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Hello! My name is Lara. I’m an exchange student from Indonesia staying in USA.
Japan has been offering the Monbukagakusho scholarship for my country. It’s a full scholarship available for Asian countries, covering your academic tuition and monthly stipend in Japan. To get the scholarship, one of the tests are about Japanese language, which have been said to be on the same level with JLPT N3 (Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Level N3) which is REALLY difficult for a baby learner like me.
I want to get the Monbukagakusho scholarship because it’s like now-or-never to me – my family would never be able to afford going to Japan, let alone support my college tuition in Japan. Going to Japan (and other places in the world, actually) has always been my dream. I don’t know what will happen when I got home, but I’m worried about whether my family will be able to pay my college or not. I have to prepare for the worst, so I decided to buy this “textbook” as a kind of investment for my future life. LOL, what a topic to talk about…
Anyways, I’m going to work hard. Because that’s life for me.
Nice to meet you all!
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Welcome! So… you’re on an exchange from Indonesia to America, and now you want to do an exchange from America to Japan? =)
I just did N3 myself at the end of last year, though it’s going to be at least another month until I get my results. The section I’m most concerned about is listening – make sure you practice your listening. Admittedly, TextFugu was not my main source of study…
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Joel, the results are out already for 他の国.
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Joel, the results are out already for 他の国.
Rub it in, do. That said, I’m pretty sure only Japan gets theirs in February, and it’s just barely February right now. Sooo… [citation needed].
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Joel, the results are out already for 他の国.Rub it in, do. That said, I’m pretty sure only Japan gets theirs in February, and it’s just barely February right now. Sooo… [citation needed].
The “certificate” they might send won’t arrive anytime soon. I’m not from Japan, and I could access my results on the 31st of December, actually.
https://www.jlpt-overseas.jp/onlineresults/preinput.do
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Ooo, intriguing.
Just discovered while searching for my registration number that they’d told me about the online results lookup when I first applied. Hah. Here goes, then…
Edit: Woo! Passed! And I actually got the highest score in the listening section. Not at all sure how that happened. =P
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Joel.
Congratulations! I passed with the listening section being my worst :p
@Joel: Great work! O-meh-deh-tow go-zye-mass and all that ;)
Please share your secrets for building listening skills, I really want to know how you managed it! I’m sure I’ve said this before but I could probably pass N3 fine if it weren’t for that darned listening section ¬_¬
@Larasati: Good luck with it :D I will say though, even though somebody might have compared that exam to JLPT N3, I don’t think being able to pass the latter exam necessarily means you’ll be able to pass the former. JLPT only has sections on reading and listening, whereas I’m assuming – since the scholarship people want to know if you’d be prepared to function normally in a proper university – the other exam will test your speaking and writing skills too. I’m not 100% sure on that but it would be a pretty crappy exam if they *didn’t* test you on all areas. Just something to look out for.
Anyway, keep us posted on your progress :)
@No one in particular: I wonder how long it’s going to be before they drop the ‘N’ from the start of the JLPT numbers. The system was changed in 2010 – coincidentally around the time I started learning Japanese – so N3 isn’t really New anymore.
Please share your secrets for building listening skills, I really want to know how you managed it! I’m sure I’ve said this before but I could probably pass N3 fine if it weren’t for that darned listening section ¬_¬
If you can tell me how I managed it, I’ll be happy to tell you back. =)
It’s pretty much mostly just carefully listening for words that follow specific keywords. Like 実は or じゃあ or だから et cetera.
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AnonymousWow I wish I could go to college in Japan. You are lucky to get a chance!
@Joel: I just tried the sample N3 questions again (on the JLPT website) and got 3/5 listening questions correct this time! :D For one of them that I got wrong, after learning the answer and a further play through, it all made sense; for the other, I was still a little unsure, however. Also, I may have replayed the audio more times than you’d get in the actual exam… but it’s progress! It’s been a while since I tried them, and that time I understood very little of what the people were saying, so it wasn’t down to simply remembering the right answer :P Too bad in life you don’t get multiple choice though…
Have you actually attempted the N3 exam? I was the same as you – thought I could pass just fine if it weren’t for listening. Thought I’d just give it a stab anyway, though, and it seems I passed. =)
Yeah, multiple choice in real life would be handy. Or a list of responses to give. =P But remember in real life, you’ve got all manner of handy context. Also, they’re not deliberately trying to test your ability and/or trip you up.
@Joel Yea– whoops, no, I will have to come back to Indonesia first to apply, which is fine since I have to graduate from Indonesia first :) So I’m now in USA as an exchange student from Indonesia, and I’ll apply for the scholarship to Japan in Indonesia :)
Congratulations on passing the N3! I can’t get over your cat picture btw.
@Michael True that, actually Japanese is just one of a bunch of other things to test on. I need to prepare for math, physics, bio, chem, and all that before even worrying about the Japanese. But that said, I think studying Japanese seriously is also worth a shot. In my school I have been studying Japanese too, and I always get perfect scores without studying (because the Japanese taught at my school is very basic, it’s nowhere near N1 LOL) so now I wanna take it to another level by self-teaching… Hahaha.
Good luck on your progress!
@Tsetycoon13 Thank you! Hahaha, I’m just trying to apply, it’s not certain at all whether I’ll be able to go or not :)
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