jlpt level 2!

yes! jlpt is overrrrrrrrrrr.

quite screwed.
now i have to wait for the results, which take about 3 months to come. oh well.

the paper was not as un-doable as expected, considering how i only started cramming 5000 new words and 42 pages of 文法 one week before the test.
if i'm really lucky, i might be able to scrape a pass. if i don't, i'm not taking it again! (and my parents will kill me for wasting their money.)
level 1 is so farrrrrr away.><


here's a rundown:

section 1: kanji and vocab
the easiest section. the front was okay, but i started to guess alot near the back. there was a lot of words i've never seen before.
やかましい is うるさい , not へん！

section 2: listening
the section which most people taking the test worry about, i screwed it.>< for some of the questions, i didn't even know what the people were talking about.
and would it hurt them to say their lines twice?!
at least i didn't stone off like last year.

section 3: comprehension and grammar
the longest and most tiring section. the passages were either long, or difficult, or both. as usual, i guessed my way through the grammar parts.
there was this interesting/weird passage about a guy who found a penguin in the middle of roppongi (?!), but turns out that it was a black and white cat (?!!). i died on the questions for this one anyway.
jap compre is becoming more and more like chinese compre, where they ask you to explain what all those 修辞手法 and literary devices mean. and of course, i didn't know.


by the way, SMU is super cool! and high tech. the test room had tables in a semicircle, and the chairs are the office type which are super comfortable.
sort of reminds me of the harry potter trial dungeon or the LT in soul eater!
pity on you, poor level 3 people who have to go to the ulu japanese school with the primary-school-kid sized chairs! aww.

and also, it's possible to see the answers of the people sitting in front of you, but of course nobody did that, duh.

ju ponned the test to go run her marathon so i had extra table space (again).

i met my primary school friend in the same test room!:D she didn't know i took jap and i didn't know she took jap.

i love coffeejp.com and all the nice sites that have grammar/vocab/kanji lists and practice papers!

that's about it - i don't have to worry about jlpt for at least another 2 years, and i don't have to struggle so hard next year because i've learnt half the things already! yay.

Labels: 日本語

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:19 PM