My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread

Yeah, so I slept on this and decided to try and branch out with my reading. The questions were really technical (at least for me)! Like, should it be 間 or 間に here, should it be dictionary form here or continuous. I don't want to harp on the details of any particular question because there were so many problems, but you can get the picture.

I actually do quite a bit of reading, but I don't think that it's the right kind of reading. For example, I read a lot of NHK Easy, but as other people have mentioned, they don't really use a lot of N3 grammar points. So it's still useful, because it's still reading (how could it not be useful?), but it's not exposing me to natural usage of the grammar points that are "new" to me (should it be ところを or ところで here?).

For a while I was using the graded readers, but there was some kind of jump in the series where I just didn't have the vocab to proceed.

Anyway, luckily my library has a lot of Japanese manga. I just reserved new issues of yotsuba and shirokuma.

At the very least, if I continue what I'm doing, I should see a nice bump in my grammar score next year (how could I not?). But again, it's always a bit disappointing to get a bad score on something, and stare at an exam and feel kinda clueless, which is what happened yesterday.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to posting my monthly stats on Sunday and writing out a plan for the next month.