I dunno it was pretty easy.
Don't see the point on seperating things into 'study for N1' and 'study for N2.' Learning N1-specific grammar you can do fairly quickly easily from one of the books. Then just practice N1 level reading while learning / reviewing words that are both N1 and 2 (40% of this is the same anyway). Take the test every time it comes up - no reason not to and don't worry about passing.
Why not try for N1 anyway? If your end goal is getting N1, failing N1 will teach you much more than passing N2. And who knows, maybe you'll pass for N1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR1ssSZfoGY 2:20 in this right?
-ようとしてる can come down to two things really,
but its placement in the sentence bothered me. Thank you with a nifty Mother 2 (Earthbound) cover and some decent pens and stuff. It started off pretty strong in January and February with daily entries, tapered off through March and then had an extremely shameful dry spell from April through mid-August. I was absurdly busy during that time and instead of chronicling it, I just got lazy and didn't feel up to writing it all down. I'm really regretting it now, and I've committed to writing something down each day for the rest of the year - for real this time. I take it with me everywhere I go and jot a few words down whenever I have a gap in my day.Oh cool, Chinese trailer's out with this same scene. Here's their localization:
Seems to be something like "'If you don't care about being looked down on by people, then you should go on at once and continue to make a scene!', right......" so I'd reckon you're right because he does seem to be repeating orders here. Thanks!
So something I started doing this year was keeping a handwritten journal/diary in Japanese. In order to incentivize it a bit, I spent a bit of money to get a Hobonichi Techo (that's 手帳, or てちょう - not てこ
I bring this up because I thought that some other people might be interested in doing something similar, and the 2017 Hobonichi Techos just went up for sale (English store || Japanese store). They're great little journals/day-planners with a ton of neat design features, plus they come with a little quotation or excerpt from something each day written in Japanese. We've got a thread for the planners on GAF, and it links to last year's (which links to 2015's) so you can take a look at why they're neat and what people do with them.
If you've never journaled in Japanese before, it's definitely worth doing. It's a great way to practice organizing your thoughts and forming nicer sentences, practice casual form and language that you don't get a chance to use in polite conversation, and generally just fool around with the language. If, like me, you've tried in the past and stalled out, perhaps the fact that you have this nifty little planner with nifty little tools that you spent a moderate sum on will motivate you to make more use of it. Or at the very least make you feel that much guiltier if you don't (again, like me).
So something I started doing this year was keeping a handwritten journal/diary in Japanese. In order to incentivize it a bit, I spent a bit of money to get a Hobonichi Techo (that's 手帳, or てちょう - not てこ
I bring this up because I thought that some other people might be interested in doing something similar, and the 2017 Hobonichi Techos just went up for sale (English store || Japanese store). They're great little journals/day-planners with a ton of neat design features, plus they come with a little quotation or excerpt from something each day written in Japanese. We've got a thread for the planners on GAF, and it links to last year's (which links to 2015's) so you can take a look at why they're neat and what people do with them.
If you've never journaled in Japanese before, it's definitely worth doing. It's a great way to practice organizing your thoughts and forming nicer sentences, practice casual form and language that you don't get a chance to use in polite conversation, and generally just fool around with the language. If, like me, you've tried in the past and stalled out, perhaps the fact that you have this nifty little planner with nifty little tools that you spent a moderate sum on will motivate you to make more use of it. Or at the very least make you feel that much guiltier if you don't (again, like me).
Hiragana is the language's ABCs. I'd take one to two weeks to get reading and writing hiragana and katakana down pat. It'll feel good no longer having to rely on the alphabet and months from now you'll laugh that you once spelled it "ohayou gozaimasu" instead of "おはようございます".