I had an interaction in my target language, a bit longer one, that went really smoothly. Definitely made some grammar mistakes, but communication worked out pretty well.
Going for JLPT today ! I’ll give my best, feeling pretty ready.
Hope it went well!
Thank you ! It did go pretty well :)
Which level
N4 !
すごい! Glad you were feeling confident going in. Now that you’ve (probably) taken it, what was your impression. Seemed easier/harder than expected? Do you think you did well?
Kanji/Vocabulary and grammar went wayyy better than I expected. However I round the oral comprehension part hard, probably because it was at the end and I kind of lost focus. Overall I am pretty proud of me, hope I’ll have enough points :)
I’ve begun speaking more with people in my goal language. It’s scary, but when it works, very rewarding.
We were on the road this weekend, so I had to navigate some hotel staff interactions. I was able to understand much of the language, but my ability to speak is quite limited still.
My reading is soaring forward. I finished my A2 learning book (pass #1, I’ll read it again soon) and am working through some other children’s books for basics practice.
Starting the A1 track for French on the app I use. I think I’m starting to get the gist of basic sentence construction in French now…
Still have close to zero ability to communicate in French though, I can really only handle buying stuff at the supermarket in French
Downloaded some podcasts but they’re a bit above my level. I’ll gradually work towards those
On unrelated terms, started learning Dutch pronunciation yesterday and I’m… positively impressed at how “English” the language sounds
I played around with a local LLM to practice my written French. It worked pretty well although I had to play with some settings so it would stop writing essays in response to my comments.
So real, lol. I can’t even get the big models to reliably give me shorter output.
I am learning several languages with the owl, but two of those I can and do poorly speak already. I need to be more rigorous, as I’m not really advancing. I learn new words or rule exceptions but forget them through lack of use.
This past week, I picked up a random short manga, started reading it, and…kept going to the end. I’ve never done that before, always ended up stopping. And I understood almost every last bit of it! Huge dopamine hit. I can already tell I’m going to be brimming with confidence by the time I finish my textbook in the Spring.
I also heard some wild stories about the JLPT through the grapevine. People getting disqualified because of their phones because of new rules and such. It’s freaking me out a bit, hah.
