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I took the N3. I did the best on vocab/kanji, struggled on grammar and reading comprehension (I practically had to skim through the reading since after I completed the grammar part, I didn't have enough time for the reading), and did so-so on listening. I'm not sure if I even passed lol
haha i know the feeling >_<by the time i finished the reading/grammar/vocab/kanji i only had like 5 minutes until the time limit ran out so barley had enough time to throughly check my answers.. I was very suprised how easy the kanji and vocab questions were for n1! I want to say the kanji questions felt easier compared to the n2 test last year but my memory of the test is a bit blurry haha.We had to identify the readings of 唱ãˆã‚‹ã€€èˆˆå¥®ã€€éšæ™‚ã€€ã€€åŠ±ã‚€ 変é·, usage of 辞任 and like 2 token katakana vocab questions(LOVE THESE)! im just really suprised 興奮 was there cuz it was one of the earlier vocab i learned and I remember seeing that in a lower intermediate Japanese textbook haha. Reading comp and listening this year felt pretty difficult though... really hope i passed.
If you plan on taking jlpt again in the future i really reccommend just attempting n2 even if you didn't pass n3 ! I never attempted the n3 but for n2 i only prepped for the test for around 2-3 months and managed to pass with a decent score. I mainly relied on the 新完全マスター jlpt prep books to prepare for the test though
Hope we both pass >_<
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Anyone take the jlpt on the 6th? I took n1 this year! i found the èªè§£ part pretty hard but the rest of the test seemed pretty ok! If anyone else took one of the 5 levels how did you think it went? So many people taking the test this year where my test site was. Felt like double compared to last december
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Like Tea said immersion is the best way to learn. Its also good to let yourself experience many different kinds of media/ enviorments since word choice/ patterns etc can really differentiate depending on what you're looking at.and you will learn a lot more with more variety.
As for memorization.. like for readings and vocab i relied on a program called ANKI ( made my own decks instead of using premade ones) but for me, what helped me memorized readings/ vocab the most was just reading a lot.(ANKI sure did help with the more uncommon readings though
As for textbooks... there are so many nowadays. Ive only used like 2 series so i can't really give a fair judgment on whats the best textbook, but for intermediate guided learning i used "An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese ." books pretty boring but it definitley helped progress my Japanese.
After this book i mainly relied on jlpt prep books( levels 2 and 1) for the more advanced grammar points. I mainly used them to study for the jlpt but after using them, I really feel that these books makes learning advanced grammar much easier since the books gave very clear and easy to understand explanations in Japanese. You can find these free online, so i recommend giving them a try if you still want guided textbook learning after you finish an intermediate book.
As for finding someone to talk to, language exchange sites are great, but if you happen to like games, playing an online game in Japanese every now and then may be helpful to you.