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Furbob:
Maybe its my Japanese teacher (native) that haunts me a bit since she asks me a question at normal talking pace and I just scramble in my head about how to answer for a bit, which gives that awkward pause before I actually answer.Though sometimes she likes to throw in vocab that we haven't learnt to test me, but if I dont know what she says it puts me down a bit ._."

well thats good to know that you passed the placement with 1/2 skills o_o" at the moment I have crammed 3/4 grammar but I'll probably revise over it (I finished the yr 12 book - kookoo seikatsu in less than a month since I got my hands on a free copy off a friend). 

Is the listening part of the placement test hard? like VCE exam standard?
LOL I might be driving you up the wall with all these questions XD

Oh, did not-knowing if you got in or not affect your subject selecting for yr 12 since you dont get results until Jan (is it?)
since in my scenario if I dont get in jap then I'll have to pick up a subject at school but we have transition before the year ends :S unless you didnt have this problem

Fyrefly:

--- Quote from: RavenclawNerd on May 30, 2010, 08:00:34 pm ---@Fyrefly Kurata-sensei and Kirisawa-sensei. Do you know them?

--- End quote ---

I know Kurata-sensei - she was the lecturer and unit coordinator for Jap 2 last year, as well as my tutor.

RavenclawNerd:
It's good to be tested! Although I'm pretty sure its not good that she puts you down...
You still have a whole year ahead of you to practice and learn! You're already doing better then I was... We cant really get ahead at my school (which was quite frustrating), so i didnt even look at ANY year 12 grammar until like, maybe end of november...

the listening part was part of the conversation with the teacher, so i dont know if you're comparing it to the speaking exam at the end of 3/4, or the listening exam? I'd say understanding it was much easier then the year 12 listening things ive done...

Not knowing whether or not i got in was a little annoying (you're right, we didnt find out until almost the end of January), but I already knew what subjects I was going to do... I'm doing 5 3/4 subjects this year (plus uni jap) But my friend who is also doing uni jap with me is only doing 4 unit 3/4 subjects (he dropped one at the start of the year when he found out that he got into uni jap)
And get used to cramming grammar... lol. This year we have learnt about 65 grammar patterns (but some of them are VCE ones, which makes it easier)

I dont mind the questions, it's making me feel very knowledgable! I wish I'd asked something these sorts of questions last year, instead of just turning up and being completely lost.

@Fyrefly thats really cool! small world huh? She's a pretty good teacher i think...

Furbob:
are the questions she asks quite basic like 趣味（しゅみ）は何ですか？ご家族は何人ですか？... etc
is it in a formal situation like being assessed from what you say or just an indicator to see if you can understand/speak some Japanese?

yeah it gets quite frustrating to feeling very limited to what we're learning in class :\
haha whats more frustrating is that today we had our Japanese Unit 1 exam and in the listening section it was about 七五三 and one of the questions was to explain what "candy" was mentioned which was ちとせあめ... that I totally forgot about o_o" and one part was writing down the name of a friend but I couldn't distinguish if it was ミリーさん or something totally different.

Other than that everything else was alright but its probably my writing that could have errors (usually particles or not getting the crammed-3/4 grammar correct). What really sucks is I could use the basic grammar we've learnt but my essay would sound too simple but it'd be correct while on the other hand the more detailed my grammar is, the more prone to mistakes I am :T now im feeling a bit paranoid since the exam marks will be on our reports... which will go to Monash when they assess it *le gasp*

RavenclawNerd:
hmmm... i think she did ask about hobbies... and what i liked to do on the weekend and stuff. We spoke a little about movies i'd seen recently (because avatar had just come out, and she really liked it)... and just stuff along those lines. I'm fairly certain she didnt ask anything about family...
It wasnt formal... but i think it MAY have been recorded (my memory is shocking isnt it?)...

I'm sure you did awesome on the exam!
Particles are stupid. I really dont like them.
I know what you mean by the essay though... whenever i write one, I always feel confident about it, then i'm like 'ohh no... that grammar pattern was too risky, i know i screwed it up!' and then i stress until we get the results back, but usually, it turns out fine.
Normally i write too much... which sucks. for our last sac, the limit was 3/4 of a page, and i wrote almost a page... and i hated having to cut it off there!

I had soo much trouble sending my reports and stuff off to monash! i left it with a teacher, who told me she would do it all for me, but i never got a confirmation email! so the day before it was due (i couldnt get there sooner), i went back to school to ask her about it, and she wasnt even there, and the form was still sitting on her desk! but she'd sent in both of my friends forms already (one is also doing uni jap, and the other is doing maths at melbourne). i was a little annoyed, but they got there in the end...

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