Category: motivation / daily study
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Motivation: studying Anki
If you are learning a foreign language, you are certainly using a spaced repetition system (SRS) to memorise vocabulary. I personally use Anki and created my deck from scratch when I started learning Japanese. Today, it contains more than 7000 words and expressions and I can say that, contrary to any other material, this Anki […]
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Daily Study: working on input
The concept of “input” may be familiar to a lot of language learners, but I didn’t know the word “input” until I discovered the website Antimoon. Antimoon gives advice to English learner, but of course, they can be applied to any other language. The authors of Antimoon stress the importance of input through several enlightening articles […]
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JLPT 2017 second test and beyond
Yesterday was finally the second JLPT test of the year. As I prepared a lot for it, I cannot but give my impressions on the test. Disappointed 😫 To be honest, I went to the test with a decent amount of self-confidence. I was particularly afraid of the grammar part so I worked a lot […]
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Things I want to do after the JLPT and planning for next year!
These last months have been almost entirely devoted to preparing for N2. I am very happy that I did it because it helped me improve my vocabulary and grammar knowledge with the result that I can read books in Japanese more comfortably now than I could this summer. I also worked a lot on improving […]
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Some last listening exercises before the JLPT
The Korean publisher Darakwon has an interesting series to practice the listening part of the JLPT. It is called 新일본어 능력시험 청해 콕콕 찍어주마. It exists for every level, but N4 and N5 are grouped in the same series. I only have the N2 book for listening, which is called: 新일본어 능력시험 청해 콕콕 찍어주마 -N2 […]
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Daily Japanese Study: JLPT N2, third month recap
October is almost over, and I have hoped that I would be left with only revisions to do (no new words or grammar) for the last month of preparation for JLPT N2. Well, I am more or less where I wanted to be. Let’s turn back on what happened in October. Note: I started working […]
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Variations in level of difficulty
Varying the level of difficulty of books I read helps me stay motivated to learn Japanese. Instead of always picking books that fit my level I sometimes read easy novels, sometimes challenging ones. I explain in this post how it helps me and what are the benefits of varying difficulty levels.
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Motivation: starting a bullet journal
What about starting a bullet journal to organise my Japanese study? Learning a language on one’s own requires some organisation system to stay productive throughout the year. I have never done a bullet journal before and I think that now is a perfect time to start one!
Inside That Japanese Book 