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Thread: JLPT July 2013 Post: JLPT July 2013 Finally got the N1 though with 107/180 a lot closer than I expected and a little disappointed for how long I've been doing this. Only consolation is that this time I didn't study for the test except t... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 65 | 18,243 | 2013-08-31, 11:46 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT July 2013 Post: JLPT July 2013 Results for Japan test takers actually come out 8/27 according to the website and my page after I logged in, but that got the old heart rate going pretty good anyway. |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 65 | 18,243 | 2013-08-20, 11:00 pm | ||
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Thread: The KanKen Chronicles Post: The KanKen Chronicles I had no idea it overlapped that much. I guess its easier to use RTK3 then to get things in a more logical radical order and have the ANKI deck. Its really encouraging to hear that that level might b... |
greatfool | General discussion | 397 | 123,342 | 2013-07-26, 2:03 am | ||
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Thread: The KanKen Chronicles Post: The KanKen Chronicles I am a latecomer to this thread, but I skimmed it all and was immediately inspired to start studying/ playing Kanken DS3. My goal right now is to get through the joyo kanji, which I theoretically kno... |
greatfool | General discussion | 397 | 123,342 | 2013-07-25, 1:43 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT July 2013 Post: JLPT July 2013 erlog Wrote:Yeah, the response section of the listening is absolutely brutal, and I say this as someone who's studied Japanese for 6 years, has passed N1 multiple times, and has lived in Japan for 3 y... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 65 | 18,243 | 2013-07-11, 2:40 am | ||
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Thread: Has anybody here finished all core 2000 and 6000 decks ? Post: Has anybody here finished all core 2000 and 6000 d... loverkanji Wrote:How then did some people use the AJATT method like katz' and do it in only 18 to 24 months ? Because from what I get it's just impossible. It's definitely not impossible. But from wha... |
greatfool | General discussion | 33 | 7,978 | 2012-04-13, 7:37 pm | ||
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Thread: The Jump from N3 to N2 Post: The Jump from N3 to N2 My first novel reading method for what its worth - don't remember if I read it somewhere or made it up but it has yet to fail me. First you have to know the language basics (for Japanese I'd say Rtk ... |
greatfool | General discussion | 52 | 18,710 | 2012-02-23, 5:25 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT test , question and correction Post: 2010 JLPT test , question and correction Thank you this is extremely helpful. So far I'm shooting around 56% and 61% so possibly enough to pass on percentage but I'm guessing the question difficulty adjustment will cut against me since I pr... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 20 | 6,583 | 2010-12-08, 1:39 am | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT study thread Post: 2010 JLPT study thread Took my first N1. I think because of a near failing experience with the 2 last year I was pretty well prepared for how bad the reading always is and didn't panic but probably still missed a lot. I do ... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 433 | 109,567 | 2010-12-05, 8:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Examples of eloquent Japanese speakers Post: Examples of eloquent Japanese speakers Yeah Koizumi seems like a decent speaker, also the last really charismatic prime minister, but I think he is the exception. If you want eloquent speaking, the current group of Japanese politicians is... |
greatfool | General discussion | 11 | 3,254 | 2010-10-01, 2:44 pm | ||
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Thread: How to kick that ol' Katakana habit? Post: How to kick that ol' Katakana habit? yudantaiteki Wrote:bucko Wrote:As a kind of protest against the silliness of many katakanaised words I pronounce them just as I do in my native accent. This is a bad idea. Native speakers of Japanese... |
greatfool | The Japanese language | 30 | 8,013 | 2010-09-28, 3:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Getting your foot into the translation industry Post: Getting your foot into the translation industry Jarvik, just wondering, I know the money is not good in general translation, but could you give a range for how much a decently experienced legal/financial translator might be able to make? I'm assum... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 61 | 24,157 | 2010-09-24, 12:59 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread Post: 2010 JLPT N1 (一級) Gangstas Only Thread xeno_panda Wrote:Would general newspaper vocab lists like this be useful to study? I'm a little wary of reading articles right now because I know so few advanced-level words, and I don't want to lear... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 70 | 33,015 | 2010-09-03, 2:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese words normally written in katakana Post: Japanese words normally written in katakana I remember hearing somewhere that animal and plant names are italicized because they are a kind of taxonomic words. In English we write animal and plant names in italics AND Latin-style to show that t... |
greatfool | General discussion | 8 | 6,002 | 2010-09-03, 2:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ Post: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ Tzadeck Wrote:The underlying idea in Japan is that Japanese people speak Japanese, and that white people and similarly obvious gaikokujin cannot. It's because most people in Japan don't think of Japa... |
greatfool | General discussion | 61 | 11,155 | 2010-08-02, 5:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ Post: Embarrassing myself in ハワイ I've definitely been there. A couple of thoughts... A lot of Japanese who are good at English probably don't like being addressed in Japanese in Hawaii- they feel like after all that study they sho... |
greatfool | General discussion | 61 | 11,155 | 2010-08-02, 1:03 am | ||
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Thread: Which Japanese Bible translation is the best for study? Post: Which Japanese Bible translation is the best for s... I have the 新共同訳聖書 and I like it a lot. I'm not sure exactly which version, but I got it off amazon.jp I think and it has full furigana. I can say that the language is in no way excessively difficult, ... |
greatfool | General discussion | 110 | 28,121 | 2009-11-04, 2:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Registered for the JLPT2. Post: Registered for the JLPT2. Thanks for the links! I may have my browser set wrong but the Japanese one is nigh unreadable since its got the kana for every compound in tiny parenthases. I guess I was slightly misinformed about ... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 21 | 5,125 | 2009-08-30, 10:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Registered for the JLPT2. Post: Registered for the JLPT2. I was just thinking, does anyone have primary source information on the changes, either in Japanese or English? All I've heard has been like 7th hand internet news |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 21 | 5,125 | 2009-08-28, 3:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Registered for the JLPT2. Post: Registered for the JLPT2. I'm trying to decide between 1 or 2 right now (have till September 25th I think.) 2 would be fairly easy given that I keep my study up at a minimal level. Passing 1 would be very challenging at this... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 21 | 5,125 | 2009-08-28, 12:39 pm | ||
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Thread: smart.fm core 2000/6000 and JLPT coverage Post: smart.fm core 2000/6000 and JLPT coverage This seems to confirm my suspicion that the majority of JLPT1 specific words are currently not on any list anywhere. (not counting the pure vocab lists) |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 37 | 26,696 | 2009-08-11, 3:05 pm | ||
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Thread: KO2001 and JLPT level Post: KO2001 and JLPT level blackmacros Wrote:So I know the "technical" jump that occurs. But I'm more interested in what the jump is in reality. KO2001 is only ~3600 words, but as a number of people have noted its enough for JL... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 94 | 17,479 | 2009-08-06, 1:28 am | ||
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Thread: What do multiple commas mean? Post: What do multiple commas mean? Ok so seems like its dots for horizontal writing and the goma for vertical writing but I don't quite understand the usage, is there any English equivalent? Heres an example I found from Murakami's Ka... |
greatfool | The Japanese language | 28 | 8,990 | 2009-07-22, 12:54 pm | ||
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Thread: What do multiple commas mean? Post: What do multiple commas mean? Its late and I can't find an example right now, but Ive seen it in several books. There will be a string of hiragana with a comma after each letter for maybe 3-6 characters. My guess was the commas i... |
greatfool | The Japanese language | 28 | 8,990 | 2009-07-21, 2:06 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months? Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months? Interesting question, I like epic challenges, but I don't know whether it would be possible since for me I have to have massive exposure to internalize all the grammar rules, common words ect like peo... |
greatfool | General discussion | 395 | 64,352 | 2009-06-01, 11:21 am | ||
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Thread: KO2001 and JLPT level Post: KO2001 and JLPT level Kanzen master sounds good then. Would you recommend studying it over どんな時どう使う? I'm aiming for fluency in the shortest time possible, and I'd rather get there sooner than worry about the JLPT. |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 94 | 17,479 | 2009-05-13, 4:02 pm | ||
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Thread: KO2001 and JLPT level Post: KO2001 and JLPT level In case anyone is interested, I haven't done Japanese in 3 years until 3 months ago, when I did RTK, and am at KO2001 around sentence 500. Also reading some Haruki Murakami. Just took JLPT 2 placement... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 94 | 17,479 | 2009-05-13, 11:47 am | ||
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Thread: KO2001 and JLPT level Post: KO2001 and JLPT level Tobberoth thats a good point I hadn't really though of. They can't test 6000 words, there are 6000 words they can choose from. If I knew 3600/6000 that would be 60%, but since the ones I know would l... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 94 | 17,479 | 2009-05-12, 10:30 pm | ||
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Thread: KO2001 and JLPT level Post: KO2001 and JLPT level Sorry should have specified, I'm not a beginner (been kind halfway seriously studying for maybe 4 years, 1 was in Japan) but just seem to have trouble getting over the hurdle of 6000 vocabulary words,... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 94 | 17,479 | 2009-05-12, 12:11 pm | ||
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Thread: KO2001 and JLPT level Post: KO2001 and JLPT level Listening will not be a problem, its by far the easiest portion of the test. I have plenty of experience, and I've listened to JLPT1 listening examples and understood everything but some of the advanc... |
greatfool | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 94 | 17,479 | 2009-05-12, 11:46 am | ||
