21st November Update

On November 21, 2020 By italkyoutalkIn Chinese, French, Japanese, Language Diary, SpanishLeave a comment

My cosmetics exam is next week, so I’ve been focussing on that. I still have had time to read a Matsumoto Seicho novel, and keep my French study going on Duolingo. I had a streak of 80 days, but then got really busy and lost it.

I also decided to take the French a bit slower, and focus each week on a verb tense. I was getting confused with all the tenses – I was trying to memorise too much at once. I’m doing the imperfect tense this week.

I still listen to my HSK vocabulary CDs in the car every day, but that is all I’ve done as far as Chinese is concerned. Once the exam is over next Sunday, I’m going to get back onto my HSK 3 textbooks.

Spanish has been placed on the back burner – I’m not due to study it for another three years anyway, so I’m not too concerned about that. It’s more important for me to get back to doing more French and Chinese as I have exams in them next year!

7th November 2020 – Japanese

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I’ve been working on some practice tests for the cosmetics exam. Some I pass, some I just miss. I am also more than halfway through a murder mystery novel, and keeping up with doing a Kanji Kentei lesson a day and learning a few new idioms.

5th November 2020 – Japanese

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I have been focusing on study for the cosmetics exam at the end of November, but I felt like reading a novel, so I bought a murder mystery by Matsumoto Seicho. I read it before I go to sleep. I’m still keeping up with my Kanji Kentei study and my idioms, but I’ll be glad when the exam is over so I can start studying my other languages again.

1st November 2020 – Japanese

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I have two cosmetics-related tests in Japanese at the end of this month and at the beginning of next month, so I’m going to focus on those in November. I’m also going to try to continue my Kanji Kentei lessons and idioms, but they won’t be my focus.

28th October 2020 – Japanese

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I did a few hours of my pharmacology exam book, and did two units from my Kanji Kentei book and a few pages of idioms. I also did a page of collocations.

25th October 2020 – Japanese

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I did two Kanji Kentei lessons and studied some idioms. I am going to take a pharmacology exam in June, so I started studying for that today. There is a lot to learn. I also read about 30 more pages of the novel Konbini Ningen.

24th October 2020 – Japanese

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I did a unit from my Kanji Kentei book and a few pages of idioms. I also read around 30 more pages of the novel Konbini Ningen. I’m enjoying it. It makes a change from the mystery and suspense novels I usually read.

23rd October 2020 – Japanese

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I continued reading the novel “Konbini Ningen”. I had a translation to do, so I didn’t have chance to do any kanji or idioms.

22nd October 2020 – Japanese

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I got a new novel today. It’s “Konbini Ningen” by Sayaka Murata. It won a prestigious prize and is supposed to be good, so I am taking a break from my usual go-to authors and trying this one. It’s about a woman who works in a convenience store. I read about 50 pages. So far so good. I also managed to fit some idiom study in as well.

18th October 2020 – Japanese

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I did two Kanji Kentei lessons, some idioms and some collocations.

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