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日本語能力試験 once again
2018-Dec-02, Sunday 22:13
That rhymes, when it's transliterated.
Today was the JLPT again. I took N3 last year and I passed, but I'm much less confident that'll happen this year. I went one step up, to the N2, and half the time I had no idea what was going on. The listening was the worst part, of course, but I didn't finish the grammar and vocab section within time and had to just guess on a few questions with one minute left and no time to read the page-long essay the questions were about.
It's hard right now for me to take a particular message away from my performance, since I felt overwhelmed. I scored in the 90% percentile on the N3 and when I went into the N2 I felt like I didn't speak Japanese at all, and I didn't really have a particular area I should focus on other than "everywhere." I guess I just need to study more and step things up. At least I'm not alone--I overheard two people talking as I left about how confused they were most of the time.
Also, the man sitting next to me was coughing every twenty seconds or so for the entire 105 minute run time of the vocab and grammar section. I was really looking forward to the listening section, but fortunately they moved him to a corner away from everyone else.
Tonight is also the first night of Chanukkah, so I lit the candles. There's a picture here if you like.
This upcoming week might be the busiest week of the year for me. I have events every night through Saturday, including hosting a Chanukkah party on Friday night. I'm probably going to try making a test batch of latkes on Wednesday night to see if I can get the hang of it, but the sufganiyot will have to wait until Friday. Hopefully I can figure it out!
Today was the JLPT again. I took N3 last year and I passed, but I'm much less confident that'll happen this year. I went one step up, to the N2, and half the time I had no idea what was going on. The listening was the worst part, of course, but I didn't finish the grammar and vocab section within time and had to just guess on a few questions with one minute left and no time to read the page-long essay the questions were about.
It's hard right now for me to take a particular message away from my performance, since I felt overwhelmed. I scored in the 90% percentile on the N3 and when I went into the N2 I felt like I didn't speak Japanese at all, and I didn't really have a particular area I should focus on other than "everywhere." I guess I just need to study more and step things up. At least I'm not alone--I overheard two people talking as I left about how confused they were most of the time. Also, the man sitting next to me was coughing every twenty seconds or so for the entire 105 minute run time of the vocab and grammar section. I was really looking forward to the listening section, but fortunately they moved him to a corner away from everyone else.
Tonight is also the first night of Chanukkah, so I lit the candles. There's a picture here if you like.
This upcoming week might be the busiest week of the year for me. I have events every night through Saturday, including hosting a Chanukkah party on Friday night. I'm probably going to try making a test batch of latkes on Wednesday night to see if I can get the hang of it, but the sufganiyot will have to wait until Friday. Hopefully I can figure it out!
