Well done! I definitely shouldn't have allowed the gap get so small. Surprised you answered as… - Feed Post from mog86uk to fuonk
Well done! I definitely shouldn't have allowed the gap get so small. Surprised you answered as many as 5,871 questions in one day (so far). You may have beaten my record for that too. ^^
Now, the big question is which one of us has the most remaining EXP available in Practice - who will run out of non above 29 times answered correctly questions first? I'm pretty certain this is me too though. XD
Now, the big question is which one of us has the most remaining EXP available in Practice - who will run out of non above 29 times answered correctly questions first? I'm pretty certain this is me too though. XD
posted by mog86uk
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Actually, I just wanted to attain the position of #1. I'm not very attached to keeping it, so you can take it back any time you want. I am also low on questions which haven't been answered correctly 29 times. :-)
You answered 6,543 questions by the end of the day!? My record was 5,617 questions in one day (2016-01-28), so you had beaten that already but definitely have now. :D
Over a year ago I ran out of questions for levels 1 to 6 which haven't been answered correctly 29 times. Yesterday I also ran out of these for level 7 too (just finished confirming this by doing all the level 7 vocab and kanji chapter tests). So I now only have level 8 remaining to earn normal EXP on. ^^;
Aasian will probably be overtaking us both soon anyway. I think he's made less mistakes than us, or at least definitely less than I have, so he probably won't run out of normal EXP as early as us...- Worked out I'll run out of reasonable EXP at around 11.2 million. Each perfect run through of all 481 questions in level 8 nets 65,340 EXP. I've only got roughly seven repetitions remaining, as an estimated average. If you are able go significantly further than that, I might not realistically ever be able to catch up... Or if Aasian or Joeyou2015 or someone else goes more than a short distance past that... ^^;;
- Congratulations on resuming your proper ranking. :-)
I just went back to ReadTheKanji for the first time in a long time (why don't we have a word like 久しぶり in English?). I forgot some specific words, but on the whole, I think my reading is a bit faster after all the practice here. There are still a few N3 vocabulary words I don't know yet, though-- N2 is still far off in the distance. 
Both of you are MY No.1!!- @fuonk, Are you aiming to take N2, or is it simply that the order you are progressing through vocabulary has been through JLPT order?
I'm not aiming to take JLPT, however I have been studying vocabulary a bit on my phone, which happens to focus on the JLPT levels. I mainly use this app when I'm out walking my dog, since he dawdles for ages sniffing stuff. The quiz I'm currently going over is N2. I made a blog page showing my progress with using this app, if you're interested in JLPT vocabulary:
https://plus.google.com/collection/krl_fB
The newer of the two posts shows what the questions are like, and the older post shows has screenshots showing my current progress. I've gotten quite far with it. I guess you prefer RTK's way of showing the question within the sentence, but it does give instant access to example sentences for each question too (like how JCJP does now). ^_^ - @mog86uk,
I sometimes fantasize about spending a year or two in Japan working, and N2 certification might widen the range of jobs I could apply for. I guess English teaching is more likely than anything else, though, and JLPT certification is often not required for that. In any case, I will not be free to consider this any time in the next couple of years.
I wasn't aware that JCJP had incorporated sentence examples-- I'll have to take a look. Do you know if they are from the Tanaka corpus? (That's the sentence example database used by most free dictionary programs, and the most likely source because of its free reusability. It's a valuable source, but it does have some weaknesses.) - I was wondering, is it only learning vocabulary that you feel you still need more practice in before taking N2? For me, if I was planning to take any JLPT levels, I would feel I need to work on grammar much more than vocabulary. Listening skill is another area I'd be very concerned about (although listening to Japanese radio a lot recently may have helped me overcome my deficiency in this). If I was told I had to take N2 and I had only three days to prepare for it, I probably wouldn't even practice vocabulary or kanji at all, and would instead be worrying about everything else. ^^;
The example sentences can be viewed by clicking the "sentences" buttons in the encounter history.
I haven't double checked which one JCJP is using, but I'm fairly sure it is the Tatoeba Project's sentences database (which is largely made up of the Tanaka Corpus). Although it may well just be using the Tanaka Corpus itself. During the previous version of JCJP we had a different example sentences database (definitely neither Tatoeba nor Tanaka), but this disappeared with the release of the current version of JCJP. I think that one may not have been free. The current "sentences" button feature was added only a few months ago. ^^ - Listening comprehension is what I need the most work on. I think my grammar may be close to N2 level, and I've been hoping that if I read enough, my feel for grammar may improve in a better way than if I study grammatical issues more directly. Vocabulary continues to be an obstacle, however. If there are one or two words in a sentence which I don't know, I can often guess their meaning from context (especially with the hints provided by the kanji in their spellings), and still get the gist of the sentence. If there are more words I don't know, the meaning of the sentence gets lost in a fog. Ultimately, my goals are reading comprehension and listening comprehension; being able to pass the N2 is a side issue, really.
If I do study grammar directly, I want to read an elementary text written in Japanese for Japanese speakers. I started reading a middle school text at one point, but haven't carried through on that yet-- it was pretty hard work for me. - For listening coprehension, with my driving job it has been easy to listen to internet radio (via my phone connected via bluetooth to the van's sound system) and there's loads of Japanese stations to choose from. However, this is expensive to keep using a data plan which allows for that much mobile internet data usage. So what I've started doing now though is recording the radio stream on my PC overnight, then in the morning converting it to an 7 hour long .mp3 file. Then I can just chuck this on my phone and listen to prerecorded Japanese radio while at work, with the very handy added bonus of being able to rewind when I want to re-listen to something interesting. ^^
Another similar thing I've started trying is listening to anime episodes. I take an anime like Cowboy Bebop and convert the episodes from my DVDs into .mp3 files. The added bonus of Cowboy Bebop is that it has lots of cool jazz background music in the soundtrack! I wasn't sure if this would be fun, and the action scenes can be a bit awkward to listen to, but for the most part it is enjoyable and has been very effective practice since I can picture exactly what is going on from memory and so have a decent chance of being able to interpret the sentences being spoken. This method can be more enjoyable than it sounds so long as you choose the right anime/drama/movie to use. :)
For reading practice, I don't really like reading even books written in English, so I struggle with wanting to do it for Japanese books also. I own a Japanese translation of the Bible, which has over 2,000 pages. In the few years I've had it I've only gotten through about 20 pages... ^^;
But yeah, elementary school text is better. I've tried that before but get bored of it very quickly. Here are some of the best sites I know of for finding simple reading material:
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/
http://language.tiu.ac.jp/materials/
http://life.ou.edu/stories/
http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/kids/
https://chokochoko.wordpress.com/the-great-library/
The last link in that list is really good, but sadly all the PDF files are no longer available, so need to copy the site address into the Wayback Machine and timetravel back a few months, here: http://archive.org/web/
Just some ideas. ^^ - お勧めありがとうございます。