日本語の勉強はどう？

[dejan91]

yeh, but if your examiners are nice, they might let you move up to the front for the listening?
i'm lucky coz we only have 6 ppl in our jap class ^^

5 people in mine One thing I'm scared of is dodgy speakers. Gahhhhhhhhhhhh I don't wanna do this one!

Btw isn't Japanese scaled generously as is?

[IntoTheNewWorld]

wut boo I have 30 or so in my cohort =S and the room we're doing the exam in is HUGE, 3 rooms in one basically, with walls removed.

I swear when there's an important number/point/name the speakers accelerate their speaking speed on purpose, bastards.

Yes <3 government boosted scaling.

[dejan91]

Yes, they're bastards when it comes to that type of stuff! And also I hate it when you look up a word in the dictionary from reading and responding and it's not there. Makes me angry. I was just doing one, and I forgot what　びよういん was, and so I went to look it up and the dictionary only had　びょういん. Grrrrr. If I get ~70% and I'll be over the moon

[IntoTheNewWorld]

I think I hate names the most, omfg. Have you tried VCAA 2008? I swear whenever they say a name they say it SOOOOO FAASSTTT.

[dejan91]

Yeah ages ago but forgot lol. Names are confusing especially in dialogue. They're definitely a sly bunch. Like I hate when they do dates and times and they're the dodgy ones. And they ALWAYS do it.

[Fyrefly]

びよういん... it's like a hairdresser/beauty parlour thing, yeah?
I remember a dialogue where the girl was like "I can't put my kimono on by myself, so I go to the びよういん".

Gah... most of my friends had their last exam today... one was like 'what are you gonna do tonight?' (like, was inviting me to come with them to the city)
I'm like 'Uh.... I've got Jap on Monday still."
She laughed.
A lot.
-.-"

[dejan91]

びよういん... it's like a hairdresser/beauty parlour thing, yeah?
I remember a dialogue where the girl was like "I can't put my kimono on by myself, so I go to the びよういん".

Gah... most of my friends had their last exam today... one was like 'what are you gonna do tonight?' (like, was inviting me to come with them to the city)
I'm like 'Uh.... I've got Jap on Monday still."
She laughed.
A lot.
-.-"

Yeah hairdresser haha dw you're not the only one missing out on the fun... I feel your pain It's so frustrating haha but at the same time all this waiting and studying is gonna be so worth it walking out of that exam on Monday. I can't even imagine what the relief will be like

[dav132]

びよういん... it's like a hairdresser/beauty parlour thing, yeah?
I remember a dialogue where the girl was like "I can't put my kimono on by myself, so I go to the びよういん".

Gah... most of my friends had their last exam today... one was like 'what are you gonna do tonight?' (like, was inviting me to come with them to the city)
I'm like 'Uh.... I've got Jap on Monday still."
She laughed.
A lot.
-.-"

Yeah hairdresser haha dw you're not the only one missing out on the fun... I feel your pain It's so frustrating haha but at the same time all this waiting and studying is gonna be so worth it walking out of that exam on Monday. I can't even imagine what the relief will be like

i know tell me about it,
all the facebook status updates were like "IT"S ALL OVER!!",
and everyone after the chem exam were having parties that night,
and i was like, nooooo! ...got jap monday -.-"

[moshi]

hey guys - is an 'essay' text type the same an an 'article' text type? I'm fairly sure that it is (since I can't imagine essays needing more than a title/name), but it'd be nice to have some confirmation since I've forgotten!

[IntoTheNewWorld]

hey guys - is an 'essay' text type the same an an 'article' text type? I'm fairly sure that it is (since I can't imagine essays needing more than a title/name), but it'd be nice to have some confirmation since I've forgotten!

I imagine it is - this VCAA thingy only mentions article though, needing title/author/content

http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,13847.0.html

[*ryan777*]

In the listening section, when you have to answer in Japanese is it still acceptable to write numbers the normal way ie 123 or do we have to use kanji?
Ive been wondering about this for a while and figue i should find out before its too late

[IntoTheNewWorld]

In the listening section, when you have to answer in Japanese is it still acceptable to write numbers the normal way ie 123 or do we have to use kanji?
Ive been wondering about this for a while and figue i should find out before its too late

In the examiner's report they use both sometimes so I'm pretty sure you can write the normal way

[IntoTheNewWorld]

Does anyone know how strictly the ji count for the writing section is enforced...?

I mean, if you count all boxes (including empty boxes) you can only go 2 and half lines onto the second page before you reach 450 ji.

I heard they draw a line, but would they draw it including only the boxes you use or also include empty boxes =S

[moshi]

the limit's 500, I thought. my teacher said that they don't include your empty boxes, so i suppose if you do go over the line, they'll look at whether the stuff over the limit fits into the boxes that you've left over. he's pretty strict with us on the character limit, so i wouldn't try to flout that.

[IntoTheNewWorld]

the limit's 500, I thought. my teacher said that they don't include your empty boxes, so i suppose if you do go over the line, they'll look at whether the stuff over the limit fits into the boxes that you've left over. he's pretty strict with us on the character limit, so i wouldn't try to flout that.

hmm it is 500 >_> what was I thinking =S

I guess 500 would be okay then =]

EDIT: with letters there's all the crap at the end, how does that work towards the word count...?