My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread

Way to go ariariari! It's always good to see some updates here. I've been on a semi hiatus from Japanese for a few days but not without some way to try and get back into it

First off, I finally received the "Let's Read Japanese" book set that I ordered via Amazon. Though I plan to save that for an epic June tadoku round (full month after all). Then while reading through my Feedly stuff, I read an article on JALUP challenging those willing to participate to  complete 10 manga volumes in one month (May 1-31).I don't officially want to participate (I'm not at all confident I can achieve that goal...), this got me thinking about how I can possibly get my reading comp up overall.

Of course the first thing to do is learn more vocab so I've been blasting through my Core 6k reps and trying to get rid of my backlogs and continuing my 30 new words/day pace. It's difficult since my reviews are 100+ at this point but I feel like I'm actually learning

Then there is reading speed. I read quite slow even in English so this will be a challenge. But I did find some great tips as to how I may be able to achieve this. One of the tips is from the article from JLPT BOOT CAMP

JLPT BOOT CAMP Wrote:Take some kind of reading material that you are working with, graded readers are an excellent resource but anything your level will do, time yourself reading 2 pages of it. Try to read as fast as possible and time yourself doing it. The key here is to read at a pace where you are still comprehending everything not just blindly reading along, but actually understanding the whole story.

This is something I can easily implement into my manga reading. I actually feel like I am reading pages faster nowadays but I can't be too sure since I never timed myself. I usually just count the number of pages I read at a given session.

So now my goal is to continue reading while increasing my vocab and to monitor my speed per 2 pages. Only time will tell if there is improvement.