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owlectomyI am now all the way through my prep books for kanji, vocab, grammar, and reading comprehension (that's all of them). Have no confidence at all in the kanji, but I think I can probably grope out a 70% or so.
Other supplies acquired:
Test voucher (got it in the mail today)
Six Hello Kitty pencils
Hello Kitty pencil sharpener
I'm pleased, because most of the time when I say "Okay, I am going to study some Japanese now!" I only last for two or three weeks before I find something more interesting, and I've been working through these test prep books since July. And also because I had a good excuse to get Hello Kitty school supplies, not that I need an excuse.
Pleased -- and very, VERY impatient. Though there's still plenty of work needing to get done, past exams to work through, mistakes to correct. And I need to do a bunch moreSSR crawling in bed with a good book.
Immersion works. I believe in immersion. But I also think it was a good thing to study some of the words I normally don't encounter to round out my knowledge. I suspect that if I take seriously the idea that proficiency tests are not things you should study for, I'm a little below level 1; I also suspect that I wouldn't get to level 1 without reading a lot of newspapers. That is not a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Other supplies acquired:
Test voucher (got it in the mail today)
Six Hello Kitty pencils
Hello Kitty pencil sharpener
I'm pleased, because most of the time when I say "Okay, I am going to study some Japanese now!" I only last for two or three weeks before I find something more interesting, and I've been working through these test prep books since July. And also because I had a good excuse to get Hello Kitty school supplies, not that I need an excuse.
Pleased -- and very, VERY impatient. Though there's still plenty of work needing to get done, past exams to work through, mistakes to correct. And I need to do a bunch more
Immersion works. I believe in immersion. But I also think it was a good thing to study some of the words I normally don't encounter to round out my knowledge. I suspect that if I take seriously the idea that proficiency tests are not things you should study for, I'm a little below level 1; I also suspect that I wouldn't get to level 1 without reading a lot of newspapers. That is not a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
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12/11/07 01:56 (UTC)A couple of summers ago Phredd & I took a short Finnish course in Finland. Most of the other students were international grad students (b/c tuition is free, even for them) whose courses were taught in English but needed Finnish to get around (& the language of instruction was English, so they were learning Finnish in a not-native-language course, which made me feel ashamed as an American w/not great language skills). One Japanese woman, when I asked her why she chose to study Finnish (I think she was a Nordic Studies major in Japan), said it was easier than Japanese! Which kind of bowled me over, heh.