A cascade of happiness
2018-Jan-24, Wednesday 14:14
I have multiple good things to report!
The first and biggest is that the results for the JLPT came out last night (10 a.m. Japan time, 7 p.m. local time) and I passed!
I wasn't expecting that at all, honestly. After I took the test, I really thought I did badly, and even though I came home and had some of the answers I gave confirmed as correct in the course of playing Twilight Princess--like 位置, meaning "location," so never let it be said that video games don't teach you anything--I was really worried about the listening section. Each problem played once and moved on with little time, so if I ever lost my concentration for a moment, I often wasn't entirely sure what the problem even was.
Well, apparently my listening is better than I thought. I scored 39/60 on the listening section, well above the 19/60 needed for a section pass. My highest was 49/60 on reading, which makes sense considering that since the last time I took the JLPT N3, I've played over a dozen video games in Japanese, I read a woman's daily blog in Japanese, I've been in Japanese tutoring for two-and-a-half years, and I'm halfway through 世界の中心で、愛を叫ぶ. I get a lot of reading practice.
Not sure I'm ready for N2 next year, but I'll at least consider it.
My ear is now healed! It turned out to be a common problem I have due to my ear canal being strangely shaped. But now everything is fixed, and though I had to wait for two hours and accidentally worried![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
schoolpsychnerd because I made a snap decision to go see the doctor, and though I'll probably get a bill for like $100 because America's health system is garbage, it's all fixed and I can hear clearly again.
I was worried that I would have to buy a WiiMotion Plus remote for my upcoming playthrough of Skyward Sword, since we only have regular WiiMotes from the initial release of the Wii and I doubt they work anymore anyway after a decade with unchanged batteries--and also, I've looked for them repeatedly and can't find them--but![[facebook.com profile]](https://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico)
aaron.hosek came through and let me borrow his. Now I just need to buy a Dolphin bar, which is a much more manageable expense for a single game. Whether I enjoy waving my arms around to swing a sword, or whether I end up shouting at the screen like schoolpsychnerd when she played the Harry Potter Wii game 
, remains to be seen.
Hopefully no one else spends the day shouting at the screen!
The first and biggest is that the results for the JLPT came out last night (10 a.m. Japan time, 7 p.m. local time) and I passed!
I wasn't expecting that at all, honestly. After I took the test, I really thought I did badly, and even though I came home and had some of the answers I gave confirmed as correct in the course of playing Twilight Princess--like 位置, meaning "location," so never let it be said that video games don't teach you anything--I was really worried about the listening section. Each problem played once and moved on with little time, so if I ever lost my concentration for a moment, I often wasn't entirely sure what the problem even was.Well, apparently my listening is better than I thought. I scored 39/60 on the listening section, well above the 19/60 needed for a section pass. My highest was 49/60 on reading, which makes sense considering that since the last time I took the JLPT N3, I've played over a dozen video games in Japanese, I read a woman's daily blog in Japanese, I've been in Japanese tutoring for two-and-a-half years, and I'm halfway through 世界の中心で、愛を叫ぶ. I get a lot of reading practice.
Not sure I'm ready for N2 next year, but I'll at least consider it.
My ear is now healed! It turned out to be a common problem I have due to my ear canal being strangely shaped. But now everything is fixed, and though I had to wait for two hours and accidentally worried
schoolpsychnerd because I made a snap decision to go see the doctor, and though I'll probably get a bill for like $100 because America's health system is garbage, it's all fixed and I can hear clearly again. I was worried that I would have to buy a WiiMotion Plus remote for my upcoming playthrough of Skyward Sword, since we only have regular WiiMotes from the initial release of the Wii and I doubt they work anymore anyway after a decade with unchanged batteries--and also, I've looked for them repeatedly and can't find them--but
schoolpsychnerd when she played the Harry Potter Wii game , remains to be seen.Hopefully no one else spends the day shouting at the screen!
