Into the ‘painful’ levels while living in Japan~

Did all lessons for level 11 vocab!

On p.65 of Shinkanzen Master N4 grammar

On p.4 of the same series but vocab book

Edited my last reply because I’ve always assumed native speakers of English to be someone from a major western country. I was wrong, apologies for my ignorance.

About to beat my longest streak:

Things I can understand with level 12 knowledge:

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:scream: I actually had to look up 上水. I don’t think I had that come up before. I do know 下水 pretty well so I should have been able to infer the meaning…

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tbh I wasn’t thinking of the actual meaning much–just that I just knew up and water. I was more proud of knowing everything before that lol

Going on vacation mode. I’m going out of the country soon and burning out trying to get all vocab before level 13. Here’s where I’m at. Broke my longest streak today :slight_smile:

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Also finished NPO Tadoku’s level 2 volume 2 stories! Was tempted to buy vol 3 (I’ve got the physical copies of vol 1 and 2) but I’ve already got other graded readers on my kindle.

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I’m back and actually couldn’t stay away from doing lessons while traveling lol. I’ve done all the lessons for lvl 12 kanji and am working through the vocab.

I’ve only got under 50 vocab to unlock but–

Traveling has given me some time to think and I plan on slowing down using WK. Trust, it’s been immensely helpful. I’ll either be at work or somewhere else in public and I’ll pick up on a word I just learned through it.

For example, a student asked me during English class how to write 木星に住みたい in English and I never thought I’d hear planet vocab in my day to day (I’m nowhere near the science classes at all). There’s other situations where I’d hear or read more ‘practical’ words.

During my travels, I saw vocab I recognized:

kana is: せんのそとでおまちください

I don’t think WK covers 国内 but I can break it down based off the characters. kana is: こくないしゅっぱつ

What does slow doing on WK mean for me? I’ll probably be taking a month for each level. I enjoy actually getting the kanji right during reviews. I like doing recent lessons every now and then. I enjoy hearing and seeing vocab out in the wild and making sense of it.

Just as important, I start online language school next month. I’m leaning towards focusing on clearing reviews and then leveling up kanji. For vocab, I’ll only pick lessons of words I already know from outside reading or can guess based off what I know already.

Let’s keep it going y’all~

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also was watching Offline Love on Netflix and recognized 出会う (to meet unexpectedly)

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Took a little bit longer than I wanted but I’ll take it

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