The week was exhausting… Because I tried my hardest to use my target language and it takes a lot of effort. But the week has been full of positive encounters and it went ok!
You all have had a good langlearning week, I hope?
The week was exhausting… Because I tried my hardest to use my target language and it takes a lot of effort. But the week has been full of positive encounters and it went ok!
You all have had a good langlearning week, I hope?
Big win yesterday: I have now gone through every card in my N3 vocab deck (about 3500 cards). Exciting. Feels a bit intimidating stepping into stuff labeled specifically as N2 content, but my retention rate as been great. I’m ready. It’s the clearest sign yet that I’m more advanced with Japanese than I ever have been. Wrapping up the latest chapter of Tobira either today or tomorrow, too. Four more chapters to go.
Exciting!
Do you have particular study plans in mind post-Tobira? Diving more into JLPT-prep materials maybe?
I’ve usually seen the pipeline as kind of Genki > Tobira > now you’re intermediate, do Anki and consume content. But I don’t know, it’s still a long way away for me.
Yep, exactly, JLPT-prep. I’m going to grab Shin Kanzen Master, though I ultimately don’t know if it’ll be the right fit or not. My guess is once a student finishes Tobira (or Quartet now, I suppose), they pick a goal. N2 is the most common goal, I would imagine, so the student then figures out what part of the exam they need to focus on. For me, I know I’ll be okay on vocab and kanji, I just need reading speed and I especially need listening comprehension work. Beyond that, it’ll just be drills for the test format.
I think if one’s goal is just consuming native content, working in a job that needs Japanese, or just chatting with others, post-Tobira/Quartet is indeed when one starts a more self-tailored learning approach. I haven’t even started the “easy” native stuff like よつばと！or からかい上手の高木さん but it sounds like I’d be in a good position to do so maybe even right now if I wanted.