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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5988 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 105 of 137 01 September 2013 at 10:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Congratulations on passing N4!!
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5190 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 106 of 137 01 September 2013 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Nice results on the N4. I am gonna check mine for comparison when I get home. An A on the reading really
impresses me since I found that section really a pain in the butt. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4671 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 107 of 137 02 September 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
I'd noticed with N5 that my reading was very slow, so I certainly tried to find more material to read when leading up to N4. Even something as simple as the last exercise in the later chapters of Minna no Nihongo was enough to boost my reading speed. Obviously I still can't read "real" Japanese at any kind of speed (I still need furigana and an electronic dictionary) but I've certainly sped up my reading of the kind of things that seem to crop up on N4. It also helped that I'd got a reasonably solid grounding of the vocabulary. As I recall there were only one or two words in the whole test that I didn't recognise; that meant I had a lot more time available to worry about the grammar. Certainly before I go anywhere near N3 I want to make sure that I have enough vocabulary sorted to feel that the reading should be within my grasp. I assume that there will be more grammar and that the listening will be harder too, but I'm trying to work on those more systematically now. I think I'll probably try to make time to tackle Harry Potter 1 soon. I expect that it will be a long hard slog at least for the first few chapters, but it would be good to try to work through it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4671 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 108 of 137 05 September 2013 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm pressing on with the N3 vocabulary. The section titles have word counts in them ,
for example 1756 - 1770. Towards the end these (manually generated?) section titles seem to be slightly off. By my count there are 1815 individual words (and the same number of corresponding kanji). I've now planted 1740, so with a slight push tomorrow I'll have everything planted (not counting the kanji). That's been at the cost of not watering over the last few days, leaving 600 plants wilting as of now. By tomorrow that's likely to be ~900 or so. But that's OK as a few days of steady watering should get through those in a week at most. So far I've managed to stick to the plan. RTK has been kept up to date and is pretty quick. I've concentrated on the planting for memrise. Anki has been ignored for now. That means I've had time to work through some grammar and 3 lessons of intensive listening. Hopefully once I get memrise under control I'll have time to get my Anki decks reviewed. Any excess time beyond that will go into more listening or more reading, depending on what seems more necessary at the time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4671 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 109 of 137 27 September 2013 at 1:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm tempted by a Kindle for £49 (a special offer it says in the email from Amazon).
It's this specific one:
User-available storage is ~1.25GiB. 600MiB would cover all the JPOD101 intermediate and advanced PDFs (in fact, the actual requirement would be less than that since many of the lessons are available in both embedded and non-embedded formats). It would be quite convenient to have access to PDFs whilst sitting in front of the TV, for example. In addition, it seemingly sports a browser, so I could make my electronic notes available to myself that way too. The downside seems to be that acquiring content via amazon.jp is somewhere between "difficult" and "impossible". Seems appropriate for a device that I intend to use to help me with my Japanese :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4671 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 110 of 137 02 October 2013 at 1:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Time to review my September goals.
1. I'll continue with audio.I'll not set any goals other than to actually do as much listening as possible and to not waste any occasions. Done. 2. RTK: I'll keep this up to date. Done. 3. Memrise. My aims are to have the whole course planted and watered by the end of the month. Done, with time to spare. 4. I'll make grammar notes (and study them!). Done (well, MNN II that is). I've been revising as I go along but now I'll go over things on a more regular basis. 5. Every other day I'll work on shadowing and learning a JPOD101 Lower Intermediate lesson. I;ll start with season 1 and work through in order. I'll make sure that all the new vocabulary and suitable sentences have been entered into Anki as part of this exercise. Done. I've shadowed 15 lessons as expected, but I've processed all 55 lessons and added vocabulary and sentences to Anki. I've also started to produce dialog tracks for the first 30-something lessons(for some reason they were never available on the website). 6. Anki: if any time is left over, I'll go through the various Anki decks I'm using. I've been keeping bits of Anki going, although I expect that now I'll have more time. So I've managed to meet or exceed all my goals for September. I'll sit down and produce some goals for October sometime tomorrow or Thursday. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4671 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 111 of 137 02 November 2013 at 12:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I've just noticed that my spreadsheet says I've clocked up 2100+ hours so far (over
nearly two years). I've been doing some intensive listening of various lower intermediate audio lessons and I think it's beginning to make a difference. I can certainly follow more of the 40 or so dialogues that I've listened to attentively and repeatedly than I can for the ones that I haven't. I've finished making notes on the みんなの日本語初級 books. I want to finish working through All About Particles too, although I'll skip the particles I've not yet seen, at least for now. I've dipped my toe into the memrise N2 course but I'm concentrating on the N3 course for now. I've pushed a little with Anki to get through all the vocabulary for the JPOD101 lessons that I'm trying to study intensively. I've also logged all the kanji vocabulary in A Homestay in Japan: I've still got two weeks before I go through this book with my tutor so hopefully I'll be able to internalise a good chunk of that between now and then. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4671 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 112 of 137 07 November 2013 at 12:24am | IP Logged | ||
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I never did post any goals for October, so there's no review pending. Here are some
goals for November. 1. For the audio I'm now listening to just dialogue tracks. I'll probably go back to lessons at some point, but pure dialogues seems to be quite useful at the moment. 2. RTK: I'll keep this up to date. At some point I need to consider working though the last 1000 kanji but at the moment hardly unknown kanji are cropping up. 3. Memrise. I have the whole N3 vocab course planted. I need to get the kanji vocab planted too. I think I'll aim to plant 50/week on average. So the target here will be 200 by the end of November. I have also started the N2 vocabulary course but I'm not going to set any targets here. 4. I'll study the notes I've made on the Minna no Nihongo chapters. This will be useful basic revision but I don't want to take too much time over it. There are 50 lessons, the earlier ones obviously being much more basic. I'll aim to have revised everything by the end of November. 5. Every day I'll work on shadowing one JPOD101 Lower Intermediate lesson. I only have about 5 more from season 1 to finish. There are 26 lessons in season 2, so with a bit of effort, I should be able to finish season 2 by the end of November. 6. I'll keep Anki up to date but I'll also aim to cover 600 new vocab words by the end of November. As I'll be continuously adding new vocab each day anyway I'm not sure how to track this. I'll probably set the deck to not present any new vocabulary and then I can use Custom Study to learn a set number each time. I'll track that in my spreadsheet. Memrise & Anki reviews together are taking no more than 45m each day. Shadowing a lesson takes about 15m. So if I still have 14 hours per week of non-commute studying, then shadowing plus keeping vocabulary up to date will take about 8 hours. Another 2 hours for the lesson plus lesson preparation, leaves me 4 hours for everything else. So that's about 30 mins per day for both the grammar work and the additional vocabulary. That's tight but not entirely unrealistic. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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