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Hello and welcome! Your goals are very admirable and exciting! Best of luck with all your aspirations. If a goal isn’t challenging or idealistic to some degree, it probably isn’t worth pursuing!
Hello and welcome!
Hello and welcome! Best of luck to you!
Hello and welcome! Best of luck with all that you do!
Hello and welcome! Best of luck!
Hello and welcome! This seems like a very exciting time for your family! Best of luck!
That’s awesome, Gigatron!
I plan to finish season 3 today, and hopefully do a big review as well. I am also going to start Heisig’s RTK 1 once it arrives. From the research I’ve done on it and users’ testimonials, it seems like it is right for me. Plus, it works out well since it will probably take me around 2 months to get through it, and that’s how long I have before school starts, so I can just learn the readings there while already knowing at least one keyword meaning per Joyo kanji. I hope it works out.
Hello and welcome! It’s fantastic that you have already experienced life in Japan. Best of luck with your studies and aspirations!
Welcome! That’s certainly a lone journey with the language, but I’m glad you’re determined to finish it! Best of luck!
I’m from a town about 12 miles west of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (born and raised here), but I am moving to Palo Alto, California, for college in September. I think Cali is probably a better environment to study Japanese in than central Oklahoma heh.
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Very interesting, thanks for sharing guys!
Aside from the JLPT there’s two other tests. The BJPT (Business Japanese Proficency Test), and the Kanji Kentei (漢字検定). According to Wikipedia, here’s the requirements for passing Level 1 (the highest) on the Kanji kentei:
Level 1
Tests the ability to read and write approximately 6000 kanji, with their on readings and kun readings Requires the ability to use the kanji in sentences and to choose the most appropriate kanji for a given context Tests special or unusual kanji readings Tests ateji Tests knowledge of synonyms and antonyms Tests ability to differentiate between homonyms Tests special compound words Tests complex radicals Tests kanji unique to the Japanese language Tests classical Japanese proverbs and idiomatic expressions Tests place and country names Tests the ability to recognize the relationship between modern and ancient or old character forms
Anyone up for it eventually?
Assuming I stick with my life plan (or, at least, the parts involving Japanese/Japan), I would love to take this test in several years to check my abilities/knowledge. I guess I don’t really mind standardized tests (probably the result of years of taking several ACT/SAT/AP tests), so I’m up for the challenge [far down the road].
I suppose this is the right thread for this question, but I was wondering if you guys have a particular method of note taking/reviewing/etc.
For example, when using TF, I write down the grammar points and some examples in a physical notebook, and I really prefer using physical flashcards to learn vocab/kana rather than Anki (though I use that, too). I use my “language log” on Evernote more for personal progress and reflection than actual Japanese language information (though a bit of that is tossed in for good measure). I also write down all kanji/readings/vocab in a composition book for reference, and I use that primarily for reviewing before using Anki.
I was just wondering what styles people use, and what they like about them.
Hello and welcome! Best of luck with your studies and job search! It’s difficult out there.
