I saw on another thread that you passed!! おめでとうございます！！！
Yep, passed indeed! Thanks a bunch C:
Go for N3! I’m sending you the courage bits you’d need in order to make it so!
In a non-quote related conversation, I had a lot of time to process and journal today and JLPT has been a big topic of the journaling as well, so here’s some of my highlights xdd
- Going for exams in general serves as a pretty good excuse to ground yourself and commit to a specific cause: I still struggle a lot with the straight A-student syndrome, but I have a feeling I approached the grind in a pretty healthy way, so maybe I’m finally learning not to be so hard on myself. I heard a while back that if you approach learning something from an angle of self-hatred, you will hate yourself even more by the end, but if you approach something from an angle of self-love, self-love will multiply and give you back ^^
- Exams are not just something that’s a goal for yourself, it’s also a social experience, works from many different angles: as an excuse to make new friends, as an excuse to keep doing things with friends and as an excuse to celebrate something with friends that aren’t going to be doing things with you, but they love you all the same and want to celebrate your successes! Looking back, the decision to go back to Japanese of July 2024 has completely pivoted how I’m thinking about working together with people or celebrating things with people, so I learned something new ^^
- Not to downplay my achievent, but the 95/180 score I got (xdddd) feels extreeeemely fishy (xdddd). I’m not saying there was a divine intervention from one of the people that was grading the work, but, hmm, is “thank you” the right word I should be thinking? On one hand, I would probably have been fine if I didn’t pass, as I didn’t need the exam for anything, and if I had something like 120 points, that would’ve been boring, having exactly 95 points was probably the funniest outcome I could’ve had from the exam, it’s both amusing, humbling and motivating at the same time xdddd
- At this point I’m all in for the ride, I’ve kept a straight every single day streak on Bunpro ever since I’ve written JLPT, so let’s keep going for now, let’s see where will the motivation take me xddd
- My next exam is probably not Japanese, but something like German B2, so it’ll be interesting to see the differences. If I applied the techniques I currently use to study German, I bet I would probably become C1 in no time, with all of the posters around, all of the people I can speak with, the fact I can read the language mostly effortlessly and the fact I’m no longer so tired listening to German. But that’s still probably a few months away at least ^^
Either way though, 合格しました!!! That makes it twice in a row xdddd
I dm’d my Italki teacher as soon as I saw the score and she celebrated my success too xdd
A from Grammar (Bunpro) and A from Vocabulary (WaniKani), and a bust from everything else, sounds about right xdddd
January 31st, 2025
- 92 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 42 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 lessons on Bunpro
- 1 lesson on Duolingo
- Misc: 3 episodes of 薬屋のひとりごと
Self-care day definitely, went to a hairdresser, got my eyebrows done, took a passport pic, made my own breakfast, listened to a lot of The Bright Sessions (I’m almost at the collab with another audio drama I love: Ars Paradoxica!) and got myself to watch The Apothecary Diaries again.
So there’s two words for today:
蜂蜜、はちみつ、honey
素直、すなお、honest
I’ve known both of those before, but there’s something about the way how those words sound that makes me intrigued in them. The first one is fuzzy feelings, because I saw it in 薬屋のひとりごと, of course, the second is from the soundtrack of 新すばらしきこのせかい, they just roll of the tongue, don’t they ^^
Also, I’m sad I didn’t get this one right the first time, grrr xddd
Tomorrow Korean tea ceremony for the lunar new year and meeting up with friends, should be fun ^^