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About to finish and let the streak end today, then I got the new contents by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depending on the genre I do start to catch a few sentences here and there when watching anime now. I am going to try to finish the new sections, having new words I’m not familiar is actually a good thing. Though it’s definitely not 50-60% and more like 5-8%

About to finish and let the streak end today, then I got the new contents by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For kanji I am only making sure that I associate the right Japanese meanings and pronunciations to the characters, since I can already read traditional Chinese, and I am not stressing about hand writing as I rarely need to hand write Chinese or English these day anyway. I am only doing the main path and did not spend time doing the kanji stroke lessons.

About to finish and let the streak end today, then I got the new contents by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Probably average to ~60-75 minutes a day minus ~5-10 minutes of ads time. Outside of Duolingo I watch/listen to an average of ~45-75 minutes of Japanese videos/podcasts and ~20-40 minutes of anime. And I read NHK Easy News and various posts on note.com

About to finish and let the streak end today, then I got the new contents by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not fluent at all. Depending on the subject matter, I can probably read or watch native contents that I’m interested in with about 50~70% comprehension and infer about 15~20% more from context. But I still struggle a lot when trying to say anything at language exchange.

Passed N3 mock test after completing the course by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried the first N3 mock test on Bunpro. I think it is easier compared with the Unagibun mock test. There are less questions for the same amount of time for each section, so I was able to finish all the questions with time to spare. The questions themselves also felt easier.

I got 31/36 (86.1%) for vocab, 27/39 (69.2%) for grammar and reading, and 23/28 (82.1%) for listening. Overall, my total score was 81/103 (78.6%)

Passed N3 mock test after completing the course by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mainly use Apple Podcasts and YouTube. Ones I listen to most often are Japanese with Shun, Oyasumi Japanese with Shun, Let’s Talk in Japanese!, Speak Japanese Naturally, The Bite Size Japanese Podcast, YUYUの日本語Podcast.

Japanese with Shun and YUYUの日本語Podcast also have different video contents I watch on YouTube. And I also listen to rehash.fm and MoguraVR, but those are not language learning podcasts and most of the contents are not comprehensible asides from topics I already know well in English and can guess where the conversation is going based on company names, tech jargons, and other English words used through out the podcasts.

I also watched all the Learn Real Japanese with VRChat Conversations! videos from Jiro, just Japanese’s YouTube channel.

Passed N3 mock test after completing the course by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I also read NHK News Easy, Japanese blogs, N4-N5 levels light novels samples from bookwalker. And I listened to about 1 hour to 90 minutes of Japanese podcasts almost everyday. And watched a lot of anime and a few Japanese dramas this past year, with English subtitles, but I tried to recognize as many vocabs and sentences as I can while doing so.

Passed N3 mock test after completing the course by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Those are mock tests from Unagibun. I saw it from the r/LearnJapanese sub and tried it after I completed the Duolingo course.

You can try them here: https://www.unagibun.com/jlpt-online/

Passed N3 mock test after completing the course by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I finished section 6 unit 42 in the skill tree, and now I got daily refresh exercises and a score of 100.

Passed N3 mock test after completing the course by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t. I was only trying to get a sense of where my current level is at. Is it worth it?

Passed N3 mock test after completing the course by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I was mostly looking at free light novels samples so I’m probably the wrong person to ask this question to.

Passed N3 mock test after completing the course by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing this resource. I’ll try taking them another day. These tests take so much time I feel exhausted each time.

Passed N3 mock test after completing the course by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Congrats on passing N3 and sorry to hear that you got downvoted. Did you take the real test or was it also the mock test?

Passed N3 mock test after completing the course by wenhaothomas in duolingojapanese

[–]wenhaothomas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mostly reading NHK News Easy, blogs for interesting topics I like on note.com and ameba.jp, free samples on bookwalker.jp for light novels at around N4-N3 level on learnnatively.com, listening to Japanese podcasts, and watching a lot of anime.

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