You shouldn’t be correcting it. The system is there because sometimes the program will say “Correct, but can you say this informally/in another way? There is an exception at play here.”. At that point, you need a way to erase your answer and input the more “correct” one. It’s not meant to be used to correct your wrong answers.
Thinking back, that was kind of a bad example on my part.
I have a questions about the N5 exam. I am thinking about taking it. I started learning Japanese a year ago. I started with Japanese for Busy people (through evening classes in my city) and in september we changed to Marugoto. I’ve now started the third course with the second Marugoto book (A2 level). I’m level 7 on WK.
When I look at the preview questions, I’m a little worried. I do understand the gist of most of it, but I don’t really understand all the words yet.
What is the best thing to do now to prepare for the exam?
Good question!
Edit: You are already using Bunpro, right?
Yes! I’ve started Bunpro as well.
For vocab training, ordered by JLPT level, I use Renshuu. It helps me reinforce vocab I’ve seen on WK, and learn words WK doesn’t teach (kana-only words, for example)
don’t forget tho that wanikani doesnt specialise on teaching daily use vocab or katakana vocab
does anybody have some kind of Renshuu “tutorial”? I tried using it but the interface is super confusing
I think so too!
I’ve been using it, but have no idea how it works!
But the dictionary on it is excellent, full of really good well-explained example sentences.
Just found this little gem: How do I start using Renshuu? - #5 by brrricane
Just once.
You’re about almost exactly where I was at when I took the N5 last December. I was level 5 or 6, and had about half or 2/3 of Genki 1 completed. I barely passed. Now, you have 5 extra months to prepare so you should be well on your way to passing, just keep progressing. I’d suggest getting listening practice in (plenty of practice audio online for this). The JLPT is separated by sections and is scored in a way that, if you fail any section, you fail the exam, even if you have an “overall” passing score. I’d continue on the path that you’re on and add listening practice to your routine.
Hopefully my post that @marcusp linked helps, and hopefully it’s still accurate, but let me know if you have any other questions about using Renshuu and I’ll try to answer them. There is also a tutorial that you can access from the Renshuu help menu (Help>Getting Started) that should guide you through setting up a schedule.
Personally I really like it due to how quick it is to look up items in the dictionary and add them to a schedule (compared to Anki anyway) and also the JLPT*/Kanken lists to give my studying some direction. One note on the sentences though, I think a lot, if not most, of the sentences were written by users and some may have errors in them so be careful when using them.
*I realize the JLPT doesn’t use official lists anymore but still think the old lists can be useful as lists of common words to study from.
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