2011年8月6日

Enough, not enough?

I have finished studying the jlpt 2 vocab list. I already know pretty much all the grammar, but I continue adding cards, at least until I finish the unicom grammar book (almost finished). I also am finished adding all vocab cards from unicom 2kyuu vocab book. I'n now using 500 mon textbook, which is jlpt 3/2 oriented. It is divided in 4 weeks, (I'm on the 2nd), I can do one week in 2/3 days, and that's what I intend on doing.

Still,

I feel I'm not prepared. I'm finishing all textbooks at the same time. I'm also using somatome 2 kyuu reading book. After adding all this, I will read, read, read (wikipedia, random websites, my books) and add new words I find.

Despite all this, I don't feel ready to take jlpt2. I cannot say how many words I know, because many of my cards have more than 3 words (specially those I take from the news, and random articles). I estimate that I have around 6000 words, maybe more, maybe less.

Sorry for writing in english today. I was actually going to use this as a comment in another blog, that's why.

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  1. It's enough. Really. I tried the reading section and it's really only a problem/matter of grammar here, or rather, READING. I'm not used to it. I skip lines often and hate reading whole passages wholeheartedly, so it's only a matter of practice here.
    I guess for JLPT2 with 6000 words you're quite well prepared, actually.. With 6000 words you'd easily 'guess' the meaning of 光合成 f.e. (appeared in Kanzen).

    Did you do Kanzen? I will really do them all for JLPT2, because they prepare you really well!!

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  2. No, I could not guess the meaning of that word. If I had seen it in context I might would have.

    I'm going to use kanzen grammar ust to review, like one month before the test. I'm still finishing the unicom book.

    I bought a mock test and am going to simulate a real JLPT and see what's my score.

    Even though I don't read much, I enjoy reading, and lately understanding what I read became easy (except for unknown vocab, though sometimes I can guess the meaning from context).

    BTW! I officially finished the list of 2kyuu vocab! Just now! I know this because in anki a new card appeared with the word starting by "a", which means it's the first word from the 1kyuu list (I only added a few). YAY!

    Now I will finishing adding the vocab of the books mentioned above and will read, read and read so that I can get more vocab and reading speed :D

    I add so many cards a week that I have still 505 unseen cards, learnind 30 new a day - actually tried doing 50 a day for like 2 weeks but I got so, so tired that had to stop with that. How many new cards do you learn a day?

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