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steps to JLPT 1Archive for August, 2008
あと102日: JLPT 1994
JLPT 1 – 1994
文字・語彙 : 46/90 or 51/100
聴解 : 21/27 or 78/100
読解・文法 : 15/22 (68%), 26/38 (68%) = 137/200
Total: 266/400 or 67%
Still almost there… Listening is satisfactory, but yeah, my vocab is so embarassing… *soobs*
あと103日: JLPT 1994
JLPT 1 – 1994
文字・語彙 : 46/90 or 51/100
聴解 : ?/? or ?/100
読解・文法 : 15/22 (68%), 26/38 (68%) = 137/200
Total: ?/400 or ?%
Needs 92% for listening to pass… *gasp*… Will leave that for tomorrow, is tired now…
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 1993 + HP
JLPT 1 – 1993
文字・語彙 : 55/90 or 61/100
聴解 : 19/28 or 68/100
読解・文法 : 14/22 (64%), 64/74 (86%) = 146/200
Total: 275/400 or 69%
Just… a little bit and I’d pass it…
I score better on stuff I usually don’t and I score worse on stuff I usually do better. Hmph. I used only 48 minutes for reading, though, could’ve spent more time for thinking. The third part of reading was easiest, but I did stupidly on the 2nd question =(
Anyway. I started Harry Potter today. Reading on the train and bus, probably 1.5hrs…? Have to minus the distractions, though. I started from chapter 2 (seems like I finished chapter 1 before), page 35~59. And I didn’t get to re-read the English version first since I just realized that on the train. But it turns out to be okay-ish. I still understand the flow of the story. But I wonder how long would it take to finish this book… more than 1 month…? That’s a long long time…
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…
あと１２３日
Only this much days left. I must get more serious in studying. Especially when my resolution to get out of this country and move to Japan by early next year is getting stronger. I’m trying to make a daily schedule. Of course based on the past, it never works. But better than nothing still.
Book to finish:
1. Book 9 before August ends, is done in the train. Basically just go through the exercises and read the examples. No memorizing except for a few that I actually wrote on my memo pad. Book 9 is good that it tries not to introduce too many things at once and it has furigana for some hard words.
2. Book 3. That I didn’t get to finish. I’ll also try to type in Anki one chapter per day. Also 30-60 min. The grammar review is important. It’s supposedly an easy way to score. So I want to max my effort on it.
3. Book 8. This book is hard. The amount of vocabs is ridiculous and is presented all at once. But I want to try to go through the vocab lists as I think book 9 is not enough. Maybe type in Anki. Probably take 30-60 min. I’m not sure when I’ll finish it, but it’s not my priority to finish it.
I guess these 3 books are the ones I’m using for now. I’ll probably get the reading book again, but I’m not sure, depends on how good I’m doing with the past tests (is slacking on that again btw).
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