#also for context this is from the 6 year plus d&d game i'm in

[nickelstudy]

JLPT N1 Experience

So first of all, Happy New Year. It has been a while since I've updated this blog. I've been feeling depressed in the past few weeks, I think it's because of drawing? I feel like I haven't been performing well in art, and that it's hard to accept painful truth that I cannot please everyone- not that it matters on this blog, but it's WHY I decide to take some time to write an update here.

I was supposed to talk about my first experience with N1 but I got busy after. I caught up in many stuff, I guess, plus I was busy with my birthday and helping my family's work throughout the month. But now that it's over, let's talk shall we?

Before That

I haven't talked about my last week strategy, here's what I did.

Stopped learning Kanji and do the drills instead

Finished Shinkanzen Grammar in the first section. I had some days left, so I skimmed through the second section without doing the exercise (I did for A - D i think but- I definitely shouldn't)

Borrowed these two books (pic below). For reading, I did every bit of every question style (there were like 6 of them right? Short passage, Long, etc.)

And for listening, I tried to rush through it but I kinda gave up with the chapter III or IV I'm not sure.

I switched between two of them on the last day

FYI the blue book is actually fantastic! I think I've said it before but it has explanation for each answers. I think it's super cool.

Now For N1

Chapter 1: Before exam

For context, I travelled to the exam location alone, so I wasn't bounded by anyone and I could roam anywhere. I got out early, and arrived there pretty early. But walking from the entrance to the exam spot took a while, to the point where I doubted to myself if I was going in the right direction. There were many people there already. I think the morning peeps had already entered the room when I arrived.

I had lunch and... wander around (Typical Pikmin Bloom player). There wasn't much to do anyway. I decided to take a quick review of some onomatopoeia and other vocabs. I think at that point, nothing is more important than vocabs. It was a while before they allowed us to go up the building. Anyway, I SAW A KID in a highschooler outfit in front of the same room as mine! IM- I DON'T KNOW?? HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO BE THIS GOOD AT THAT AGE?? And of course we entered the room. I sat not so far from the entrance.

One thing that bothers me is the fact that they never announced to bring a mask but they asked everyone to wear it in the room?? Luckily, I had it on already.

Chapter 2: The Exam

Sorry for the long introduction haha. SO, starting off with vocabs, grammars, and reading. I skipped to grammar secion first because it's not too hard or too easy. It's all fuzzy now but I did okay(?)

There was あっての that's pretty easy. But there was one of them that bugged me and I was wrong on that one too. It's といたしまして... so weird, I didn't expect it to answer that. ALSO, HONORIFIC VERB CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD but i think i answered it right.

Then onto reading section because I was really scared if I couldn't finished it. It- took me a while to finish each of them but in a fair amount of time. It's like 10 minutes left that I switched to doing vocabs with a lightning speed because I FORGOT there was a fill in the blanks and not just guessing kanji's reading.

I almost got 誇張 (こちょう) wrong as こうちょう

There were 奇跡、偏り、矛盾、賄う、軽率 in which i had no problems

Filling the words is where I had problem due to hurriness. I missed the 快挙 cause I don't know the word.

見返り too, because there was a word that I thought it meant (repay) and not the first

I GOT ONOMATOPOEIA WRONG ANYwAY HECC YEA i didn't know what つくづく means so i went with きっかり or きっぱり im not sure

Also there was a sentence that was supposed to mean "His body condition was..." I thought it was "worsen" so I went with 崩れる except no it's the opposite "ほぐれる". I didn't know that word but i've seen it before it's the goodamn spirit's name from the game.

I didn't know what 尺度 means or how it is read but I got the meaning substitution right (yay) (it's standard)

Here's the fun one. デマ... THIS WORD THAT I NEED TO GUESS HOW IT IS USED WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING ITS MEANING. I tried to came up with the word this word could come from. Dermatologist? Demand? Theme??? (that's テーマ) I had no idea and got it wrong eventually. Can you guess?

It's "Demagogie", a German word meaning false rumor... WHO WOULD'VE GUESSED. I asked one of my Japanese if she knew. Of course she did. She even gave me an alternative for it too... but I forgot. I only know that's it in katakana (im sorry)

Last minute i left one Mondai randomly answered!

For Choukai, it was so goddamn fast. I am certain that if it wasn't fast, it would be manageable for me. I honestly don't know if I scored it well or not, the last listening part were as hard as ever. ONE THING ABT IT THOUGH, there was a part where they were talking in a cafe about how the shop owner use a coffee beans? I think?

ANd FOR GOD'S SAKE WHAT'S WITH THE BACKGROUND MUSIC??? My concentration was popped away, I kept glancing around wondering if what I was hearing was someone's phone or the tape's music. I don't even know what the question really was to be honest.

What's Next?

I- I don't know. I just need to wait for the result. But I'll try to slowly get back to learning a bit Korean and Japanese every day again. Probably need to brush up Memrise and Anki. At least 5 mins a day haha. Thanks for reading til here. Keep on learning! I'll make sure to do my best for learning languages this year too!

I don't have new year's resolution but I guess.. continue ASL? I got busy that I have no time to do it anymore. I doubt if I can do it, considering I'll be busy with internship next academic year.

Anyway, have a great year everyone. Hope you have a good luck and success with studying and anything you are willing to pursue this year.

[lightninginhersoul]

I feel like I already know some of the answers, but ask meme for Karsia.

<3 thank you queen!!!

I am absolutely going to have to answer as myself despite the fact that Kallista always kinda jumps out of me when I answer questions about karsia lmao, but I'm also gonna maybe go for some deep cuts? idk we'll see where this goes

blorbo: oh this of course has to be Kallista, light of my light and a whole nightmare of a tiefling, the OG Bring Your Own Blorbo. i still can't believe that i decided to make her an edgy rogue and i somehow didn't see how much she cares about people, to the point that she's in the middle of a love pentacle and frankly only has good options.

Scrunkly: Lumen is BABY, she's just so adorable and every time there's a baby lumen drawing i LOSE MY MIND. However i'm also gonna toss Ephrim in there because that kid is ruling a city, eats hearts to get memories, and holds thousands of years in memories and also yet is just the sweetest kid.

Scrimblo bimblo: ughhhh this is hard. I'm gonna put sapphire in there I think because there's a lot I think we still have to discover and i think her interactions with kallista are always hilariously terrible in the most catastrophic way, with the energy of "either we're gonna kill each other or kiss and we never are interested in the same option at the same time". I don't think she quite gets enough credit for some of the crazy things that she pulls off - Chad Agate was a MASTERSTROKE.

I'm also gonna say Beckett, because there's so much going on there and I wanna KNOW what he's been up to, I love a political drama and he's right at the middle of it, Bredon might be the Only Good Man in Karsia but Beckett is also a delight. "Kallista, I know you feel the need... to do things" kills me

glup shitto: Frank the shovel guy. i'm obsessed with him. I stole one of his shovels. Will there be consequences? Why is this his thing? I was so obsessed with this man that i remembered his weird ad from a three second bit for MONTHS and i still knew his name. God, I can't wait to see where he shows up again

poor little meow meow: I feel like this can't NOT be Tristan Fabian Alexander VanGaunt, a Lord of Sentall who is just a... sad and broken man. he's just kinda so sad and pathetic and also so compelling. I wanna see if wringing him out would fix him. i'm fascinated with him in many ways but also both Kallista and I would stan him through whatever he did, so he totally fits this

horse plinko: ooooh so many people would fit into a plinko machine... the OBVIOUS answer is Adran. I'd love to stick him in the plinko, watch him fall, observe what happens, and then do it again. I wanna be his Glados. I wanna make him plinko until he cannot plinko any more...and then try it again.

HOWEVER i think it would be HILARIOUS to plinko Tev, (Kallista would say Eva), or Envar. Like yes, let's make Tev have even more of a breakdown, and then make Envar lose his hat over and over. God that'd be so so fun.

eeby deeby: who will go to superhell today... the VanGaunts without question, they ruined two perfectly good children, both of them have anxiety, and also did not HELP the situation in Sentall. (Kallista would also send Eva). I'm also going to send Pelor, yes, that's right, the sun god is gonna go to superhell for not ASKING Eldon if he even wanted to be a champion of a god, like come on man, not cool