Race to Your Goal! December 2020 JLPT

[maggiekarp]

@FennelFox

And finally, a huge shout-out to @maggiekarp.
thank you!!

Happy to help where I can! Welcome back! How was your vacation?

[evelynn99]

D-d-d-d-d-d-double digit level up! Yay!!

[xomia]

@evelynn99

D-d-d-d-d-d-double digit level up! Yay!!

おめでとう！

[FennelFox]

Alright! I’ve added you to the leaderboard. You’ve got member status in the forum, so just update yourself whenever you level. There’s instructions about how to do that at the top, but if you have any questions, I’m happy to help!

[FennelFox]

@xomia, welcome! Would you like me to add you to the leaderboard? I haven’t taken the JLPTs before myself, so I can’t offer you an answer to your question, sorry. I think there are some JLPT practice tests, so you could see if the 4 is really easy for you and then decide which test to shoot for.

Does anyone else have any advice?

[FennelFox]

Hey there, and welcome! I’m afraid I don’t quite understand your post.
Would you like to join our “race”? It looks like you’ve got member status in the forums, so feel free to add yourself to the leaderboard if so. There’s instructions in the first post up top.

[FennelFox]

Thanks! It was full of family and very fun. I wish it had lasted longer!

[nephilim07]

Thanks for the help!

[JaneBronte]

Hi @FennelFox
I wish to join the race. Could you add me please?
My average level-up speed is 8 days and 16 hours.

Thank you!

[krysta84]

@xomia

Hey y’all! I’m getting back to studying Japanese after a long break. I’ve never taken the JLPT (which is such a shame because I probably could have passed N3 in high school!). It seems my vocab and grammar is somewhere around N4-N3 level. Should I make the N4 my goal first, or try to study up to N3? Would love to hear from folks who have taken the tests before.

It depends when you want to do the test and how much time you’re willing to invest in it.
I calculate my skills to be between N4 and N3 as well, currently. And I’m dedicating a lot of my time to study for the N3 which I’ll take in December this year. (with a lot I mean up to 4 hours a day)

My studies include:
Wanikani, for kanji obviously (I reduced it to around 10 lessons per day the missing kanji, I’ll try to learn before I do the test, or I wing it, if it doesn’t turn out to be that many)
Tobira, (one chapter per week starting tomorrow) for the grammar, reading practice and more vocabulary.
Anki decks from Tobira, to help study those vocabulary and kanji points
Iknow, for extra vocabulary. Currently the additional vocabulary to accompany Wanikani

for listening I watch sesame street on youtube, or the occasional anime. I don’t consider that to be much of learning, just a way to immerse myself in a relaxing manner.
I hope this way I can get myself to N3 level in time for the test. I want to be able to get a fairly good score on it, not just pass it. Mainly because I want to do the N2 next year, and I want to become a translator. Which was my original plan when I started these studies in 2007.

Anyway, hope this helps.

As for my progress on wanikani. I see a level up coming on Tuesday. I still have 64 lessons pending though. So level 13 will also be a slower one. I may crank up my lessons to 15 a day.
Still summer vacation obviously.

[xomia]

Yes, please add me! I’ll do a little more research to see where my goal should be. Level 60 seems a little high for me starting so late.

[xomia]

This was really helpful, thank you!

[FennelFox]

Welcome to the race, and welcome back to WK! I’ve got you added. It looks like you’ve got member status, so you can update yourself as you level.

Thanks for joining us!

[FennelFox]

Ok! I’ve got you added. I’ve got 60 as your goal just as a default, but let me know what you’d like to change it to when you decide.

[maggiekarp]

FINALLY

@jprspereira seriously though thank you for the encouraging words

Also, out of curiosity, anyone here planning on taking the JLPT this December?

[Aemaeth]

I might have the confidence to do it, seeing as I’ll be living there… but I always feel nervous about testing and issues with never being good enoooough. that and I hate spending money haha

[krysta84]

Just translated the first text in the Tobira chapter.
Not because they ask me to, but because, since I want to be a translator eventually, I figured I could really use the practice as early as possible and because I think it really forces me to dissect the sentences and find out what it exactly says.

So far, I seem to not be struggling as much with Japanese. I understood fine. It’s just the putting it into English that makes sense part that I seem to struggle with.
I’m not really sure if I should improve on that, since I eventually translate into Dutch since they won’t allow me to translate into English (I’m not native after all)

Which then makes me think, should I just translate into Dutch in the first place?
Which also makes it hard because then I’d have to translate from Japanese to English to Dutch as most sites, books everything, translates to English by default. So I’d have to change all the vocabulary sites that I use, to also include Dutch. The sheer work of that alone makes me want to take a nap. Of course Dutch is always easier for me.

Of course I kind of also need someone to check my work. Hmm.

Edit: I’ll just do both English and Dutch.

[jprspereira]

@maggiekarp

@jprspereira seriously though thank you for the encouraging words

Goood jobbbbbbbbb If you don’t let them pile up again, I won’t be tsun

also, don’t forget to post it hereeeee: The 0/0 Streak Challenge - #2376 by morpheme

[FennelFox]

This is VERY SIMILAR to 0/0

[2player]

Okay up to 10 now. 9d15h

I forgot how great it felt to get hit with 100+ new items after leveling up

Trying to give 1-2 days to focus down the vocab related to the previous level before hitting the rest