I wish I could help on the Arashi tickets! I've been thinking I really want to go and try see them this year too! Just planning the trip (flights e.t.c.) is just boggling...and I'm trying to not think about the money! because I've been wanting to see them for three years! If I keep thinking about it then I will never see them.)
Nightie kriecht auch mal wieder aus ihrem Lethargie-Loch raus und wagt sich mal wieder ans Kommentieren...;>_> *schäm*
Heyho, viel Glück beim Nikyû, äh, N2!:) Gibt es da jetzt inzwischen auch Bücher dafür? Nicht, dass ich dieses Jahr den 1kyû anpacken würde, ich muss mich erst wieder in das 2kyû-Zeugs reinarbeiten, das ich inzwischen schon völlig vergessen habe. Aber nächstes Jahr vielleicht...? Auf jeden Fall denke ich, dass du das auf jeden Fall schaffst, vor allem wenn du so weiterübst wie jetzt. Und wegen der Zeitfrage, ich glaube da kann man auch nichts anderes machen als regelmäßige Übungen mit einem Zeitlimit zu machen, auch wenn es vor allem anfangs alles anderes als leicht fällt?^^;
Und yay für das Survival-Paket aus Deutschland!:D
*cough* Ich sollte meinen Mixi-Account auch irgendwann mal wieder ausgraben und auch endlich mal benutzen. *cough cough* Was ist denn dein Benutzername dort? Chochajin, wie hier auch?
Dankö! (*_*) Ja, gibt es und ich hab mir 2 davon gekauft und heute auch gleich mal einen N2-Mock-Test gemacht mit 79% bestanden. Nicht sonderlich zufriedenstellend. Ich will über 90% bei den Übungstests kommen, sonst fühl ich mich nicht sicher genug ;o; Und witzigerweise hatte ich am Ende noch locker 15 Min. um nochmal alles durchzulesen!! O__O; Man hat ja jetzt beim N2 105 Min. für Kanji, Vocab, Grammar und Reading ZUSAMMEN! Ich war mit den ersten drei superschnell durch und hatte dann überraschend viel Zeit fürs Lesen. Hoffe, das bleibt so :)
Good luck with the JLPT! I took it a couple of years ago (although I took the old level 1), fun times.
I think the important thing with reading is to do a lot of practice (the more you read, the quicker you get and the more confident you feel), and not to get stuck on trying to remember the reading for a word or what it means exactly - if you don't understand, move on, and maybe the meaning will become clear to you later. And when you're doing practice questions, you can always just underline bits which you didn't get, and then make sure that you study them later so you'd know for next time.
If you are going to do level 1 next year, I recommend trying to read as much Japanese as you can in the meantime - I'm pretty sure that the reason that I passed with minimal studying was because of how much reading I had done beforehand.
Hanamizuki was nice (for that kind of film), I hope you can see it!
That's true. You don't have to understand everything or try to understand everything. Even if you don't know vocabulary in the question/text you can deduce what the right answer is by the grammar used in both. I never bother to look up a word as long as I understand the general meaning. I only look them up when they show up a lot :)
Wow, you already passed Level1? That's awesome!! Why are you working as ALT then? You could get much "better" jobs :D
Thanks for your suggestions (sorry for the late reply). I did a N2 mock test today and had surprisingly a lot of time for the reading. Maybe it's because you have 105 min. for grammar/vocab/kanji/reading TOGETHER and if you're fast with all the other parts, then you have enough time for the reading?! I think they changed that. I think grammar and reading used to be one section and kanji/vocab another, but now it's all one :)
I intend to go to watch it at the end of this month :D
I could, but I quite like being an ALT for the moment, and I knew when I came back to Japan that I would only be staying in Fukuoka for a year or so, so I couldn't really see much point getting a better job, because that would kind of mean being in the same place for a long time.
It seems like in the future I'm going to end up moving around every 4 years or so, and I want to have children and be able to have time to look after them full time if possible when they're little, and then teach them English as well, so I don't think that going for a career type job would have been a good idea for me!
It's good that you can do everything together now! How did you do on the mock test? I hope you kick some JLPT ass!!!
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How do you study kanji? :)
I do have my lazy times, too ^^;
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Heyho, viel Glück beim Nikyû, äh, N2!:) Gibt es da jetzt inzwischen auch Bücher dafür? Nicht, dass ich dieses Jahr den 1kyû anpacken würde, ich muss mich erst wieder in das 2kyû-Zeugs reinarbeiten, das ich inzwischen schon völlig vergessen habe. Aber nächstes Jahr vielleicht...?
Auf jeden Fall denke ich, dass du das auf jeden Fall schaffst, vor allem wenn du so weiterübst wie jetzt. Und wegen der Zeitfrage, ich glaube da kann man auch nichts anderes machen als regelmäßige Übungen mit einem Zeitlimit zu machen, auch wenn es vor allem anfangs alles anderes als leicht fällt?^^;
Und yay für das Survival-Paket aus Deutschland!:D
*cough* Ich sollte meinen Mixi-Account auch irgendwann mal wieder ausgraben und auch endlich mal benutzen. *cough cough* Was ist denn dein Benutzername dort? Chochajin, wie hier auch?
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Dankö! (*_*)
Ja, gibt es und ich hab mir 2 davon gekauft und heute auch gleich mal einen N2-Mock-Test gemacht mit 79% bestanden. Nicht sonderlich zufriedenstellend. Ich will über 90% bei den Übungstests kommen, sonst fühl ich mich nicht sicher genug ;o;
Und witzigerweise hatte ich am Ende noch locker 15 Min. um nochmal alles durchzulesen!! O__O;
Man hat ja jetzt beim N2 105 Min. für Kanji, Vocab, Grammar und Reading ZUSAMMEN! Ich war mit den ersten drei superschnell durch und hatte dann überraschend viel Zeit fürs Lesen. Hoffe, das bleibt so :)
Ja, wie fast überall "chochajin" ;P
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I think the important thing with reading is to do a lot of practice (the more you read, the quicker you get and the more confident you feel), and not to get stuck on trying to remember the reading for a word or what it means exactly - if you don't understand, move on, and maybe the meaning will become clear to you later. And when you're doing practice questions, you can always just underline bits which you didn't get, and then make sure that you study them later so you'd know for next time.
If you are going to do level 1 next year, I recommend trying to read as much Japanese as you can in the meantime - I'm pretty sure that the reason that I passed with minimal studying was because of how much reading I had done beforehand.
Hanamizuki was nice (for that kind of film), I hope you can see it!
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Why are you working as ALT then? You could get much "better" jobs :D
Thanks for your suggestions (sorry for the late reply).
I did a N2 mock test today and had surprisingly a lot of time for the reading. Maybe it's because you have 105 min. for grammar/vocab/kanji/reading TOGETHER and if you're fast with all the other parts, then you have enough time for the reading?! I think they changed that. I think grammar and reading used to be one section and kanji/vocab another, but now it's all one :)
I intend to go to watch it at the end of this month :D
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It seems like in the future I'm going to end up moving around every 4 years or so, and I want to have children and be able to have time to look after them full time if possible when they're little, and then teach them English as well, so I don't think that going for a career type job would have been a good idea for me!
It's good that you can do everything together now! How did you do on the mock test? I hope you kick some JLPT ass!!!
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