The following is a suggested study plan for the N3, JLPT Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
Things to consider:
- Quiet place to study
- Study every day
- Computer and Internet connection
- Curiosity to learn (link your study always to what you like about Japan)
- Patience (when you can't remember things)
- Don't overload (take a break and get some fresh air)
Study Plan
- Study test instructions (check old tests)
- Basic Japanese - time, weather, dates, family, relationships, place names in Japan, prefectures, location, position, travel, leisure, sports, animals, plants, foods, etc
- Review basic grammar, tenses, forms, sentences patterns, verbs, conjugations.
- If you have done level three on the old test look over your old notes before you start.
- Set up an online flashcard system - for example: Anki
- Set up flashcards for a range of topics, for example: adjectives, na adjectives, i adjectives, suru verbs, on yomi kanji, kun yomi kanji, adverbs, sentence patterns by verb conjugation
- Practice getting your reading speed up by doing old tests, start slowly and then set your self set times with a kitchen timer.
- Study everyday if you stop or delay you will forget, Japanese is a language that needs daily attention.
- Think in layers, vocab, grammar, sentence patterns, topics, put your learning into context. If you study in the morning try using the new words you studied in the afternoon.Either typing a blog entry in Japanese, talking to a Japanese friend or another friend studying Japanese, talk to make the learning real.
- Make notes of things you don't understand and get them explained by a teacher, study partner or online forum question.
- Study N3 as if it is N2, that is study more kanji, more grammar, more vocab and expect surprise on test day when you open that test.
- At the end of each study session always review your new vocabulary, talk them into a cassette or into an mp3 player. You have seen the words but you need to make them real.
- Study a wide range of things, read manga and self translate with a dictionary, read one article from a Japanese news site and dissect it, study using a set textbook, review old study notes, practice new sentences with a study partner, call a Japanese friend on the phone, blog in Japanese on your favourite topic. Watch Japanese movies and take notes, listen to Japanese radio on the Internet NHK and take notes of new words. Watch videos on You Tube that teach Japanese or watch Japanese television commercials.Variety is the spice of life.
- record on paper all new words, sentences, kanji, grammar, giseigo, katakana that you learn so you have a study record.Review it at the end of each session and the start of the next one, have a friend quiz you using it. The key is to get the new information in some how!
- Borrow Japanese textbooks from your library and mine them for new words, grammar, kanji, sentence patterns, etc.
- Study official test guides and mine them. Get a Japanese friend to read sentences from your study guides and you try to answer them by speaking or writing the answer in a set time.
- Practice old tests, practice reading, practice, answering and most of all practice on completing them within time. Start with old level 4 tests to get your confidence, then old level 3 tests and then when your ready try old level 2 tests to a set time and then translate old level 2 tests with in a set time and mine them for words, kanji and grammar
you may also find these study guides useful
N3 JLPT - Study Guides available from Amazon Japan
1. "Japanese Language Proficiency Test N3 [knowledge of language comprehension] pick out issues and measures"
Title in Japanese
"日本語能力試験N3[読解・言語知識]対策問題&要点整理"
Book Details - English
Product Description
About content
July 2010, revised from the new test is started month later, four from grade one to four of the five categories and N1 ~ N5 classification test.
This book is newly N3 (the current level of between two and three grade-level) and target candidates, new tests aim "ability to perform tasks" "communication skills" knowledge "language" that the measure is written.
Read the training can be expected to pile on the practice exam problems New 測Remasu language knowledge and reading skills by simulating the problem.
Content ( "BOOK" from the database)
Reading lessons and language knowledge (grammar, vocabulary) to the summary! Knowledge of language (grammar, vocabulary), with problems in reading comprehension practice.
Product Details
* Hardcover: 164 pages
* Publisher: Japan Management Association Management Center (2010/1/22)
* Language: Japanese
* ISBN-10: 4820746227
* ISBN-13: 978-4820746225
* Release Date: 2010/1/22
* Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
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* Amazon.co.jp Sales Rank: # 4,079 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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2. "Learn Japanese grammar from an ear training exam N3 (Paperback)Riko by Andou Sakai (Author), Imakawa Kazu (Author)"
Japanese Title:
耳から覚える日本語能力試験文法トレーニングN3 (単行本)
by 安藤 栄里子 (著), 今川 和 (著)
Product Description
Publisher / content from the author about
Japanese Language Proficiency Test N3 cover features, ease → ordered by difficulty. Sentence presents a wide range of situations considered closely related vocabulary words and their functions. Journal many problems remembering to check whether the form (762 questions total number of problems). Issues that address comprehensive study grammar Journal min 3 times.Content ( "BOOK" from the database)
Understand the meaning of the sentence patterns connected to the appropriate sentence. Ask to see written confirmation repeated. Practiced in another power-up drill pattern! A lot of practice to the same grammar in a different form. So to score steadily in the study.
Product Details
* Hardcover: 127 pages
* Publisher: ALC (2010/03)
* ISBN-10: 475741854X
* ISBN-13: 978-4757418547
* Release Date: 2010/03
* Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches
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* Amazon.co.jp Sales Rank: # 2,603 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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3."Japanese Language Proficiency Test measures a standard text N2/N3 Grammar (Paperback)by Kouda Yoshiko (Author), Setsu Watanabe (Author), Kumiko Fukaya (Author)"
Japanese Title:
日本語能力試験 N2/N3文法対策標準テキスト (単行本)
by 行田 悦子 (著), 渡辺 摂 (著), 深谷 久美子 (著)
Product Description
Content
Layout for easy viewing. Into the red seats. The end of each term is "reviewing issues" section at the end of the "Test Summary". At the end of this overall problem, a new study new problems.
Author bio
Kouda Yoshiko
Start a Japanese language teacher since 1988. Japanese language schools, universities, companies, NPO aside for teaching Japanese to foreign groups, also involved in training of Japanese teachers. Recent years has also focused on Japanese language education for business people. Currently, Japanese Lecturer, Seikei University Center for International Education, Lecturer in Japanese companies. Japanese education proficiency test pass qualification ACTFL OPI tester
Hukaya Kumiko
Start a Japanese language teacher since 1985. Teach the Japanese language for foreigners in Japanese schools and the University College of volunteer organizations. Today, whilst working full-time lecturer in Japanese, Seikei University Center for International Education, worked in Japanese language teacher training courses in literature minor. Japanese education proficiency test pass qualification ACTFL OPI tester
Setsu Watanabe
Start a Japanese language teacher since 1983. Senior Lecturer, Japanese Language School, after a teacher training course, now, Japanese Lecturer, Seikei University Center for International Education. Japanese education proficiency test pass qualification ACTFL OPI Tester
Product Details
* Hardcover: 167 pages
* Publisher: Hidekazu system (2010/03)
* ISBN-10: 4798025534
* ISBN-13: 978-4798025537
* Release Date: 2010/03
* Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches
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* Amazon.co.jp Sales Rank: # 23,226 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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