Really? You're certainly the first person I've heard this from. I find Chinese the easiest in terms of grammar and vocabulary. Only hard part is getting the pronunciation right which has been unnaturally hard for me even though my mom is Chinese.

what i say is overall all chinese, not only simplified, traditional and wen yan wen (ancient)

http://rapidshare.com/files/364590547/KonoHito.wav

I would be glad to help out with other pronunciation request.

Oh finally I got my JLPT 3 resuls..

374/400

This post has been edited by audreyreiko: Mar 22 2010, 12:02 AM

Congrats^^

Thank you

i failed my JLPT LVL 3.

motto ganbatte!!

Very nice.
About 100points more than me.

Congrats that you passed!!

Actually when I took JLPT 4 my scores were much lower than this, I guess studying it more pays off well.

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Added on March 22, 2010, 6:16 pmStudy hard and try again!

I did complete all the past year papers so that helps a lot, maybe you can try that too.

This post has been edited by audreyreiko: Mar 22 2010, 06:16 PM

Where do you get the past year papers?

You can buy the pass year exam sheets from Japanese book stores, like Kinokuniya, I saw before.

This one i went for prep course in ICLS Subang, as the sensei will also explain every question that you don't understand, plus you get to practice for listening test.

I think it's because they're certified by the Japan foundation to teach it so they have the materials.

If you buy the pass year exam booklets, I may be mistaken but I think there are no audio tapes?

is it hard to speak japanese language??

If you mean pronouncing the words, it's not hard.

If you wanna just make simple short sentences, it's pretty easy. You could have a decent conversation in short sentences after building up your vocab abit. You just won't sound natural, but ppl will understand you.

However, if you want to speak as natural as the Japanese, it's extremely tough.

Watch more Jdrama and anime, you can sort of learn how to speak more naturally

Kinda works for me.

That's how we learn fluent "american-style" english speech too, don't you think?

yeah u right maybe i need to watch Jdrama and anime so i can know to speak a little bit...
like english does..

Dun be sad.
I failed my first time too.


Thanks.
Have to thank my GF for forcing me to do past years. LOL


I dun think there will be past years for the new format now.
However, you can still try the old format.
Good practice anyway.

New format you mean starting 2010 or?

I'm assuming you mean the N1 to N5 system?

As of 2009 they are still using the old one right?

Yup.
2010 using N1 to N5.

hi minnasan, need ur help on how to improve my japanese. Actually from the test result I get, my weakest part is listening, getting 30/100, the other 2 get above 50% above. I don't want go to any Japanese language class, i want to self learn.