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今日
JLPT1 is over.
How did everyone else go?
Not sure if I can pass, but I did what I can.
The listening wasn’t too good, unfortunately. I wish I did that part better.
Finished the grammar part really fast and I think it was alrite. But the reading wasn’t too good. I don’t understand that soundscape thing. Agh. The vocab, some are very familiar words, but some are not. Not sure.
It’d be great if I can pass then I can put it in my resume. If not, hmm, not sure if I’m gonna take it again or not. Maybe when the harder exam comes out in 2010. That is if I still feel I’d need a JLPT certificate.
Hmm. So. I might still continue this blog as I’m still learning Japanese. あたしってまだまだだなあ〜
What am I gonna do now is probably do Kanji Odyssey, which I heard good comments of. Try to fix my basic kanji again. And read novels. And manga. And websites. Then if I’m not lazy ANKI them. =d
But yeah, will start on Kanji Odyssey today, and make sure I ANKI them well.
あと13日
JLPT 1 – 2000
文字・語彙 : 50/90 or 56/100
聴解 : ?/? or 70/100
読解・文法 : 16/22 (73%), 24/36 (67%) = 141/200
Total: 267/400 or 67%
Aghh.. Zetsubou shitaaaa…
Need more studying. I was tricked with the first reading. I got the wrong impression. So I answered wrongly. The correct answers are the othe option that I considered. Agh. I was tricked!
Most importantly is to study more vocabs reading. Maybe my Anki is doing good as I can recognize kanji readings better in the readings section. Let’s see if it does good tomorrow for the 2001 vocab section.
orz. Really, you can see how my vocabs really suck. Why is that??!
[edit] Finished Matome, the kanji part. Ah. So tiring. There must be more than 900 cards in total now. Though there are few duplicates. Maybe will do the vocab exercise from that book after finishing 2001 (in one go I hope) tomorrow. Hm. Will try to finish chapter 2 of Kanzen goi as well.
7 more past exams to go. Though I still can’t find the 2006 one.
あと14日
Woke up late today. Trying to squeeze in watching anime as many as I can (not necessarily for learning/pleasure purposes). Will probably do bunpou only after this. Needs to finish up 1 exam tomorrow, at least. =(
Went thru Kanzen master goi till 2-2. I want to do the exercises, but I guess that’ll come after I read and put to Anki all the vocabs presented. Still have the grammar CD repeating on my speaker. It drives me nuts, yet I don’t think I recognize all, I only catch very few of them… But I still believe it’ll somehow help.
JLPT 1 – 2000
文字・語彙 : 50/90 or 56/100
聴解 : ?/? or 70/100
読解・文法 : ?/? (?%), 24/36 (67%) = ?/200
Total: ?/400 or ?%
[edit] Though at the beginning of the test I felt that I could answer the questions smoothly by instinct, towards the end of the first part of bunpou… it failed. ;_;
Hope I’ll still score good for reading tomorrow. It has been 5 concurrent wins against readings. =3
[edit] Distracted again. I really just can’t concentrate on one thing. Now trying back with matome. Actually, the kanji list is pretty good. There’s quite a range. Wonder why I didn’t go with this before. Goi is really more to basic words. I think I need to study the kanji more. Putting in Anki now. Still skipping the exercises. Will do after I finish with the kanji part first (first half of the book). Finished 10 chapters in one go. =_=; There’re 665 cards in Anki now.
あと15日
Slacked for a few days. orz
JLPT 1 – 2000
文字・語彙 : 50/90 or 56/100
聴解 : ?/? or 70/100
読解・文法 : ?/? (?%), ?/? (?%) = ?/200
Total: ?/400 or ?%
Vocab as bad as always. =(
[edit] The listening is cut halfway. I’m not sure how to mark this. Since at the beginning of the second part, I only scored half. =( Assuming what I did is all of the question, I’ll get 16/22 (73%). If assuming I only score half for the second half, I’ll get 22/33 (67%). Let’s just say I got the middle point. So, 70%. Haha.
[edit] I’m so random. Trying to improve my vocabs. Currently going through Kanzen master goi 1-2 and inputting words I dunno to Anki. Currently at 1-3. They grouped the words by themes. Didn’t do the exercises, so went through the first 2 chapters fast. Currently I have these in Anki: Pattern, Gokaku dekiru first half of kanji list, and random vocabs from JLPT, plus now Kanzen goi.
I always cram for exams (of course I’ve studied them before to some extent). But when I’m cramming for Japanese, it just doesn’t seem right.
あと104日: JLPT 1994
It’s my birthday today, but my vocab result went bad again… *soobs* I thought I had the wrong way to study vocabs… Now I’m trying to go through and Anki-ing all vocabs that I don’t know the reading. I’ll focus more on the reading instead of their meanings. I hope I can go through 100 in one day, probably only inputting 25 of them to Anki in one day. I should focus more on the Moji part. Those similar readings are so evil…
For the grammar, I’ll give up trying to type a book by myself, instead I’ll use the already typed one. One example per each grammar point, that should be enough. I’m not sure if I should still go with the pattern vocab book, because there’s just too much vocabs in it… =( And it’s rather painful to edit them one by one to Anki… Maybe at least I should finish the first chapter, which has like 300 vocabs… (still up to around 80 now)
JLPT 1 – 1994
文字・語彙 : 46/90 or 51/100
聴解 : ?/? or ?/100
読解・文法 : ?/? (?%), 26/38 (68%) = ?/200
Total: ?/400 or ?%
[edit] Hm, bunpou is so-so, not good enough to pass, but not too bad. But I’m too sleepy to continue with reading or listening for now… Will continue tomorrow.
あと110日: JLPT 1 / 1993
JLPT 1 – 1993
文字・語彙 : 55/90 or 61/100
Hmm, improvement.
聴解 : 19/28 or 68/100
Nuoooooohhhh….. what happened?!
文法 : 64/74 or 86%
Whoahhh…that’s a huge improvement…?!
I forgot about the scoring and found some jlpt 1 forums… I love the encouragement feelings I got from reading posts by those who are on the same path =3
Another thing, I’m actually not interested in old old novels, I’d rather read something more interesting. I’m trying to finish Bocchan. But since they come with free audio as well, I guess I can spend 15 minutes per day just to listen while reading, as suggested here. 33 audio files, so, roughly a little more than a month. He’s fast… starting only in late 2007 and already reading Harry Potter in early 2008?! So fast… I wish I was braver, I’d be perapera by now since I started studying like 10 years ago…?
The other method I found was Dr Movie (see link ->). It’s interesting, since I got mixed up between readings quite often, maybe it’s useful to learn all the onyomi. And it doesn’t seem to hard to find the sentences… I guess taking it from songs is the easiest, and you can remember while listening to it, rather than taking it from drama/anime/manga scripts.
あと１１１日: Book 9 + English
Reaching to 100 days left… *shiver* I’ve received my JLPT form, but I haven’t filled it in. Ah it’s due on 1st September, I shouldn’t postpone sending it too long.
I finally finished book 9 after trying hard on the train every weekdays. I’m quite proud that I actually finished it, though I can’t remember all of the words, some I even still don’t understand since I didn’t want to bother opening dictionary… =_=;; But I don’t want to linger too long on the book. But I did get some of the words. It was helpful, in some way… Anyway I’m glad I’m done with it, except for the final exercise.
I’ve been looking forward to read ハリー・ポッターと不死鳥の騎士団 starting tomorrow. I’ve read some of the first pages few weeks ago. It has some furigana, but not until to the very basic. But I think still quite manageable compared to reading Kyou Kara Maou. Of course reading the English version first helps. Since I forgot the details, I’ll read one chapter in English then back to Japanese. Though I suppose I can also read my long bought stacks of manga which has 100% furigana… All in all, I’m just trying to rich out my vocabs by reading more.
I still haven’t done other past JLPT. I guess I’ll do it now, since I can’t seem to focus on uni works…
[edit] Speaking of progress. I just thought of this recently. There was also time when I was still studying English,… I like to read those teenage novels. Probably when I was around 中2 or so, I still opened dictionary and looked for words I don’t understand and write them on the novel. I don’t think I did that so long, since after that I just read it anyway, whether I know the words or not.
So probably I should do that too now. I should not write words meanings on novels and just try to read them. I started blogging in english and can read normal english novels when I was in high school. But LOTR was still too hard for me, I wonder how it’ll be now… Of course not that I’m that proficient in english…
I remember when mom was studying english, she tried to read english books, but was too concerned with words meanings, so she read too slow and of course progressed slow, compared to her friends who just read on without dictionary. I also read some comments about this on some blogs… It’s true, isn’t it…
