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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6407 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 49 of 256 28 August 2012 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ah! Now I suddenly realized why I thought I'd read your log before. I confused your names "dampingwire" and "rewire."
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| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4488 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 50 of 256 28 August 2012 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Grats on finishing Heisig.
I never made it - always fell asleep. :) Gonna try again some day. Maybe when I'm really desperate and need all the help I can get, next year, when I move to Japan. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4452 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 51 of 256 04 September 2012 at 10:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2012-09-02 19h
Kanji reviews now at about ~30m per day (usually first thing in the morning, before coffee!). 69 entries in bucket #1. Just one more season of JPOD101 to go (the Upper Beginner one). I'm only up to Chapter 8 of Minna No Nihongo. My tutor put me through the last part of the N5 prep stuff and I'm still recovering :-) I've been working through that more slowly, trying to pick up any missing vocabulary and trying to work out which bits of grammar I'm missing. I've noticed an N5 grammar section on JPOD101 so I'll tackle that soon. Memrise is going quite smoothly now. I'm keeping the N5 garden watered and occasionally visiting the other ones. The kanji are beginning to stick now, although I've yet to switch to writing them down when required (rather than typing in kana and letting IME switch for me). I've not started N4 yet. This coming week looks pretty busy so I don't think I'm going to get very far with anything. JPLT N5 registration day is looming so I need to decide (along with my tutor) whether I should sit it in December or wait till July. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4452 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 52 of 256 04 September 2012 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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BTW, has anyone tried out this book:
http://shop.whiterabbitjapan.com/japanese-language/jlptn5/th e-preparatory-course-for-the- jlpt-n5-yomu-learn-kanji-vocabulary-grammar-important-forms- of-speech-and-conversational- expressions.html "The Preparatory Course for the JLPT N5, Yomu: Learn Kanji, Vocabulary, Grammar, Important Forms of Speech and Conversational Expressions". I hear contradictory opinions. Can anyone remember what it's like to be down at sub-N5? :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5769 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 53 of 256 04 September 2012 at 11:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm, the same people published a set of three books for the N3 level, covering listening, reading and grammar. The listening book and the reading book were by far the best books I could find at that level. I struggled to work with the grammar book, but to be honest I struggled to find a rhythm for preparing the grammar section anyway. On the other hand, I learned a lot of useful stuff from the reading and listening books beyond simple exam preparation. I can't speak for the N5 book, having never used it, but on the whole I think their JLPT materials are some of the better quality ones out there.
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4452 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 54 of 256 11 September 2012 at 11:33pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the input. Given the limited amount of time I have until December, plus the need to get through Minna No Nihongo by then (plus some of the JPOD101 grammar + JLPT lessons), I'm not going to have time to start a new book and make reasonable use of it. Of course, come January I may find I do have time :-) But hopefully it won't come to that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4452 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 55 of 256 11 September 2012 at 11:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2012-09-09, 23h.
Kanji reviews @ ~35m and box #1 is at 59 cards, so something must be sticking. Memrise is chugging along. I really will start the N4 vocab course soon :-) I've started to work through Minna No Nihongo more systematically now. I've briefly run through the grammar sections and summarised them (electronically). I'm going to go through them between now and the end of September and expand the notes as required. After that I'll run through each chapter fully (both the Japanese book and the English grammar description), although that will probably take me until November to get done. I've now started to repeat some of the JPOD101 seasons, and there seems to be some meaning managing to penetrate the fog, at least some times! I'll probably pick a specific point in a season soon and start to work through the lesson notes systematically and then repeat those lessons to see if that helps keep things in my head more efficiently. Just a few more years of slog and I'll be able to watch simple anime :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4452 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 56 of 256 18 September 2012 at 9:02am | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2012-09-16 21h45m
Kanji reviews ~30m, ~65 in box #1. Memrise still ticking over with the relevant gardens being kept watered. Still listening to JPOD101 audio every day; I've picked on Beginner Season 4 and I'm now repeating its 50 lessons. I'll keep repeating it until I think I understand most of what's going on first time through. I'm now working through the Minna No Nihongo grammar in detail. I'm up to Chapter 13 so far and it mostly makes sense. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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