My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread

Maybe not taking the N3 was a good thing for me then.  I had a bit of a slowdown from the holidays where I didn't add anything for almost the entire month of december.  But once I got back into the day to day of normal life, I've resumed old habits adding 10-14 kanji a day.  I was planning on finishing RTK by year end, but my december sabbatical pushed that goal back by a month.  I still have about 300 suspended leeches to wrap up after that, but then I'll finally be done adding kanji for a while.

I'm planning for 2016 to be a year of consuming Japanese media while pure study will take a backseat to that.  While not strictly Japanese media, I've already started listening to Japanese Pod 101 dialogs in the car to tune-up my listening skills.  I don't like the jpod101 lessons because there is just way too much english dialog and peter gallante is much too annoying to listen to behind the wheel of a car.  The dialogs are much better because they are entirely japanese and I have the transcripts in japanese and english.  I've also downloaded the vocabulary for every season so I can pre-study and use the audio dialogs as pure listening practice.  My interim goal is by midyear I can understand the beginner dialogs as effortlessly as possible.  

A bit later I'm also planning on watching some Anime and possibly some dramas that I'll pre-study the vocabulary in advance.  Depending how I'm feeling this summer, I may start studying some JLPT materials.  When I think about it, understanding native material has always been the test I'd most like to pass.  I'd say there's even odds I'll take the N3 this year depending mostly on how fun native material is and how I'm progressing.

Kanji:  491mature + 1239young/learn = 1730