VCE Japanese SL 2011 Roll Call

[IntoTheNewWorld]

Post here if you're doing Japanese SL in 2011

I'm bored so I'll compile a list of those doing Japanese SL this year in this post right here. Some information you could possibly include in your post coulddd bee

• Study score aims
• Why you're studying Japanese/Why you think Japanese is an awesome language
• What you find the most annoying/difficult in Japanese

List of students doing VCE Japanese SL in 2011

swarley
AndyLedHead
Zien
Steph243
myheaven
Furbob

[Greatness]

Yes i am
-37+ raw
-Ever since learning Jap in year 7 i thought it would be cool to learn another language and im half decent at it
-I dont think there is anything in particular that i find annoying or hard

[Tobias Funke]

Aiming for 40 raw
I've been learning Japanese since grade 4, but for those first three years it was really all basic, I think what drove me to do Japanese in Vce was going on exchange there for two months, and I havent looked back, leaving in three days
An aspect which I find challenging still is engaging in a proper conversation

[Zien]

Likewise, I am doing Japanese SL next year too.  ^^

Aim: 40 Raw

Why: I was somewhat of an avid anime-viewer back in the day (i.e. a few years ago) and that really got me interested in the language. Plus, I had studied French, Latin and German previously in my old school prior to Year 9 and decided to do a LOTE I had not yet studied before. So far, it has been an amazing 3 years of Japanese learning.

Difficult: Kanji, most definitely. I have a pretty strong command over vocabulary, I'm pretty comfortable with a wide range of grammar but I am next to hopeless at Kanji. >.> Once I use it a fair bit I know it pretty well but it's actually learning the Kanji that's the most difficult for me.

As you can probably tell, I'm a new user to the forum but I hope to be active next year and in the years to come.

[IntoTheNewWorld]

Likewise, I am doing Japanese SL next year too.  ^^

Aim: 40 Raw

Why: I was somewhat of an avid anime-viewer back in the day (i.e. a few years ago) and that really got me interested in the language. Plus, I had studied French, Latin and German previously in my old school prior to Year 9 and decided to do a LOTE I had not yet studied before. So far, it has been an amazing 3 years of Japanese learning.

Difficult: Kanji, most definitely. I have a pretty strong command over vocabulary, I'm pretty comfortable with a wide range of grammar but I am next to hopeless at Kanji. >.> Once I use it a fair bit I know it pretty well but it's actually learning the Kanji that's the most difficult for me.

As you can probably tell, I'm a new user to the forum but I hope to be active next year and in the years to come.

yay you're just like me (started jap in year 9 after doing French, chose to learn jap due to anime, good at grammar suck at kanji)

[Cappuccinos]

Oooh Me too:)

Study Score Aim:
Anything over 35 would be pretty awesome. But over 40 would be like amazing! 
So I guess my aim is 40, But I'd be happy with anything over 35? lol (P.S How hard is it to get over a 40?)

Why I am learning Japanese:
-Been studying Jap since like Yr 7 (Well technically Grade 4, but I don't think the stuff we did counts as 'studying', more like playing shop keeper & jan ken pon ><) So why not continue?
-Its nice to know a language
-I'd like to visit Japan one day
-Get good grades 

Annoying/hard thing about japanese:
Well not really about Japanese but I find it annoying having to learning the plain form first, then figuring out the polite form. I reckon its so much easier to do it vice-versa. Damn you Wakatta! Lol  But yeah Japanese is cool (Y)

[Zien]

yay you're just like me (started jap in year 9 after doing French, chose to learn jap due to anime, good at grammar suck at kanji)

If only I am as good and consistent as you at it. XD

Oooh Me too:)

Study Score Aim:
Anything over 35 would be pretty awesome. But over 40 would be like amazing! 
So I guess my aim is 40, But I'd be happy with anything over 35? lol (P.S How hard is it to get over a 40?)

Why I am learning Japanese:
-Been studying Jap since like Yr 7 (Well technically Grade 4, but I don't think the stuff we did counts as 'studying', more like playing shop keeper & jan ken pon ><) So why not continue?
-Its nice to know a language
-I'd like to visit Japan one day
-Get good grades 

Annoying/hard thing about japanese:
Well not really about Japanese but I find it annoying having to learning the plain form first, then figuring out the polite form. I reckon its so much easier to do it vice-versa. Damn you Wakatta! Lol  But yeah Japanese is cool (Y)

As long as you work hard and consistently throughout the year, you'll get there to 40 and above (or so I hear from tonnes of people ).  Just get in some solid hours in preparation for your general conversation part of the oral exam these holidays to take some time off the middle of the year that could be invested into other subjects.~ That's what I'm doing at least.. after I finish Chem. XD

We use the Obentou/Koukou Seikatsu combo at our school (except I think Obentou is out of print now..) and we learnt polite --> plain form. Ah well, as long as you know it for when it matters next year.

[Greatness]

Yeah we learnt polite then plain. Only learnt plain end of last year i think :/
Oh 1 thing i hate is all the conjugations of polite/plain past negative, present negative etc of verbs and adjectives xD

[myheaven]

Aiming for a 45 raw, but would still be really happy with anything 40+
Been studying jap since year 9, been interested in jap since watching Evangelion when I was about 3 or 4 years old aha!
I love picking up new grammar and sentence structures because it helps me express myself in writing and speaking.
I hate kanji .____.

Oh, and I have a habit to either use yankee japanese or teenage girl japanese >_> (damn dramas!)

[Furbob]

-aiming for 35+ raw
-Learning Japanese since my mum didnt teach my Cantonese and I must miss the void for my lack of not knowing an asian language. Oh and anime influence lulz.
-Using the particles 　は and　が

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oh and I have been to Hiroshima, Tokyo and Oogaki (countryside Japan) and I'd like to meet my penfriend one day too

[IntoTheNewWorld]

Aiming for a 45 raw, but would still be really happy with anything 40+
Been studying jap since year 9, been interested in jap since watching Evangelion when I was about 3 or 4 years old aha!
I love picking up new grammar and sentence structures because it helps me express myself in writing and speaking.
I hate kanji .____.

Oh, and I have a habit to either use yankee japanese or teenage girl japanese >_> (damn dramas!)

Is this who I think it is...?

[Greatness]

Seems as though we have a decent amount of Japanese SL students next year!!

Hoorah Good luck all!!!

[myheaven]

Aiming for a 45 raw, but would still be really happy with anything 40+
Been studying jap since year 9, been interested in jap since watching Evangelion when I was about 3 or 4 years old aha!
I love picking up new grammar and sentence structures because it helps me express myself in writing and speaking.
I hate kanji .____.

Oh, and I have a habit to either use yankee japanese or teenage girl japanese >_> (damn dramas!)

Is this who I think it is...?

atarimaejan~!

[Zien]

Has anyone heard the listening section of the 2010 Japanese SL exam yet? My teacher was raging about it in class, going on about how easy it was, unfair to a certain group of students etc. XD He let us hear it as well and it was easier than most Year 11 standard ones, I'd reckon.

I'm guessing that won't happen next year. ;p

[Greatness]

Yeeep my jap teacher said that this years Jap exam was easy overall...