JLPT N3 level passed
Aug. 23rd, 2021 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_cubedSo, I've lived in Japan for ten years. I had passed the JLPT3 test before I moved here. They re-did the tests not long after than and JLPT3 is more-or-less equivalent to JLPT-N4 (the old system was 4-3-2-1 getting harder, the new ones are N5-N4-N3-N2-N1, with 1 being similar to N1 and 3 being similar to N4 but N2 and N3 being below and above the old 2.
My formal Japanese learning has been a bit messed up due to losing a teacher and not being proactive enough at finding a replacement for a few years. I had been studying N2 level, but after two rather miserable failures a couple of years ago I decided I had missed bits of N3 and needed to go down to that. It's paid off and I passed the N3 test reasonably in July. An injury disrupted the last month of study before that and I was still in some discomfort taking the test, and the result isn't quite as good as the mock test I did in May, but still. Now on to N2, which should now be easier having filled in many of the gaps in my N3 level, particularly listening and grammar elements. I plan to take the N2 test in December, but don't expect to pass it then, but maybe net year. Normally it would take two years of part time study like mine but I've already done a bunch of N2 study and even already covered all the main kanji characters up to N1, so I can concentrate on the listening, grammar and reading. The reading comprehension at N2 is still quite a step up from N3 despite the test revisions. That was mostly due to complaints that 3->2 was a huge leap for most people.
My formal Japanese learning has been a bit messed up due to losing a teacher and not being proactive enough at finding a replacement for a few years. I had been studying N2 level, but after two rather miserable failures a couple of years ago I decided I had missed bits of N3 and needed to go down to that. It's paid off and I passed the N3 test reasonably in July. An injury disrupted the last month of study before that and I was still in some discomfort taking the test, and the result isn't quite as good as the mock test I did in May, but still. Now on to N2, which should now be easier having filled in many of the gaps in my N3 level, particularly listening and grammar elements. I plan to take the N2 test in December, but don't expect to pass it then, but maybe net year. Normally it would take two years of part time study like mine but I've already done a bunch of N2 study and even already covered all the main kanji characters up to N1, so I can concentrate on the listening, grammar and reading. The reading comprehension at N2 is still quite a step up from N3 despite the test revisions. That was mostly due to complaints that 3->2 was a huge leap for most people.
