LCの日本語 (Leaving Cert Japanese).

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こんばんは！

How's everybody set for Japanese?

Last day.. Last thing.. I only have too half days before it too.

Should be a soft-enough exam, though my oral really fecked me over.

What grades are everybody else hoping for? I was going for an A1/A2, but now I'll be happy with a B2. I'll do well on the test, it's just that oral...

magicianz

You should be grand, wasnt it like 33.6% A1's last year? >.> Damn smart people taking japanese :P

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hehe, yeah it was. Last year's paper was piss easy though

I'm pretty confident in getting an A in the written section all the same.. But my overall grade sure as hell won't be an A :pac:

Nagikami

But if last year's paper was easy shouldn't that be good sign for us? Maybe they're making it easier Probably not though just my desperation showing =D

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Nagikami wrote: »

But if last year's paper was easy shouldn't that be good sign for us? Maybe they're making it easier Probably not though just my desperation showing =D

Well it's true that they have been getting progressively easier since 2006.. But my Japanese teacher (who wrote the book ) said last year's was ridiculously easy and we'll more than likely be getting a harder one this year.

Nagikami

Ah You're in Ursula's class She was my oral examiner which was slightly awkward as I was the only one in the school doing it But anyways seeing as she wrote the book I'd say she has a fair idea of what's going on So back to the study room for me... くそ。。。 D=

ruadhan

Yeah I'm doing it too. I have thursday free beforehand so I'll study then i guess. Oral was grand, can't really tell though how it was. I'm hoping for an A and it's quite an easy exam really so I think I should be able to get it.. The aural and comprehensions are usually ridiculously nice so fingers crossed anyway.

Jaafa

Em anyone here called Sinead? :P

sarah.

There are so many A's in Japanese because out of the few hundred people that do it a fairly high percentage of them are from Japan!

Nagikami

sarah. wrote: »

There are so many A's in Japanese because out of the few hundred people that do it a fairly high percentage of them are from Japan!

Well that's a huge bummer

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sarah. wrote: »

There are so many A's in Japanese because out of the few hundred people that do it a fairly high percentage of them are from Japan!

Source of that information please.

cellery

I really wanted an A1 but my oral really didn't go well.. I had 3 orals & a music practical in the space of 10 days so I was beat by the time I got to Japanese =\
provided they dont put anything too sneaky on for the compositions I think it'll be okay..
Having said that there have been some papers with really hard sections :S the comprehension about cake & parfait for example.....



Guys I'm scared :L

Nagikami

cellery wrote: »

I had 3 orals & a music practical in the space of 10 days

I see your 3 orals and raise you an oral (but minus the music practical) =D

Sentid

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Well it's true that they have been getting progressively easier since 2006.. But my Japanese teacher (who wrote the book ) said last year's was ridiculously easy and we'll more than likely be getting a harder one this year.

Wher can I get the book?? Really want to learn Japanese, brilliant for points in the leaving and actually useful afterwards :-D

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Sentid wrote: »

Wher can I get the book?? Really want to learn Japanese, brilliant for points in the leaving and actually useful afterwards :-D

http://www.authentik.ie/books/japanese-books/Nihongo-Kantan/

Thats the only place you can buy it

SDTimeout

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Source of that information please.

I'd say it's plausible. Since I've been in my school there's been about 10 Japanese students who come for the leaving cert. There were 3 last year and 1 in my year this year.

Sentid

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http://www.authentik.ie/books/japanese-books/Nihongo-Kantan/

Thats the only place you can buy it

Does this book cover the Leaving Cert course???

cellery

Nagikami wrote: »

I see your 3 orals and raise you an oral (but minus the music practical) =D

4 orals?? What languages do you do?
I'm impressed :P

cellery

Are any of you guys thinking of studying Japanese in college? Both DCU & UL have courses with Japanese..
I'm thinking about business & Japanese in DCU, but the course has changed so there's no knowing what the points will be this year..

sarah.

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Source of that information please.

Ms.Zimmermann if I remember correctly.

Nagikami

cellery wrote: »

4 orals?? What languages do you do?
I'm impressed :P

Why, thank you =D I do French, German, Irish and Japanese

cellery wrote: »

Are any of you guys thinking of studying Japanese in college? Both DCU & UL have courses with Japanese..

I want to do Language and Intercultural Studies - Applied in DCU Intending on doing French and Japanese

cellery

Nagikami wrote: »

I want to do Language and Intercultural Studies - Applied in DCU Intending on doing French and Japanese

I'd love to do that course but my parents don't want me to do only languages =\ ...so business & Japanese is a reasonable second choice

Nagikami

cellery wrote: »

...so business & Japanese is a reasonable second choice

Business? Reasonable? NEVER!!!!! Sorry, I just hate business with a passion...

sarah.

cellery wrote: »

I'd love to do that course but my parents don't want me to do only languages =\ ...so business & Japanese is a reasonable second choice

I think if you really want to do languages you should! Then again if you have a like for Business that's perfectly grand as well!

ruadhan

What's everyone doing for last minute study today/tomorrow morning.. I guess I'll go over kanji and try o learn lots of vocab cos I've forgotten everything since I last thought about Japanese like two months ago... I think I'll practice a listening paper as well and go over grammar and stuff.. Actually this is seeming like a lit of stuff now! Have to make sure I don't mix up any of my katakana either!! Ahh, maybe I houl start working now.

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Just got home from my Ag Science exam.. Going to get something to eat and then hit the books. One more day

cellery

Just home after my music exam. I'm wrecked & I have the worst headache (anyone else doing music should understand that haha) but I'm all ready to cram Japanese like crazy now!
What are you guys focusing most on?

Sader

What level are all you guys taking?
Im self teaching so i just threw down ordinary was probably a bad idea sense the papers
seem to be nearly the same. . .

Even if you toke ordinary for oral can you up to higher for writen? oral kinda screwed me though

cellery

Sader wrote: »

What level are all you guys taking?
Im self teaching so i just threw down ordinary was probably a bad idea sense the papers
seem to be nearly the same. . .

Even if you toke ordinary for oral can you up to higher for writen? oral kinda screwed me though

I'm doing honours. You can change from honours to pass on the day so I'd say you can do it the other way around too?
You should check with someone beforehand though..

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The oral isn't higher or ordinary, it's common level.

But do ask the principle or something first..

LifesaverNiall

oral ****ed me over big time..
i had your one who wrote the book.. but the book is realy bad or so says my teacher..
was aiming for an A in japanese.. with the oral i think i could maybe scrap a A2..
havnt touched anything in a month and tried reading some japanese there.. didnt go very well..
sure feck it.. last exam!

cellery

Here's to hoping that the entire paper is magically about food or hobbies or something easy peasy like that!


- study today has just been a shocking reminder that I haven't done any Japanese in about a month :P

DessieMG

Surely there are 33% of candidates getting A's because they are japanese in the first place?

Sader

DessieMG wrote: »

Surely there are 33% of candidates getting A's because they are japanese in the first place?

True but the test isn't exactly the hardest either.

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DessieMG wrote: »

Surely there are 33% of candidates getting A's because they are japanese in the first place?

Unless the SEC want to release statistics like that.. We have no way of knowing. But the exam is piss easy.

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LifesaverNiall wrote: »

oral ****ed me over big time..
i had your one who wrote the book.. but the book is realy bad or so says my teacher..
was aiming for an A in japanese.. with the oral i think i could maybe scrap a A2..
havnt touched anything in a month and tried reading some japanese there.. didnt go very well..
sure feck it.. last exam!

She's my teacher

The oral didn't go great for me either I think..

I watched an アニメ just there to practice (or at least that's what I'm telling myself it was for) and it was pretty damn good

LifesaverNiall

she was pretty nice.. but she was too god damn quiet for my oral.. my teacher said it to her after and she said she'd take it into considersation when marking me afterwards.. like i kept having to say sumimasen but only because i couldnt hear her
what school does she teach in? just out of curiosity

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She teaches in the Loretto in Wexford.. But I get grind from her on the weekends. One of two people actually

ilikemangoes

Lol at that percentage remark. How many students are sitting Japanese? 1000 across the country? I don't believe there are about 300 japanese leaving cert in Ireland... Japanese is an easy leaving cert subject, JLPT N5 standard. If you like the language (I studied it by myself for 4 years before I had a teacher for LC), it's not that hard to get an A1.

That being said...

My orals went HORRIBLE due to way it was examined (complained already obvs - the examiner did not time my preparation and even corrected me during the exam... argh) and partly because I was really nervous (yeah, good excuse for being ****e). Strangely enough, French which I speak far worse went almost too smooth.

Anyway, I need to ace this one. Been really worried about the tape, the quality of school speakers is horrible, I didn't even get entire sections in French tape which generally was found easy... we'll see, I am the only one doing it so maybe I would be allowed to use headphones? That would be almost too beautiful. I just hope the tape won't be as bad as it was in 2006... if you didn't do this one, try it, overall paper was quite tough that year.

I also hope I will do good essays, I only wonder how they are really marked because the marking scheme is so vague... Do you have some sample essays maybe? Do you have some rules for using genkou youshi? (I know the basics, but just like anything Japanese-related it probably has some silly intricacies) I had a really nice jap teacher ( ;( omg past tense), but she never graded the essays... and I can see why, It seems quite tough.

Hopefully the culture related question will be nice and easy... I hate those. They seem like total "ビ　エス　セクシオン” And I'm never sure what to exactly write about there. And It was always hard to compare the differences and similarities between cultures, even for orals.

So...

みなさん、がんばって！　

(BTW, 誰か日本語で話したいですか。）

LifesaverNiall

no way.. how much do u pay for grinds?.. just in case i have to repeat next year

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LifesaverNiall wrote: »

no way.. how much do u pay for grinds?.. just in case i have to repeat next year

€40 per hour for one-on-one and then when the two of us went to the same class, it was €25 each, which isn't bad.

LifesaverNiall

and did u do that once a week yea?..
pretty handy money for herself.. wouldnt mind being a japanese teacher

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Yup, once per week
hehe, she's a good teacher though.

I'm off to sleep, がんばって for tomorrow everybody

Sader

i the only one doing an all nighter :P?

Nagikami

I just got up 20 minutes ago in the hopes of actually knowing something for the Japanese exam (also my applied maths exam D=) Last day Woohoo!!!!!!

cellery

Yay last minute study time guys!
I can't believe we finally finish today it's been dragged out so long

Sader

wow bad time for me to forget like 1/2 the kanji >_>

Anyway good luck everyone

ilikemangoes

What do you think of it? I thought it was fair, it wasn't too easy, but it wasn't hard, either.

I was completely thrown off by the question on Rain and 大人気 - what was that about? The question about him,where there was no information on him whatsoever was weird. What did you answer? Maybe I didn't get it entirely or skipped something?

Also, wasn't there an extra particle 'no" in the question where we were supposed to put a correct verb form? It looked like a mistake...

I am worried about essays, because it looked really messy and I used really weird grammar I wasn't sure of (bad idea) - we will see. I don't think I got an A1, that's for sure.

T2daK

radiation

Sader

so am i the only one who didnt have enough wrote for the diary and wrote

PEROPEROPEROPEROPEROPEROPEROPEROPEROPEROPEROPEROPEROPERO

ruadhan

Was tough enough I thought. Definitely harder than I was expecting but still though not too bad. Still have my fingers crossed for an A1