Let’s get the show on the road! I’m hoping to take the test this December, so let’s use this thread to track our hopes and dreams and our tears and fears.
頑張ろう！
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That was quick 
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With Hinata’s support there is no way were gonna fail 
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Haikyuu is the perfect hype anime. Listening to the music whilst doing Bunpro reviews.
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What level are you taking?
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N1! I was going to try this summer, but thought I’d give myself more breathing room and focus on improving my grammar and writing (redoing all grammar reviews as cloze output) rather than hyper-optimising for the JLPT.
Hoping to have all of the grammar points finished by September 10th or so, and hopefully my long queue of vocab cards cleared out. Then I’ll work through the Shin Kanzen Master books, probably making Anki cards for the grammar questions.
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頑張れ！
Just curious what the thought process is behind making Anki cards for questions in the Shinkanzen Master textbooks!
Also, I don’t think it’s a secret by any means, but this guys content is absolutely stellar for JLPT prep. I think he follows the Shinkanzen Master very closely. His target audience is Chinese, but all his lessons are 100% in Japanese.
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@Jacob-Bunpro
One of my biggest stumbling blocks when working through N2 was doing a lot of textbooks with practice questions, marking them right or wrong, but never going back and revising why I got them right or wrong. This is especially true with grammar where subtle nuances are a bit painful to differentiate. So Anki is an organic way of me revisiting those mistakes.
Yes, I might overfit for the Shinkanzen questions, but I’m hoping to revisit where I make mistakes and which grammar points I struggle on.
Bunpro primarily helps selecting the grammar point with the hint/context in place (I use Bunpro with 0 hints and try to minimise the hints) but because the hints are ever present in Cloze reviews there’s an inherent overfitting for the Bunpro hints. I can’t experience easily the JLPT style questions.
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Thanks a lot for creating this thread!
Hoping to register for N4 in December. Which is not that easy apparently, with slots filling up in a matter of minutes after registration opens 
I’m halfway through the Bunpro N4 grammar and vocab decks at the moment and I’ve somehow managed to pass the first N4 mock test on Bunpro. Migii is seriously kicking my ass, though
I know I have to double down on grammar and listening. And while I’m cautiously optimistic about grammar — just hoping to finish the Bunpro deck and then cram the hell out of it with 新完全マスター and 日本語総まとめ — the listening part gives me the jitters already now.
I’ve been trying to listen to podcasts and YouTube videos. But I’m in this weird “in-between”, where beginners’ stuff (by Shun and Yuki-san, for example) seems too easy, but N4 practice exercises are way too hard
Anyways, first things first! I wish everyone planning to take the December exam the best of luck in getting a slot!
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This gives me some good ideas for content! 
One strategy you may find useful is slowly working through the Shinkanzen Master, really hitting either 1 section per day, or a handful of grammar points pretty hard each day, looking at multiple resources. Record your scores for each section.
Then ~1 month before the exam, going through all the practice sections in a week without reviewing anything to see where you are/what you need to brush up on. There’s a million different ways to study though, that’s just what I’ve found helpful.
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Alright, here we go again, this time was not created by あのウサギさん! Only 152 days left…
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I would like 2 Bunpro question types to help fix the gap I have:
- Multiple choice, where the correct answer of multiple similar ones is provided. This could be in similar grammar points of nuance, conjugations etc.
- Duolingo style, where the vocab/particles are ordered to write the correct answer.
My main request is to make these hard - e.g. 8+ options for multiple choice, and many red herring cards for the Duolingo style so you cannot metagame them.
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And yes I like to math out “if I do 8 pages a day then I can do this book in 20 days…” which is very helpful.
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Finally a JLPT thread in which I’ll be taking part as a JLPT participant.
Will be taking N1 this December
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Hoping to take N1 this December, and see I’m not alone! Good luck everyone!
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Hoping for N3 here 🫡
I still have some work ahead as you can see but I’m not too worried, I’ve been getting better at reading/watching native material lately. 6+ months feels more than enough to be ready as long as I keep going like this
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Beat me to it …
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I miiiight go for N3, I’m still deciding if I actually want to put in the effort to study or not.
Rebranding to Hairybunny as we speak…
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