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Thread: Getting back into study at 'N2' level Post: Getting back into study at 'N2' level Hi all, I've been away from this forum, and from Japanese study, for about three years since taking and passing level N2 of te JLPT by the skin of my teeth in December 2010. I'm keen to get back int... |
stevesayskanpai | Learning resources | 0 | 645 | 2014-09-24, 2:46 am | ||
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Thread: Maintaining N2 JLPT Post: Maintaining N2 JLPT Yes, essentially these days I study for the sake of study :) I lived in Japan in the past, and don't want to completely forget what I learnt. Who knows if one day I'll get a job back in Nippon, or eve... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 13 | 5,063 | 2012-08-11, 4:52 am | ||
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Thread: Maintaining N2 JLPT Post: Maintaining N2 JLPT No I had no interaction with Japanese language content at all. gaiaslastlaugh, I think mining sentences from the 漢字単語ドリル book might be a good first step. And maybe after that going on to the Kanzen ... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 13 | 5,063 | 2012-08-10, 6:30 pm | ||
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Thread: English translation of UNICOM ２級 漢字単語ドリル Post: English translation of UNICOM ２級 漢字単語ドリル Hi all, I'd really like to find a translation of this book to check my understanding of the sentences in it. Does anyone know of one available online? Many thanks. |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 0 | 642 | 2012-08-10, 6:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Maintaining N2 JLPT Post: Maintaining N2 JLPT I feel like I've lost a lot of my N2 ability. I didn't clear the N2 pass mark with room to spare - I slightly scraped it - and I have limited time to study Japanese now. I want to make the best use of... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 13 | 5,063 | 2012-08-10, 5:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Maintaining N2 JLPT Post: Maintaining N2 JLPT Its been about 18 months since I've studied Japanese - I passed the N2 JLPT in December 2010 - and I want to return to some kind of regular reviewing using Anki in order to try to maintain some famili... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 13 | 5,063 | 2012-08-10, 5:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning Italian / Anki Post: Learning Italian / Anki As I make clear in the subject, totally off topic! Still I remember this forum being really helpful when I was learning Japanese, so I thought I'd ask. I'm using Anki to drill Italian vocab, but I'm ... |
stevesayskanpai | Off topic | 1 | 1,209 | 2012-01-30, 3:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning Spanish Post: Learning Spanish Hey mate, Its taken me a while to reply but I wanted to say thanks for the post link - it says a lot of things I wanted to say but didnt, for example how there's a lot of dross material out there and... |
stevesayskanpai | Off topic | 2 | 687 | 2011-05-21, 5:21 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning Spanish Post: Learning Spanish This may seem an odd post title, especially if you are from the States, where many people learn Spanish at school. I learnt French at school, though I didn't pay much attention. My sole language effo... |
stevesayskanpai | Off topic | 2 | 687 | 2011-05-19, 5:32 pm | ||
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Thread: 2010年12月 JLPT Results Post: 2010年12月 JLPT Results UK here. Passed N2 with 96. Not sure where to go from here - obviously not ready for N1 in a year (as I can't study full time, or even every day) - on the other hand, not willing to pay the same amoun... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 112 | 39,074 | 2011-03-01, 5:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Nihongo So Matome N1 Kanji Help! Post: Nihongo So Matome N1 Kanji Help! Does anyone use this book? It is incredibly well packed with information, but the format is destroying my soul. Each week has 7 lessons, and each day's lesson has an insane amount of vocab. Day 1 has ... |
stevesayskanpai | Learning resources | 4 | 3,926 | 2011-01-06, 3:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Online Japanese Novels Post: Online Japanese Novels Hi everyone, Happy New Year! I recently bought Murakami Haruki's Wild Sheep Chase in paperback, but quickly realised that it will take me hours to read in this form. It would be a lot more straightf... |
stevesayskanpai | Learning resources | 33 | 17,188 | 2011-01-01, 8:03 am | ||
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Thread: N2 to N1 - Study Plan Post: N2 to N1 - Study Plan No rest for the wicked...after having finished N2, I'm taking some time off studying Japanese- to plan my study for N1! I was thinking of doing either KO2001 or Kanji in Context all the way through ... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 1 | 2,950 | 2010-12-07, 3:41 pm | ||
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Thread: N2 2010 Reaction Thread Post: N2 2010 Reaction Thread Hi all, After asking a significant number of grammar related questions on this site, I was highly surprised how few grammar questions there were on today's test! I think I did fairly well on the list... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 1 | 1,430 | 2010-12-05, 3:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanzen 2Kyu Grammar Questions Thread Post: Kanzen 2Kyu Grammar Questions Thread Hi all. Just wanted to say thanks for all your help over the past 2-3 months in patiently answering my many grammar related questions. Thanks especially to pm215 - you're answers have always been spo... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 100 | 28,429 | 2010-11-28, 7:24 am | ||
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Thread: July 2010 N2 Paper Arimasu Ka? Post: July 2010 N2 Paper Arimasu Ka? rich_f -> you are also a legend! perfectly formatted N2 test, unbelievable. Doing the 2007 past paper at the moment - listening and vocab were fine, but the grammar and reading point is seriously t... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 22 | 12,019 | 2010-11-08, 7:13 am | ||
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Thread: July 2010 N2 Paper Arimasu Ka? Post: July 2010 N2 Paper Arimasu Ka? Katsuo you legend! Excellent work - and much much appreciated. |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 22 | 12,019 | 2010-11-04, 12:40 pm | ||
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Thread: July 2010 N2 Paper Arimasu Ka? Post: July 2010 N2 Paper Arimasu Ka? Of course I can write in Japanese on my computer. I just didn't then. I don't understand the Chinese sites particularly well, if anyone has a link that'd be great. |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 22 | 12,019 | 2010-11-04, 10:39 am | ||
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Thread: July 2010 N2 Paper Arimasu Ka? Post: July 2010 N2 Paper Arimasu Ka? Does anyone have a pdf of / link to the July 2010 N2 paper? It'd be perfect practise for the December test. |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 22 | 12,019 | 2010-11-04, 7:25 am | ||
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Thread: だけ vs かぎり Post: だけ vs かぎり I'm finding it hard to get my head around the two grammar points だけ and かぎり. Can't both mean "to the limits" of something? Is there any difference in nuance of meaning that I've missed in those meanin... |
stevesayskanpai | The Japanese language | 1 | 1,162 | 2010-11-03, 8:09 am | ||
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Thread: N2 Study Past Exam Paper Questions Thread Post: N2 Study Past Exam Paper Questions Thread Hi! Me again. I thought I'd start a new thread for the overlap into past paper questions that I don't understand. Hopefully this will be useful for anyone who is preparing for the N2 test in 5 weeks. ... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 2 | 3,754 | 2010-11-01, 9:06 am | ||
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Thread: Kanzen 2Kyu Grammar Questions Thread Post: Kanzen 2Kyu Grammar Questions Thread Thanks Pm - very logical response. So, onto the final final test! I got 62% on this, which I was a bit disappointed with. However, since then, I got 64% on the 2008 2kyuu paper, which I was very pleas... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 100 | 28,429 | 2010-11-01, 8:48 am | ||
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Thread: Kanzen 2Kyu Grammar Questions Thread Post: Kanzen 2Kyu Grammar Questions Thread Test III (116-173), pp.103-105 I won't give myself a score on this one, as I did it about three times, and spent ages making notes. This was a really good test for sorting out the various もの and こと g... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 100 | 28,429 | 2010-10-31, 10:37 am | ||
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Thread: Kanzen 2Kyu Grammar Questions Thread Post: Kanzen 2Kyu Grammar Questions Thread Ok, I have no excuse, and am a giant idiot - I read off the wrong answers! *Shame* |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 100 | 28,429 | 2010-10-30, 10:10 am | ||
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Thread: Kanzen 2Kyu Grammar Questions Thread Post: Kanzen 2Kyu Grammar Questions Thread That's it- finished the book! 3 tests to go. Test 10 (155-173, pp.100-102). I got 77% on this one. Just a couple of questions 3/2 - 危険な遊びは＿＿＿に限る. I actually got this right, choosing c) せず, but why i... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 100 | 28,429 | 2010-10-30, 8:12 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT Giongo / Gitaigo Post: JLPT Giongo / Gitaigo I don't understand what you mean "didn't have them in your Anki vocab deck". I don't use a vocab deck, but add words from the UNICOM 2Kyu book as well as the SpeedAnki website, plus words I don't know... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 10 | 8,197 | 2010-10-29, 8:03 am | ||
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Thread: Heisig's RTK2 Kunyomi Mnemonic Chart Post: Heisig's RTK2 Kunyomi Mnemonic Chart Hi Nukemarine, I'm going to try using this method for remembering 擬音語 and 擬態語. Before I'd simply tried creating stories in my head based on the sound of the phrase. This is a more systematic method t... |
stevesayskanpai | Remembering the Kanji | 2 | 4,725 | 2010-10-29, 6:25 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT Giongo / Gitaigo Post: JLPT Giongo / Gitaigo Thanks Katsuo! I'd already found your spreadsheet actually after a bit of digging, but the one's you single out, and Nukemarine's method look really useful. I was making up stories based on the sound ... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 10 | 8,197 | 2010-10-29, 6:17 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2 Study Question - 5 Weeks To Go Post: JLPT 2 Study Question - 5 Weeks To Go Haha, absolutely. Panic is an essential element. Did a few practice questions today - got 60% on the vocab paper, but understand my mistakes now. Did one reading question and got 4/7 on that. It's c... |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 13 | 6,065 | 2010-10-28, 2:57 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT Giongo / Gitaigo Post: JLPT Giongo / Gitaigo Thanks |
stevesayskanpai | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 10 | 8,197 | 2010-10-28, 2:10 pm | ||
