Tass his Trash - ZOMFG!!!!

From: _puchula_ Date: March 5th, 2009 08:38 pm (UTC) (Link)

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Those are such great news Zic! I'm really happy for you, you deserve it after all the hard work and anxiety. And you got a very good grade on writting, that's pretty cool too.

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From: mtassarion Date: March 5th, 2009 09:53 pm (UTC) (Link)

:D thanks paula!
I was rather satisfied with the writing grade yes. Also because I knew more than twice the number of characters required for that level so it was nice to see that paid off.

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From: pcrodent Date: March 6th, 2009 12:13 am (UTC) (Link)

those bastards! They sent you the certificate right away, abroad no less, but if I want one I need to pay an extra 1000 yen and wait a couple of weeks!
congrats though ;-)

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From: mtassarion Date: March 6th, 2009 01:17 pm (UTC) (Link)

muhaaa!

thanks! :)

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From: lissywizzy Date: March 6th, 2009 12:28 pm (UTC) (Link)

JEEEJ! Gefeliciteerd, Zicje! ^__^
Niet dat het een verrassing is voor mij.
*Knuffel*

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From: mtassarion Date: March 6th, 2009 01:18 pm (UTC) (Link)

:D voor mij was het wel een verassing! *knuftrug*

krijg ik nou een kus?

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From: lissywizzy Date: March 6th, 2009 02:19 pm (UTC) (Link)

Dubbel r, slimpie.

Vooruit. *Kus*

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From: mtassarion Date: March 6th, 2009 03:48 pm (UTC) (Link)

joh..

woo!

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From: xxxshinyasxxx Date: March 6th, 2009 01:01 pm (UTC) (Link)

omg congrats!! that's awesome :D

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From: mtassarion Date: March 6th, 2009 01:19 pm (UTC) (Link)

:D thanks! I was so happy when I saw that certificate inside :O

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From: xxxshinyasxxx Date: March 7th, 2009 01:59 am (UTC) (Link)

how long have you studied japanese for? i was thinking of going for leverl 3 this year

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From: mtassarion Date: March 7th, 2009 08:05 am (UTC) (Link)

not as long as you have i think. it was 1.5 years when i took that test.

I have studied kana and stuff by myself for a couple of months at first, then i had a full academic year of Japanese class, and during the summer after that I also had a continuation of those classes and in the new academic year I started somewhere else with Japanese classes which is where I am at now.

What is also funny is that I had only studied the first volume out of three of my Japanese learning method. And you are supposed to be able to do JLPT3 once you have done all three.. so I basically rushed the second volume and didn't even have time for the third before I took the test. So that sort of explains the rather low grammar grade.
The reason for the slow progress on those methods is basically because the calsses I was in didn't go any faster, so i've figured it'd be the best if i just get a private teacher. But she wants to start in volume three so now i'm basically just working ahead of my classes so I can start right away with three when my current Japanese class ends and I take lessons from that private teacher.

So i'm sure you will be able to get a nicer grade than I did as you will probably not have to rush things and just can do everything at your own speed. Maybe, if you want to be sure of your skill, you should get a private teacher too. I don't think it is too expensive but it does cost a fair amount of money. Oh and i also used these old JLPT books with cd's that contain the listening part, that's a very convenient tool to learn how to do the JLPT.

Good luck!

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From: xxxshinyasxxx Date: March 12th, 2009 08:32 am (UTC) (Link)

ahh okay, i've done it for two and a half years, but two years by correspondance by myself at high school then half a year gap and then half the year at uni, doing stuff i'd already learnt DX and this year i'm doing it at uni again.

goodluck with the private teacher :D the grammers kinda slow in my class too, cos i've learnt most of it before.. but the kanji i don't know and some of the vocab lol. unfortunately i really don't have enough money for a private teacher T_T I'll look for some old JLPT books though :D I may be becoming a japanese mentor for someone the year below me so that might help just with revision.

good luck to you too! you sound like you're really good :D oneday we can both be fluent and talk to each other in japanese instead of english for practise...

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From: mtassarion Date: March 12th, 2009 02:00 pm (UTC) (Link)

becoming a tutor is great for revision! I haven't done it but if you even get paid for it that would be great.

I'm only 'good' because I put so much effort into it. I actually tend to think I rather suck at languages. One of the reasons I wanted to learn Japanese was because I regretted it so much that I flunked my French and German in school, so I wanted to do it properly this time :P

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From: searching__ Date: March 6th, 2009 01:42 pm (UTC) (Link)

Congrats!! :)

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From: mtassarion Date: March 6th, 2009 03:40 pm (UTC) (Link)

thanks! :D Ik heb het niet zo goed gedaan als je broer maargoed.. dat was ook wel te verwachten :P

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From: prof_blink Date: March 6th, 2009 09:45 pm (UTC) (Link)

Congratulations dude!!! Woohooo! :D

How shall we celebrate??

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From: mtassarion Date: March 7th, 2009 08:07 am (UTC) (Link)

:D I was so relieved when I found out I passed..

well.. for starters.. you could come over here xD :P

Btw, how are your ECDLs going?

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From: prof_blink Date: March 11th, 2009 06:23 pm (UTC) (Link)

Still got two more to do. Unfortunately I'm working on the day of the next scheduled test, and as I've only been here 2 days I don't wanna piss the director off by asking for the day off so soon after starting. So... at the moment... nowhere. :S

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