JLPT4 Honorifics/Humble

[marlowe]

I can only speak for myself personally but I found it extremely confusing to be hit with an avalanche of honorific and humble grammar right at the end of JLPT4, and found it very frustrating picking out the right point of grammar to use.

Might I suggest that honorific and humble grammar points be sprinkled throughout the second half of JLPT4 grammar so each point can better grasped and practiced?

The difference between お～する and いたす I am especially always getting wrong because they are both humble but I always choose the wrong level of humility since the questions usually just say “[HUMBLE]”.

[Adyatma16]

I second this

[HotAirGun]

I totally agree, I still have a hard time doing these N4 reviews. Sometimes they’re barely distinguishable.

[Asher]

In the process of doing our grammar explanations for N4, many of the N4 grammar points are getting moved around, in the same way that we moved around a lot of the N5 grammar points. However, at the moment, the honorific grammar points are staying chunked together (although in a slightly different order).

The main reason we decided to keep them together (once things have been reshuffled) is because we are confident that we can do the grammar explanations in a way that will make the differences far easier to identify than they are at the moment. Reading one explanation followed by the next will (hopefully) reinforce those differences, rather than make them more difficult.