Comments on: JLPT exam post-mortem. http://kallewoof.com/2009/07/05/jlpt-exam-post-mortem/ yours truly Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:45:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Susan http://kallewoof.com/2009/07/05/jlpt-exam-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-3348 Susan Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:54:59 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/?p=340#comment-3348 may I know the chinese website where the July 5 2009 level 1 answers are found? thank you very much. may I know the chinese website where the July 5 2009 level 1 answers are found? thank you very much.

]]> By: andy http://kallewoof.com/2009/07/05/jlpt-exam-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-3312 andy Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:56:11 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/?p=340#comment-3312 may i know the Chinese website where the July 5, 2009 level 2 answers are found? thanks so much may i know the Chinese website where the July 5, 2009 level 2
answers are found? thanks so much

]]> By: gabychka http://kallewoof.com/2009/07/05/jlpt-exam-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-3307 gabychka Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:34:50 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/?p=340#comment-3307 You definitely aren't immune! TRUST ME! Well, if you return to and live in Sweden, it won't be a big deal. I can tell you, however, that living in the US being out of touch with any French other that listening to French Canadian satellite news, my French has taken a real beating written and spoken. My vocabulary is being overwritten! CAREFUL!! BEWARE!!! You definitely aren’t immune! TRUST ME! Well, if you return to and live in Sweden, it won’t be a big deal. I can tell you, however, that living in the US being out of touch with any French other that listening to French Canadian satellite news, my French has taken a real beating written and spoken. My vocabulary is being overwritten! CAREFUL!! BEWARE!!!

]]> By: Kalle http://kallewoof.com/2009/07/05/jlpt-exam-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-3305 Kalle Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:12:27 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/?p=340#comment-3305 Oh, and as for Spanish and Russian -- geez, man, isn't that going to completely melt your brain? I knew (sort of) some German and some Spanish and some Russian at some point, but as soon as I started seriously learning Japanese, I simply couldn't produce a single word in any of those "vague" languages anymore. In fact I'm surprised I even know how to speak English these days. Swedish I guess I'm "immune" to forgetting, though I have trouble with words on occasion. I often find myself knowing a word in English and Japanese but not in Swedish, or any combination of 2-out-of-3. Oh, and as for Spanish and Russian — geez, man, isn’t that going to completely melt your brain? I knew (sort of) some German and some Spanish and some Russian at some point, but as soon as I started seriously learning Japanese, I simply couldn’t produce a single word in any of those “vague” languages anymore. In fact I’m surprised I even know how to speak English these days. Swedish I guess I’m “immune” to forgetting, though I have trouble with words on occasion. I often find myself knowing a word in English and Japanese but not in Swedish, or any combination of 2-out-of-3.

]]> By: Kalle http://kallewoof.com/2009/07/05/jlpt-exam-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-3304 Kalle Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:06:05 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/?p=340#comment-3304 Hey Mark! Happy to see you're still reading, despite my extended absence(s) (that goes for all of you!)! One of the Taiwanese in my class showed me the answer sheets on one some Chinese site. I tried to remember how I answered everything. I'm 100% sure I screwed the kanji/vocab part up completely (in the 55% range...!), and I thought the listening was far more difficult than usual, but I believe I got something in the 85% range for grammar, which means that if -- and only if -- I actually did do okay on the listening part, and if -- and only if -- I did okay on the reading comprehension part, then I might actually push myself over the 70% line. I guess in retrospect I'm happy it was the vocab part and not the reading comprehension/grammar part that I screwed up so gravely, considering the latter weighs twice as much in the scoring. But presuming I get listening at 70%, I would need 74% on dokkai ("reading comprehension and grammar" is just way longer than "dokkai") in order to actually get 70%. Highly doubtful that I managed a feat like that, considering my history so far with mock exams and the like. Hey Mark! Happy to see you’re still reading, despite my extended absence(s) (that goes for all of you!)! One of the Taiwanese in my class showed me the answer sheets on one some Chinese site. I tried to remember how I answered everything. I’m 100% sure I screwed the kanji/vocab part up completely (in the 55% range…!), and I thought the listening was far more difficult than usual, but I believe I got something in the 85% range for grammar, which means that if — and only if — I actually did do okay on the listening part, and if — and only if — I did okay on the reading comprehension part, then I might actually push myself over the 70% line. I guess in retrospect I’m happy it was the vocab part and not the reading comprehension/grammar part that I screwed up so gravely, considering the latter weighs twice as much in the scoring.

But presuming I get listening at 70%, I would need 74% on dokkai (“reading comprehension and grammar” is just way longer than “dokkai”) in order to actually get 70%. Highly doubtful that I managed a feat like that, considering my history so far with mock exams and the like.

]]> By: Mark http://kallewoof.com/2009/07/05/jlpt-exam-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-3303 Mark Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:22:02 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/?p=340#comment-3303 I hope it went better than you thought it did Kalle! I have to say I'm also amazed with your progress! Even if you don't pass this time it sounds like it'll be a definite pass for you in December before the exams change next year. I can't say I've really done much Japanese study since JLPT2 in December, and in fact now I've moved on to study Spanish and Russian for interest (and planning travel). I still watch a lot of J-dorama in the evenings and make notes of unknown words with example sentences, but that's all I really do now. I guess I'm thinking that from here on out it'll just be a natural acquisition; after all I'm planning to be here for a loooooong time. Maybe I'll get round to taking JLPT1 in 2015. ;) Look forward to hearing how you got on in September! I hope it went better than you thought it did Kalle! I have to say I’m also amazed with your progress!
Even if you don’t pass this time it sounds like it’ll be a definite pass for you in December before the exams change next year.

I can’t say I’ve really done much Japanese study since JLPT2 in December, and in fact now I’ve moved on to study Spanish and Russian for interest (and planning travel). I still watch a lot of J-dorama in the evenings and make notes of unknown words with example sentences, but that’s all I really do now. I guess I’m thinking that from here on out it’ll just be a natural acquisition; after all I’m planning to be here for a loooooong time. Maybe I’ll get round to taking JLPT1 in 2015. ;)

Look forward to hearing how you got on in September!

]]> By: Kalle http://kallewoof.com/2009/07/05/jlpt-exam-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-3302 Kalle Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:02:53 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/?p=340#comment-3302 Annie: thank you for keeping me in your thoughts! :D I knew there was something yowling at me in the back of my head when I was takg the exam. Must have been Bilbo in the background. ;P Gaby: exactly. I could, in theory, ask the Chinese speaking folk in my class to find a site which has the answers (the answers appear on Chinese sites within days of the exam date, without the blessing of the Japanese Language test people naturally) and presuming I remember which choices I made, I should have a general idea whether I passed or failed but I won't know for sure until the beginning of September, no. Annie: thank you for keeping me in your thoughts! :D I knew there was something yowling at me in the back of my head when I was takg the exam. Must have been Bilbo in the background. ;P

Gaby: exactly. I could, in theory, ask the Chinese speaking folk in my class to find a site which has the answers (the answers appear on Chinese sites within days of the exam date, without the blessing of the Japanese Language test people naturally) and presuming I remember which choices I made, I should have a general idea whether I passed or failed but I won’t know for sure until the beginning of September, no.

]]> By: Gabychka http://kallewoof.com/2009/07/05/jlpt-exam-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-3301 Gabychka Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:22:19 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/?p=340#comment-3301 So you won't get the grades until September??? So you won’t get the grades until September???

]]> By: Annie http://kallewoof.com/2009/07/05/jlpt-exam-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-3300 Annie Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:16:08 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/?p=340#comment-3300 Was thinking of you and I hope you did pass!!! I am so amazed with your progress with Japanese. Was thinking of you and I hope you did pass!!! I am so amazed with your progress with Japanese.

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