I guess you mean ローマ字 
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Try and stop my lazy ass
(Also hiragana would present the same issue)
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ochitsuite…
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It’s not even called romanji 
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Tbh tho I really just hate switching keyboards on PC, tho on phone I don’t mind.
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I’ve never even managed to install a proper Japanese keyboard on my computer, I’m too stupid to learn the language 
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The japanese police are on their way to come suck the language back out of your brain with a big straw
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As long as they tell me I’m 日本語上手 while they do it, I’m ready to embrace this exciting new immersion opportunity
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Ironically, I think the one extended experience I had with the Japanese police didn’t have a 日本語上手 involved 
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四級に頑張ろう
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I’m back on bunpro to study more. Failed July N2 spectacularly (to the point I think I messed up my scantron because my practice tests were not THAT bad), so we’re back at it again with N2 in December. Listening was my best score at 37/60, so we’re focusing on reading and kanji for the next few months. Truly, my reading speed screwed me over, I think. Still practicing grammar and vocabulary on bunpro, but really taking the time to just read and I’m really excited about it.
Also picked up the official JLPT practice tests and some extra workbooks. And for funsies, started a timesheet for practicing Japanese as well. I’ve got the cold from hell so it’s looking meh at the moment, but I’m excited to watch it start growing.
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I’m signed up for N2 in December. I plan to cram lots of practice tests come November, but for now what sources (like specific ones) are recommended for N2 level listening and reading practice? I think I need some reinforcement in those areas.
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back trying N4 in Honolulu in Dec - hoping to get a little closer this time but I swear the genki 2 points just ain’t sticking as well
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Try Shin Kanzen Master books. As for listening YouTube has loads of practice tests. But I think listening is one of the hardest things to train for in my experience.
I’m also studying for N2, so I can’t come at this from a position of authority. I can only tell you what I’m trying.
Listening has been my weakness since N4. I actually listen to a ton of stuff. I even live and work in Japan, so I hear a lot of Japanese. But that didn’t help me much sitting the N3 - I felt absolutely hammered. Even though I managed to sneak a pass, I realized that something needed to change.
I did pay a lot of attention to why I felt the listening was so tough, though. It was almost always the case that I’d get hung up on a word that I knew, but could not recall quickly enough for the exam. While my train of thought derailed, hunting for that word in my memory, I would miss the rest of the sentence, and become completely lost by the time I’d actually found the word I was looking for. This is apparently pretty common. The issue is recall speed, and from what I can tell, there are two primary ways of dealing with this.
First, you can increase the speed of what you are listening to. Something like 1.1-1.25x is the sweet spot. Faster than that and the words start to sound different enough that you’re not really training your brain on the same stimulus. But you are essentially training your brain to recall meaning under time pressure. People who’ve done this say that the listening section feels pretty easy as a result.
Second, you can move from listening to shadowing. This forces your brain to learn to dual-track. You have to keep listening so that your mouth can keep making the sounds, even while your brain is trying to process the meaning. While your recall is not specifically being trained for speed, the idea is that you won’t miss anything during the recall period.
I tried both, and preferred shadowing. Both are pretty intense, though, and I max out at about half an hour, which is less than the ‘normal’ listening I was doing in the run-up to the N3. I feel like it’s helping, but ultimately I won’t have any proof either way until I sit the N2 next year.
If you try one of these approaches, I’d love to hear how it works out.
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I’m free from JLPT for now. I just passed the N3 in July and the step would be N2 but no way, as a working person, can study for N2 without spending all my energy (that I don’t have lol), my time (neither have this), or my evenings to study. So happy to finally pass after 3 consecutive sessions!
Good luck to people taking it in December tho, I give you the strength I will not have to use this time 
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I took a Bunpro practice test a while ago (in February), passed it without any dedicated prep or studying, and then signed up for the N3 still without any dedicated studying. Now I’m panicking and here comes the dedicated N3 studying. I currently have a 19-day streak, which is my longest streak on Bunpro by far. Pray for me and we’ll see if I can actually study every day until the test or if I just do my usual thing of “reading” stuff that’s way too difficult for me. 
(Hoping to finish chapter 8 of Project Hail Mary before December if I don’t get bored. I’m currently 79 pages out of 286 pages in for the first volume, on chapter 3… Only need to get through two chapters per month, but I’m not good at things like “consistency” and “doing stuff on the daily.”)
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My goodness, I just paid €1220 for train & hotel and I’m not even confident I can pass the exam. Is this the price of London during the Christmas season?
I guess there’s no motivator like the prospect of wasting a fat pile of money though. Time to hit the books.
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Trying to get in an hour of listening practice a day from now until the N4 to improve my audio skills.
I am confident I can pass everything else with a decent score, but I feel my listening lets me down.
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This gives a sparkle of hope though. It is an “easy” test, but if I keep improving from here in the time we’ve got left, maybe I’ve got a fighting chance.
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