at 7:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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Buy a watch. Wear it for the test. Then give it to somebody for Christmas :p
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5170 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 618 of 1702 02 December 2012 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'm trying to think who I can give it to.. Hmm my nephew had a strange affection for clocks a couple years ago.. I wonder if he still does... I wonder how old he is... Gonna text my sister. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5170 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 619 of 1702 03 December 2012 at 3:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well it's done. I think Idid better on the practice test I took. The practice test did help me in terms of
understand the instructions and what kind of questions to expect. But I wasn't as focuI'm back at d... Or lucky maybe I think as when I did that test before. The tests were very similar. In terms of strategy, I'm going to write down the question right away on the listening section. If I forget the question I don't think its enough to listen to the content and then listen to the question again unless the material is easy for me. Most of it really pushed my Japanese to its limit. I think I did must ok on the first section... I know I missed an う in the kanji for 工事. Which has me pissed. But all the others I remembered to double check on my phone after the break were ok. The reading section was my best until they announced 5 minutes left. Then I panicked and didn' . Focus well enough to answer ANY questions. I'm gonna practice reading for the test a lot for next year. The people I took the test with were really great. It was fun getting to know more people who are studying Japanese. It's a shame we don't live near each other so won't see each other again. I'm back at my hotel. It's such a bad neighborhood. I think I'll take the test in San Francisco or somewhere else next time. Their having it in such a scary neighborhood really makes me not want to take the test. Boston. They have it in Boston and I know the area there and it's way safer. Not in LA again for me if it's at university of southern California. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4651 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 620 of 1702 04 December 2012 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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FWIW I sat the N5 in London on Sunday.
The exam rules that were sent through beforehand did indeed look very scary. But in practice the invigilators were very helpful. No-one checked that my pencils were HB, I was allowed more than two pencils, I could have my spectacle case on the desk so I could swap to reading glasses at the start and back at the end, and they didn't bat an eye-lid at my jeweller's loupe (which, as it happens, I didn't need, since everything seemed slightly bigger and clearer than the practice tests). I even heard/felt someone's phone vibrate (during one of the written tests) just as one of the invigilators was walking by and she didn't bat an eye lid. That said, the test papers as well as the answer sheets had to be labelled with name and number, so I presume the warnings about taking away a paper or recording one during the test were actually quite serious. Their time-keeping wasn't so hot - overall we finished 30m beyond the scheduled end. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6606 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 621 of 1702 05 December 2012 at 3:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey! How come you haven't signed up for TAC 2013 yet? Surely you're not thinking of leaving us...
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4651 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 622 of 1702 05 December 2012 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
I've been thinking about something like that and I'm quite tempted really ...
I don't think that, logically, I can leave before I join. Did I join and then forget? :-) I'm happy to give the TAC a go, but a pointer to the "rules" would be good. I have plenty of audio to listen to and 10 hours per week when there's nothing else I can do. I have various things I can read (mostly textbooks plus some other material that's too hard for me :-)). Do I just sign up here: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp? TID=30236&PN=1 ? Anything else I should know before I sign in 血液? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6606 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 623 of 1702 06 December 2012 at 8:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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dampingwire:
I was actually asking kraemder. He's been in TAC for two years. If you want to join, you are also welcome. There aren't really many rules. You don't have to be at any particular level and you study at your own pace and in your own way. The only thing you have to do is make a commitment to hold out for a year, keep a log, and read the logs of your teammates in order to help and encourage each other. It's lots of fun. Unfortunately, a lot of people drop out, but those that stick the course usually have a good time, learn a lot, and become friends. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4651 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 624 of 1702 06 December 2012 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
From browsing the first 50 messages in your TAC 2012 log it seems that TAC's enough to get you from "I've forgotten everything" to "I can read HP with relative ease". So on that basis, how could I say no :-) I've got to stick with it as I really want to reach the stage when I can hold a reasonable conversation with my Japanese colleagues before they go back home in 18 months time! I've got at least a year's worth of "commuting audio" to get through, a few textbooks to complete and plenty of JLPT past papers. I'm sure that I can find somewhere selling a Japanese Harry Potter Volume I if I try hard enough. So here goes ... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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