Let me introduce my background first, for your reference: I am a non-university undergraduate, a non-language major, and my NMET English score is about 120. I am definitely not a genius in language. I just passed the Japanese N2 exam by myself as an ordinary person, so this article will focus on how to pass the exam by myself.
Foreword: About our goal
Our goal is to teach ourselves to pass Japanese N2 in three months, which is divided into three parts.
The time is less than three months, which is the necessary time for ordinary people to learn from scratch (language geniuses ignore it, and the great god even boasts that he has passed N2 without reading). You can estimate your laziness and extend it appropriately. The calculation method of the required time will be explained in detail later.
(2) The way is through self-study, that is, I don't rely on cram schools and formal lectures, but I can seize all available resources (speaking human words, I absolutely don't spend money in Bai Piao, I only spent 450 registration fee +50 yuan examination paper fee through Japanese N2, yes, I even used books from Bai Piao Library).
③ Replace N3 or N 1 with Japanese N2, because at present, the most popular recognition of Japanese is N 1 (a very powerful level of Japanese), followed by N2 (an elder who can understand Japanese) and n1/456554. So our goal is to directly test N2 in Japan, which is the most cost-effective method.
Choice is very important. After finding a firm direction, start to create miracles!
I. Preparation process
What do we need to prepare in order to pass the exam? We need to prepare a mood, test tools, and some time.
Let's assume that an ideal person Xiao Li is going to Japan ... Xiao Li is a robot who likes Japanese very much and wants to learn Japanese well. He won't get bored with his studies, and he doesn't need a rest. He will finish the task as planned every day, but he doesn't even know Japanese. How can he pass the Japanese N2 exam in three months?
Step 1: Now that you have set the goal of taking the N2 exam, do you plan to start studying tomorrow? ! ! !
From the moment you read this article, this war began!
For those who want to learn Japanese, only 10% will remember 50-tone pictures, and in the end, only 10% will successfully remember all 50-tone pictures, so the victory or defeat will be decided from the beginning.
So the first step that puzzles many Japanese learners is how to remember so many pentasyllables. I've watched a lot of video teaching, but it's useless when I see it. I can't remember, and I forget how to remember.
Here comes the point! ! ! How to remember so many pentatonic scales?
The solution is, forget it, forget it. Whether you write or not, you must move on!
What do you think I'll tell you? How to recite this song ぁぃぅぇぉ? I'll draw you a picture to help you remember it. Come on, have you seen so many video teaching? I told you ten thousand times, and the final result is that I remember, but you still don't remember. What should I do? Don't forget, I'm talking about self-study, I only teach you the method.
Where can I find Isuzu? There is a content under Baidu Encyclopedia that is a pseudonym source. Copy each pen name and the corresponding Chinese characters on a piece of paper and take it with you. Start reciting.
This is a time-limited task, and it will be finished in three days.
Is this possible? Don't forget, since you read this article, it means that you have to create a miracle to get rid of N2 in three months, so this is only a small step to create a miracle.
Second, the test tools
To pass this exam, you must know enough about it and then study according to the exam standards.
First of all, open Taobao, search Japanese N2 real questions over the years, find a white independent booklet, and buy a set immediately. Then, as for the teaching materials, don't ask me which one to recommend. What suits you is the best. This is a principle. If you are a student, you can earn a lot of money. You can go to the library and read every Japanese textbook one by one, just look for those that start with the pentatonic scale of Japanese, just flip through them, believe in yourself and find one that you like and looks interesting.
If you are not a student, and you can't just pick any textbooks, as a standard player, you don't know anything, and you can't modify the game configuration yourself, so you can only choose the most standard configuration yellow book and standard Japanese.
Everyone's Japanese is full of Japanese words, and it is impossible for beginners to understand it without the guidance of teachers. However, the content of telling the truth in standard Japanese is very old-fashioned and divorced from reality, but if you look for a tutor, he will probably recommend this because it won't make mistakes and save a lot of subsequent troubles. But what I'm talking about here is just a standard for choosing teaching materials. I must like it and have the motivation to read it.
1, listen
Now you can start preparing for listening. Open Netease Cloud Music on your mobile phone, search for Japanese reading aloud, just choose the first song and listen to it in the background. Earphones are always on. In addition to communicating with people, your ears should be full of Japanese. This is an important part of the crash, commonly known as ear grinding. It doesn't matter if you don't understand.
But there is a key misunderstanding here. Many people will think, can I listen to Japanese songs? No, my suggestion is to listen to reading aloud at normal speed, or short sentences with accelerated advertising words, because these are words that can be heard in life, and songs are artistically processed, which produce a lot of cadence and background interference and are not suitable for listening practice.
Listening is the most important thing in the whole exam!
Listening is the most important thing in the whole exam! !
Listening is the most important thing in the whole exam! ! !
Let's talk about the score division of Japanese exam:
Full score 180, divided into three parts: word grammar, reading and listening, with 60 points each. If any part does not reach 19, it will fail, and the total score needs to reach 90 to qualify. It means that you can't have obvious disadvantages and get as many points as possible in each module.
Step 2 read the article
N2 reading is not difficult for China people. You can rest assured that it can be improved through the accumulation of reading. Here is a positive trick and a strange trick. As the old saying goes, a soldier can win by making a surprise attack.
The correct way is to recite the text and read extracurricular books. The text is the part you will definitely have in the textbook, and you will be finished when you recite it. You can enhance your understanding of the article by reciting. After learning the textbook every day, you recite the text of that day, and today's work is finished today.
You can find some Japanese historical story books, Japanese essays, or download Hujiang Xiao D directly. Articles are updated every day, and there are many current affairs news such as Ishihara Satoshi's marriage and Trump infection. It looks interesting.
What's more, when reading Hujiang Elementary D, you can directly click on unfamiliar words to read the meaning. Don't hesitate to read them directly. What you need is to understand the article quickly and don't spend too much time on some words. In addition, you will remember the words when you read the meaning. If you read the meaning of the same word the second time, you will feel deja vu, the third time you will be impressed, and the fifth time you will remember the word, so just read more.
The above is the correct method, and many qualified teachers will be willing to tell you the method. The following is a very strange trick, a wild way that regular schools can't learn.
That is to go out and see what the Japanese say and write. As for the meaning of going out, you can go out physically or by magic, depending on your own conditions. Here, we only talk about magic going out, not teaching magic. If you want to learn magic, you must find a way.
Everyone has a chance to learn Japanese more or less. For example, an old animator wants to learn Japanese, for example, Suda Masaki Hao Shuai wants to learn Japanese, for example, Aragaki Yui is my wife who wants to learn Japanese, for example, posting to VTB wants to learn Japanese ... Well, now that the opportunity has come, just consider yourself their boyfriend/girlfriend. After paying attention to them, I carefully read every tweet and video, and I feel that these are for you after all.
If you are really a muggle and can't use magic, then turn on the beep. There is a virtual anchor zone for live broadcast, and Japanese anchors will always speak in Japanese. Being a listening radio station is also a good choice for you. After paying attention, you can see their tweets and words, which are very close to life. Although these terms will not appear in the N2 test, they can greatly improve your reading interest.
I need to say here, have anime and Japanese TV dramas helped me with N2?
The answer is definitely yes, but look at our goal. We didn't have much time to watch Japanese dramas and cartoons for three months. Time is precious and must be used in more critical places. If I have to watch it, I will give priority to: cooked meat with bilingual subtitles > raw meat without subtitles > Japanese drama > animation. Japanese drama is closer to life than animation, and most scenes on the stage are realistic, so the learning effect is better than animation.
3. Word grammar articles
Do you want to recite it? You must recite it. Will you spend a lot of time on it? You'd better not. The more you carry this thing, the less you can carry it. Don't you see how many students abandon the exam with Band 4 every day and recite it all the time? Memorizing words really takes time, but it's useless. So how to break the embarrassing situation that everyone says memorizing words is important but useless?
Just don't recite words by yourself. Do you think there is no word list except the back of the textbook? Do you remember how many words we memorized when we learned Chinese to speak and write? Then how do we remember so many words and keep creating all kinds of new words? I don't think anyone will buy a special online buzzword dictionary. No way, no way.
Yes, the method is in our hearts, just use it, so you just need to remember the words at the back of the textbook, and the rest of the vocabulary will be supplemented by reading, your conversation with Aidou and listening.
The method of each part is known, so our preparation has come to an end. Let's arrange this period of time and create a miracle beyond N2 in Japan within three months!
Third, time.
Our timetable needs to be calculated in stages backwards. Set aside the last month to brush the real questions and read the textbooks in the first two months.
How to get to the road of learning ahead?
First of all, you immediately bought real questions and textbooks from Taobao (or borrowed textbooks, Long live Bai Piao), prepared Hujiang Xiao D and Netease Cloud music on your mobile phone, and started listening training to sharpen your ears.
Then from now on, I only give myself three days to memorize all five tones, and I can start learning the textbook on the fourth day (it's too convenient to express everything in three days now, so don't make excuses to delay anyway, even if the book doesn't arrive, I can watch the video and learn the first lesson first). If you haven't finished learning Fifty Tones, hold it in your hand and read the text as a Little Tiger decryption card.
You have been listening to Japanese for three days, and you still can't understand what it is saying, but it's not a big problem.
There are quality requirements for our two-month study time. Because it is self-study, you don't have to think about learning like a teacher, and remember all the knowledge points. Those things cannot be quantified. It's easy for you to lose yourself when you study, so I'll help you quantify all your learning goals.
Japanese N2 requires mastering 12 verb variants, 200 grammars and more than 6,000 words. Don't be stupid enough to remember these things. You just need to study two classes a day for 60 days according to the textbook you choose, which is *** 120 classes in total. That's enough. Then check the syllabus and see what you haven't learned. For example, honorifics can't be learned.
How can I judge whether I have really learned this lesson? There are too many exercises later, so I won't write them. You must do two things. The first thing is to find the grammar knowledge mentioned in this lesson, that is, fixed sentence patterns and deformations, and memorize them, preferably by dictation. Then block the words with white paper. You look at Chinese and write Japanese silently on it. One more thing, recite the text, this should be recited every day, learn a lesson and recite a lesson.
You can feel these things yourself, so you know whether you have learned them or not. Even if you are too tired to recite it today, don't look back. Leave more time for yourself the next day, solve the task of the day first, and then go back to make up the task of the previous day.
Never stop. Once you stop, it's hard to start again. You can rest, but make sure that even if you rest, you just learn to relax less, not just watch.
After studying for a week or so, you can speak some complete words. Congratulations on this exciting moment. You can start reading after class, but you still can't understand the long article at all. You can read some short sentences, such as how to say happy birthday, how to say happy new year, what my husband/wife said today, and what I can reply to him with my lifelong study. It is no problem to finish it with the help of a translator.
In the second week, you learned more and knew more words. You have enough words and phrases to reserve. Start creating barriers to your native language environment.
In the third week, you can write a small composition for primary school students, which is a great progress. Remember to save your first article.
In the fourth week, if you persist, you will have developed your own study habits. Your study progress may be different from what I described. This is normal. As long as the progress of the big stage is consistent, learning this thing is always orderly. If you are slow, don't be discouraged. Adjust your time and status, and make up later. If you make progress faster than I said, congratulations. I hope you won't be complacent about learning from rabbits in the tortoise-hare race. It's a long way to go, Xiu Yuan, and there is no light load. Our goal is not over yet.
After the first month, take out the real questions we bought and write a set. Don't give yourself time, just finish them.
In the second month, after knowing your own gap, study harder. Actually, you don't have to worry at all. 120 hours of study is enough for you to pass the exam, but you can only find your own shortcomings through periodic exam summary, otherwise you will get lost in continuous learning.
Because the time is approaching and the knowledge density is increasing, I will feel faster in the second month. Remember to brush the real questions again after the second month. I believe you will face this set of papers with more confidence.
Maybe the result is still terrible, but it doesn't matter what it is. Just rest for three days and keep reading and listening to lectures every day.
Have a good rest, and then the last month of intensive training in hell.
In the last month, brush the real questions, brush the real questions, brush the real questions, there is only one thing. We need to have a goal when we do the problem. Our goal is to pass N2, so only half the correct rate is enough? No! If you just want to pass the exam, set your goal at 1 10. If you want to be as high as possible, set the goal at 150, and let yourself jump to achieve this goal when practicing.
Fourth, the moment to witness the miracle-the final exam
The test paper should be written one week before the exam. You should finish all the papers in the last week, and you should finish almost all the courses. Think about this time. You learned Japanese from scratch, memorized 50 tones, understood the article, even talked with idols, and finally went to the examination room. You can understand the pain of reciting the text and the incomprehension and ridicule of others along the way.
Besides listening to real questions (not necessarily stories) and reading Japanese articles all the time, you can also do some other things, such as joining a subtitle group and trying to help with translation. For example, after your husband/wife sends Weibo, you can explain the content to other people who don't understand, then read the wrong questions, go to the examination room early and spend the last week leisurely.
Go to the examination room early for the final exam and give yourself enough time to get familiar with it. On the way, you can say everything you see with your words. Now you just have to tell yourself that you are ready.
Looking forward to your good news!
5. Postscript-something I want to say about this exam.
N2 is a watershed in Japanese learning. In many places, it is required to recruit at least N2 people, but this does not mean that N2 people are enough. This just means that with N2 certificate, at least you can teach yourself. The passing rate of N2 in Japanese is about 40% every year, which is not low at all, but it can still be recognized, because it takes at least three months to effectively learn N2 in Japanese. This is the certificate of Japanese use, which shows that you are qualified to use Japanese.
But you know what? The introduction of Japanese is N 1, because Japanese is a typical language with easy entry and increasingly difficult follow-up, and all kinds of verb variants, honorifics, simplified words, all kinds of network buzzwords are equally difficult in Chinese. Don't think that you can speak Japanese after N2. This road is far from enough.
Moreover, if I crash Japanese N2 according to my method, I will probably get it, but the consequence is that I learn it too fast and haven't laid a solid foundation yet. At this time, the farther you go, the more difficult it is. This is also the dilemma I am facing in Japanese learning at present, because all my N2 skills are listening and reading, and learning a language requires listening, speaking, reading and writing. Although what I said later was made up by volunteering for Japanese students at school, I still need a lot of time to practice writing this puzzle, so passing this exam does not mean the end, but a new beginning.
Writing this article is just to share my own learning experience, and there are inevitably omissions in the method. Thank you for your suggestions.
After reading it, you can leave your wish in the comment area, and then come back to recommend this article to friends who want to pass Japanese N2 quickly. Finally, I hope my learning method can help more Japanese learners. Let's work together to create more and more N2 miracles in three months!
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