Hi everybody!
My university (I'm Italian) has a student exchange program with various extra-EU countries, and Japan is one of the destination. I'd like to go for some months during the academic year 2013-2014, but first I have to pass a test that will be held at the end of October/beginning of November. The exam's level is equivalent to JLPT4.
I'm still a beginner, in the past few months I've studied the kana and I've done RTK, now I'm SRSing the JLPT5 Vocab anki deck (just 250 cards in, I'm doing it and not core 2k cause I noticed that srsing sentences confounds me at this point, I need to memorize some basic vocabulary first) and reading Japanese the Manga Way. I plan to finish the anki deck and the textbook in a month or so (the next week I'll take my undergrad degree too, so I'm going a bit slow!), than to do the JLPT4 vocab deck with Tae Kim, or maybe to start core2k/6k and to read the first Japanese Graded Readers volumes, I don't know yet.
What do you guys think is the best method to try to pass a JLPT4-type test in three and a half months? After the test I'll have more than a year to study with the aim of generic fluency, so the objective now is just to pass the damn exam!
I know it's a difficult goal to achieve with so little time, and actually some of the japanese universities accept candidates with just a JLPT5 level and a TOEFL score of 80, but I'll try anyway just to have some pressure and to avoid to slack off
Edit: oh yeah, sorry for my english, I knew it well enough to study with it, but my active vocabulary and speaking/writing ability is pretty limited, so probably it sounds really stupid XD
My university (I'm Italian) has a student exchange program with various extra-EU countries, and Japan is one of the destination. I'd like to go for some months during the academic year 2013-2014, but first I have to pass a test that will be held at the end of October/beginning of November. The exam's level is equivalent to JLPT4.
I'm still a beginner, in the past few months I've studied the kana and I've done RTK, now I'm SRSing the JLPT5 Vocab anki deck (just 250 cards in, I'm doing it and not core 2k cause I noticed that srsing sentences confounds me at this point, I need to memorize some basic vocabulary first) and reading Japanese the Manga Way. I plan to finish the anki deck and the textbook in a month or so (the next week I'll take my undergrad degree too, so I'm going a bit slow!), than to do the JLPT4 vocab deck with Tae Kim, or maybe to start core2k/6k and to read the first Japanese Graded Readers volumes, I don't know yet.
What do you guys think is the best method to try to pass a JLPT4-type test in three and a half months? After the test I'll have more than a year to study with the aim of generic fluency, so the objective now is just to pass the damn exam!
I know it's a difficult goal to achieve with so little time, and actually some of the japanese universities accept candidates with just a JLPT5 level and a TOEFL score of 80, but I'll try anyway just to have some pressure and to avoid to slack off
Edit: oh yeah, sorry for my english, I knew it well enough to study with it, but my active vocabulary and speaking/writing ability is pretty limited, so probably it sounds really stupid XD
Edited: 2012-07-10, 11:26 am