Comments | space__between: Hi time for a journal entry

space__between

Hi time for a journal entry

Mar 14, 2005 14:38

So it's been far too long since I typed in this thing and I imagine that with the comming of next year and my (hopefully inevitable) return to Japan (as well as a new cellphone/camera with which I can document my adventures) this journal will once again bloom with life. I don't really have much to write about right now...well I guess that isn't ( Read more... )

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play_ball March 14 2005, 22:00:45 UTC

nicely done!

if you think the listening part of level 1 is easy...level 2's was just a matter of staying awake.

amiiro March 14 2005, 22:53:02 UTC

To me, the listening is so easy it's hard. I've actually missed a couple of questions on 1kyu practice before because my mind wandered and I had no idea what was said in the dialogue by the time the question came around. It's really hard to make yourself concentrate on stuff like that...I don't know why they make it so damn easy.

play_ball March 14 2005, 22:57:13 UTC

actually, yeah, I missed a couple of easy ones because they started out mad simple so I'd get bored, and then they'd throw the necessary detail (did the cat have one black ear, or two?) right at the end.

Thanks! space__between March 15 2005, 03:36:01 UTC

Yeah I totally know what you both mean, you start to space off and then right at the end they will be like...was the bush on the left side of the house or the right? At which point I'm like, "How the fuck should I know?! I was listening to the train departure times~!" I didn't do as well as i thought i would on the listening section but whatever..I'm just glad the things over. If you want a tougher listening section the JTEST (only administered in Japan and china tho) is half listening questions and they get progressively harder as you reach the end of the 40 someodd question set. The last two or three are usually 2 minute speeches about biology or business. Fun stuff...except for the biz. Qs. booo on those. Anyhow its a much more accurate (maybe?) test since it isn't pass or fail its graded into levels and has a portion, albeit a small one, where you have to construct sentences and use phrases actively instead of passively.