How to pass Japanese N2 by self-study from zero foundation to three months? Personal experience

Let me introduce my background first, for your reference: I am a non-university undergraduate, a non-language major, and my NMET English score is about 120. I am definitely not a genius in language. I just passed the Japanese N2 exam by myself as an ordinary person, so this article will focus on how to pass the exam by myself.

Foreword: About our goal

Our goal is to pass Japanese N2 by ourselves within three months. This goal is divided into three parts:

1, the time is within three months, which is the necessary time for ordinary people to learn from scratch (language genius is ignored, and the great god even boasts that he passed N2 without reading). You can estimate your laziness and extend it appropriately. The calculation method of the required time will be explained in detail later.

2, the way is through self-study, that is, we don't rely on cram schools and formal lectures, but we can seize all available resources (as people say, it is absolutely free to spend money in Bai Piao, and I only spent 450 registration fee +50 yuan examination paper fee through Japanese N2, yes, even my textbooks are books from Bai Piao Library).

3. Replace N3 or N 1 with Japanese N2, because at present, N 1 (a very powerful senior level) has the highest public recognition of Japanese, followed by N2 (a senior who can understand Japanese), and then N14565438 or Japanese V3. So our goal is to directly test N2 in Japan, which is the most cost-effective method.

Choice is very important. After finding a firm direction, start to create miracles!

I. Preparation process

What do we need to prepare in order to pass the exam? We need to prepare a mood, test tools, and some time.

Let's suppose that an ideal person, Xiao Li, is going to Japan. ...

Xiao Li is a robot who likes Japanese very much and wants to learn Japanese well. He won't get bored with his studies, and he doesn't need a rest. He will finish the task as planned every day, but he doesn't even know Japanese. How can he pass the Japanese N2 exam in three months?

Step 1: Now that you have set the goal of taking the N2 exam, do you plan to start studying tomorrow?

From the moment you read this article, this war began!

For those who want to learn Japanese, only 10% will remember 50-tone pictures, and in the end, only 10% will successfully remember all 50-tone pictures, so the victory or defeat will be decided from the beginning.

So the first step that puzzles many Japanese learners is how to remember so many pentasyllables. I've watched a lot of video teaching, but it's useless when I see it. I can't remember, and I forget how to remember.

Here comes the point! ! ! How to remember so many pentatonic scales?

The solution is, forget it, forget it. Whether you write or not, you must move on!

What do you think I'll tell you? How to recite this song ぁぃぅぇぉ? I'll draw you a picture to help you remember it. Come on, have you seen so many video teaching? I told you ten thousand times, and the final result is that I remember, but you still don't remember. What should I do? Don't forget, I'm talking about self-study, I only teach you the method.

Where can I find Isuzu? There is a content under Baidu Encyclopedia that is a pseudonym source. Copy each pen name and the corresponding Chinese characters on a piece of paper and take it with you. Start reciting.

The Chinese written above are all useful, for example, Sasaki is ささき, and Nai is な in Kanna Hashimoto.

This is a time-limited task, and it will be finished in three days.

Is this possible? Don't forget, since you read this article, it means that you have to create a miracle to get rid of N2 in three months, so this is only a small step to create a miracle.

You may not be able to recite it, but let yourself recite it for three days before you can recite it. Don't stare at this picture all the time when you recite it. There are always ten lines, right? Four lines a day. Remember, after you recite it every day, try your best to find the pen name you recite. What do you mean? Let me give you an example to explain:

On the first day, you finished reciting the pseudonym "ぁかさた", you remembered Ma Dongmei, and then you closed the book. What was Ma Mei just now? Is it true? We are all the same. Forgetting is inevitable. It's not your fault. You just have to look for it. Baidu or anything else will do. If you like watching anime, you can find the name of teacher Saitama. Well, you have understood the first three pseudonyms. Maybe you can answer the last one first. If you like little sister, you can find Saito Asuka. You can watch it already! And so on, just like a game to find as much as possible.

Review the first four lines the next day and then recite four lines, no matter whether your pronunciation is wrong or not. Why do you read so strangely? Can you only write? Look up at our goal and tell me what our goal is. What if the pronunciation is wrong? What if you read it like Taijun in the anti-Japanese film? If anyone dares to question, throw your N2 certificate in his face and tell him: I got N2 in three months, and you? So you just have to learn by yourself, no matter what others say. If you don't study because reading is not standard, you will never learn.

On the third day, you recited less. You just need to study hard, find a pen name while reviewing, and tell yourself that today is the last day. You must recite it today, or you won't be able to sleep tonight.

After three days, if you do as I say, you must remember the pentatonic scale. ...

Really? You don't say! You have no super brain. After three days, you can remember most of the holidays. I'd appreciate it if I could recite half of it. All right. I don't remember the rest. I can spend another week slowly remembering it. While studying the text, you will remember it. If you don't know, just look it up. No teacher will scold you for being so stupid. Scold yourself at most and continue to learn.

Why do I want you to finish such an almost impossible task? Because I want you to feel the first step in creating a miracle. When you face failure, you are unwilling, and this feeling will only occur when you try to get the corresponding reward. With this unwillingness, you can further tap your potential and create your own miracle.

Second, the test tools

To pass this exam, you must know enough about it and then study according to the exam standards.

I won't copy and paste some nonsense that official website can find for you, and come straight to the point. If you don't understand, you can collect it first and compare it after you get the real test paper mentioned later.

First of all, open Taobao and search for Japanese N2 calendar year real questions (real questions! Don't simulate the questions, and don't predict the questions. We only take pictures of problems. If you find a white independent brochure, buy it immediately. There is no business here. You can find it by searching. By the way, I can buy at most 17 copies when I buy it. Now it seems that there are only 13 copies, but it is enough. Don't ask.

Then, as for the teaching materials, don't ask me which one to recommend. What suits you is the best. This is a principle. If you are a student, you can earn a lot of money. You can go to the library and read every Japanese textbook one by one. Just find those who teach from the beginning of Japanese Fifty Tones, believe in yourself, find one you like and watch interesting ones. Recommend a date. Many people will learn to go to Japan. What's the point of choosing one?

I use this one, mainly because there are fewer words and more pictures in it, and it doesn't look tired. In fact, the contents of the first and second volumes are not enough, but the core principle of the textbook is that you must like reading, and you are willing to regard it as a novel story, which is the best textbook.

If you are not a student, and you can't just pick any textbooks, as a standard player, you don't know anything, and you can't modify the game configuration yourself, so you can only choose the most standard configuration yellow book and standard Japanese.

Everyone's Japanese is full of Japanese words, and it is impossible for beginners to understand it without the guidance of teachers. However, the content of telling the truth in standard Japanese is very old-fashioned and divorced from reality, but if you look for a tutor, he will probably recommend this because it won't make mistakes and save a lot of subsequent troubles. But what I'm talking about here is just a standard for choosing teaching materials. I must like it and have the motivation to read it.

1, listening

Now you can start preparing for listening. Open Netease Cloud Music on your mobile phone, search for Japanese reading aloud, just choose the first song and listen to it in the background. Earphones are always on. In addition to communicating with people, your ears should be full of Japanese. This is an important part of the crash, commonly known as ear grinding. It doesn't matter if you don't understand.

But there is a key misunderstanding here. Many people will think, can I listen to Japanese songs?

No, my suggestion is to listen to the reading at normal speed, or short sentences with accelerated advertising words, because these are words that can be heard in life, and songs are artistically processed, which produce a lot of cadence and background interference and are not suitable for listening practice. If you really don't want to hear the story, I'm sorry, you can only listen for three days until your courier arrives, and then start listening to the real question directly. You will find that the stories told by these seiyuu are still very nice. )

Listening is the most important thing in the whole exam!

Listening is the most important thing in the whole exam! !

Listening is the most important thing in the whole exam! ! !

Therefore, we should attach importance to it from the beginning and make breakthroughs. If you do well in listening, you will win half of the exams.

Let's talk about the score division of Japanese exam:

Full score 180, divided into three parts: word grammar, reading and listening, with 60 points each. If any part does not reach 19, it will fail, and the total score needs to reach 90 to qualify. It means that you can't have obvious disadvantages and get as many points as possible in each module.

This is written on the surface and everyone knows it. What many people don't know is that the Japanese proficiency test is taken by people all over the world except the Japanese, and there are many similarities between China and the Japanese, so we have an advantage. Our advantage lies in reading. The correct reading rate of China people will be much higher, because we can guess the meaning of many Japanese characters, and the level of words and listening is very close, even our listening will be worse than that of other foreigners.

There is another important knowledge. The scoring mechanism of Japanese test is a unique deviation algorithm in Japan. Students who often watch Japanese dramas may know that this deviation algorithm means that if you are right, your score is not necessarily high, and if you are wrong, your score is not necessarily low. If it is a difficult problem, there is no point in this question. If it's a simple question, only one of you is wrong, and a lot of points will be deducted, so what we need to do is to make up our shortcomings.

The most efficient of these three modules is listening (but listening is the most difficult part to improve, and this contradiction may be difficult to understand). Listening is the part that must spend the most time studying. The method is as described above. Listen to the story+listen to the real question, to what extent? After listening to it dozens of times, you can keep up with Japanese. After listening for several months, you can recite all the contents of the listening questions, and there is one thing you can't.

Step 2 read the article

N2 reading is not difficult for China people. You can rest assured that it can be improved through the accumulation of reading. Here is a positive trick and a strange trick. As the old saying goes, a soldier can win by making a surprise attack.

The correct way is to recite the text and read extracurricular books. The text is the part you will definitely have in the textbook, and you will be finished when you recite it. You can enhance your understanding of the article by reciting. After learning the textbook every day, you recite the text of that day, and today's work is finished today.

You can find some Japanese historical story books, Japanese essays, or download Hujiang Xiao D directly. Articles are updated every day, and there are many current affairs news such as Ishihara Satoshi's marriage and Trump infection. It looks interesting.

What's more, when reading Hujiang Elementary D, you can directly click on unfamiliar words to read the meaning. Don't hesitate to read them directly. What you need is to understand the article quickly and don't spend too much time on some words. In addition, you will remember the words when you read the meaning. If you read the meaning of the same word the second time, you will feel deja vu, the third time you will be impressed, and the fifth time you will remember the word, so just read more.

The above is the correct method, and many qualified teachers will be willing to tell you the method. The following is a very strange trick, a wild way that regular schools can't learn.

That is to go out and see what the Japanese say and write. As for the meaning of going out, you can go out physically or by magic, depending on your own conditions. Here, we only talk about magic going out, not teaching magic. If you want to learn magic, you must find a way.

Everyone has a chance to learn Japanese more or less. For example, an old animator wants to learn Japanese, for example, Suda Masaki Haoshuai wants to learn Japanese, for example, Aragaki Yui is my wife who wants to learn Japanese, for example, posting to VTB wants to learn Japanese ... Well, since the opportunity has come, let's take you as their boyfriend/girlfriend. After paying attention to them, watch every tweet and every video carefully, as if these were for you. After all, the fastest way to learn a language is to talk about a cross-language love, because in love, you will try your best to understand what the other person said, and you will rack your brains to think about how to reply. Now that you have changed from a language recipient to a language user, try to leave a message for them. (Don't be too careful, just say one sentence in each tweet or video. )

If you are really a muggle and can't use magic, then turn on the beep. There is a virtual anchor zone for live broadcast, and Japanese anchors will always speak in Japanese. Being a listening radio station is also a good choice for you. After paying attention, you can see their tweets and words, which are very close to life. Although these terms will not appear in the N2 test, they can greatly improve your reading interest.

I need to say here, have anime and Japanese TV dramas helped me with N2?

The answer is definitely yes, but look at our goal. We didn't have much time to watch Japanese dramas and cartoons for three months. Time is precious and must be used in more critical places. If I have to watch it, I will give priority to: cooked meat with bilingual subtitles > raw meat without subtitles > Japanese drama > animation. Japanese drama is closer to life than animation, and most scenes on the stage are realistic, so the learning effect is better than animation.

3. Word grammar articles

Do you want to recite it? You must recite it. Will you spend a lot of time on it? You'd better not. The more you carry this thing, the less you can carry it. Don't you see how many students abandon the exam with Band 4 every day and recite it all the time? Memorizing words really takes time, but it's useless. So how to break the embarrassing situation that everyone says memorizing words is important but useless?

Just don't recite words by yourself. Do you think there is no word list except the back of the textbook? Do you remember how many words we memorized when we learned Chinese to speak and write? Then how do we remember so many words and keep creating all kinds of new words? I don't think anyone will buy a special online buzzword dictionary. No way, no way.

Yes, the method is in our hearts, just use it, so you just need to remember the words at the back of the textbook, and the rest of the vocabulary will be supplemented by reading, your conversation with Aidou and listening.

Another profound skill is to create a native Japanese environment for yourself. After all, not everyone has the conditions to go out physically. If there are no conditions, we will create one ourselves. How to create? Close your eyes and imagine that you are in Japan. Imagine that all the students around you are Japanese. They all speak Japanese, and you also speak Japanese, which is normal. ..................

Open your eyes and see what you have in your hand. (これは what It's your mobile phone (with you)

Ok, this operation means that you can translate everything you see (especially everything, including billboards, warning slogans, flowers, animals, birds, etc. ) translated into Japanese, but not translated? Didn't you just download Hujiang Elementary D? Just check it out. Say a word and think about how to say it in Japanese. When others say a word, you will also translate it in your mind. Of course, you will meet many new words. You will find new words and use them immediately, and then you will have an impression on this word. Repeat it a few more times and you will remember it. This is how I remember words. At first, because of your small vocabulary, you may have to use a translator to translate a whole sentence, but later, as your vocabulary increases, you will find that you will speak more and more, even spoken English.

Grammar can be read in the blue book, but the most important thing is not to let you memorize all the 200 grammars needed for the N2 exam (again, we don't remember them by super brain). You only need to look at the general impression to make you understand: Oh, it can be said that I originally wanted to say this sentence. Only pay attention to the inflections and honorifics of the verb 12. Just look at the general meaning. Honorific words are incomprehensible to the Japanese. I am only responsible for getting you through N2 quickly, so you just need to know what honorifics are and what they look like.

The method of each part is known, so our preparation has come to an end. Let's arrange this period of time and create a miracle beyond N2 in Japan within three months!

Third, time.

Our timetable needs to be calculated in stages backwards. Set aside the last month to brush the real questions and read the textbooks in the first two months (Xiao Li is an ideal person, but we will encounter all kinds of things, such as oversleeping, having a lot of classes today, being in a bad mood today and so on. , so you can extend some time appropriately).

How to get to the road of learning ahead?

First of all, you immediately bought real questions and textbooks from Taobao (or borrowed textbooks, Long live Bai Piao), prepared Hujiang Xiao D and Netease Cloud music on your mobile phone, and started listening training to sharpen your ears.

Then from now on, I only give myself three days to memorize all five tones, and I can start learning the textbook on the fourth day (it's too convenient to express everything in three days now, so don't make excuses to delay anyway, even if the book doesn't arrive, I can watch the video and learn the first lesson first). If you haven't finished learning Fifty Tones, hold it in your hand and read the text as a Little Tiger decryption card.

You have been listening to Japanese for three days, and you still can't understand what it is saying, but it's not a big problem.

There are quality requirements for our two-month study time. Because it is self-study, you don't have to think about learning like a teacher, and remember all the knowledge points. Those things cannot be quantified. It's easy for you to lose yourself when you study, so I'll help you quantify all your learning goals.

Japanese N2 requires mastering 12 verb variants, 200 grammars and more than 6,000 words. Don't be stupid enough to remember these things. You just need to study two classes a day for 60 days according to the textbook you choose, which is *** 120 classes in total. That's enough. Then check the syllabus and see what you haven't learned. For example, honorifics can't be learned.

How can I judge whether I have really learned this lesson? There are too many exercises later, so I won't write them. You must do two things. The first thing is to find the grammar knowledge mentioned in this lesson, that is, fixed sentence patterns and deformations, and memorize them, preferably by dictation. Then block the words with white paper. You look at Chinese and write Japanese silently on it. One more thing, recite the text, this should be recited every day. Learn one lesson at a time. The previous text is generally short, so it doesn't take too much time to recite, and the later text begins to grow. It will be a little tiring to recite, so it is best to recite more in front to buy time for the back.

You can feel these things yourself, so you know whether you have learned them or not. Even if you are too tired to recite it today, don't look back. Leave more time for yourself the next day, solve the task of the day first, and then go back to make up the task of the previous day.

Never stop. Once you stop, it's hard to start again. You can rest, but make sure that even if you rest, you just learn to relax less, not just watch.

Don't stop listening in the meantime. As long as you are maintaining the necessary social functions, Japanese can be played honestly in headphones.

After studying for a week or so, you can speak some complete words. Congratulations on this exciting moment. You can start reading after class, but you still can't understand the long article at all. You can read some short sentences, such as how to say happy birthday, how to say happy new year, what my husband/wife said today, and what I can reply to him with my lifelong study. It is no problem to finish it with the help of a translator.

In the second week, you learn more and know more words. You have enough words and phrases. Start creating obstacles in your native language environment. According to the above, turn everything around you into Japanese. During this period, the number of words will rise rapidly, and you will also encounter bottlenecks. Because you haven't learned a lot of grammar, you can't express it, so if possible, write what happens every day in a Japanese diary (words that can't be translated). Then ask the teacher for help, or someone who can speak Japanese around you (you really can't pretend to learn Japanese, you can take a diary to test those Japanese cram school teachers, which is always more difficult than reality). You can already understand some of the simplest Japanese essays, you can also understand half of your husband/wife's tweets, and you can even guess what they are saying. Keep it up.

In the third week, you can already write a small composition for primary school students, which is a great progress. Remember to save the first article you wrote (as your black history, look back after N2 ~), and remember to check whether your listening and reading links are stagnant or not, and whether you are persisting in reciting the text seriously, so you won't find yourself making such rapid progress.

In the fourth week, if you persist, you will have developed your own study habits. Your study progress may be different from what I described. This is normal. As long as the progress of the big stage is consistent, learning this thing is always orderly. If you are slow, don't be discouraged. Adjust your time and status, and make up later. If you make progress faster than I said, congratulations. I hope you won't be complacent about learning from rabbits in the tortoise-hare race. It's a long way to go, Xiu Yuan, and there is no light load. Our goal is not over yet.

After the first month, take out the real questions we bought and write a set. Don't give yourself time, just finish them.

I know that most people don't have the strength to do real questions at this time, so it's normal to write badly. Just write. Only when you write them down will you know how far you are from passing the exam. As long as you look directly at your own shortcomings, you can surpass your past growth. Don't worry about such a messy test paper. It's a waste. What is waste? If you haven't finished these papers before the exam, it's a waste! You haven't passed the exam once. It's a waste to buy another test paper.

In the second month, after knowing your own gap, study hard. Actually, you don't have to worry at all. You can pass the exam after studying 120 hours, but you can only find your own shortcomings through periodic exam summary, otherwise you will get lost in continuous learning. The daily process is the same as before, but you can do more things, understand many articles, and even fully understand Twitter several times. Your reply is no longer a simple approval, but a reply to the relevant content according to the content sent. Maybe you will be praised by yourself. This is the fun of learning a language. Watching myself grow up from babbling, I can finally cross the language barrier and share the same feelings with you. The hard work ahead is not worth it.

After listening and reciting for a long time, you can go back to the story you heard by grinding your ears and find that you can understand part of it, and you can laugh at some Japanese jokes. This feeling is really wonderful.

Kong Yiji is called "Kong Yiji" because it ranks first. If ranked seventh, it is called Kong Nana (なな).

Because the time is approaching and the knowledge density is increasing, I will feel faster in the second month. Remember to brush the real questions again after the second month. I believe you will face this set of papers with more confidence.

Maybe the result is still terrible, but it doesn't matter what it is. Just rest for three days and insist on reading and listening to lectures every day (you can also take time to watch a play? Bring a moonshine. I recommend watching a Japanese drama "Long Ying" to tell you how to get into Dongda University. It's inspiring and touching, and you are doing the same thing as them. If you succeed, you will become a legend in the eyes of others. )

Have a good rest, and then the last month of intensive training in hell.

In the last month, brush the real questions, brush the real questions, brush the real questions. This is the only thing. We bought real questions three months ago. We bought 13 real questions, and now there are about 10 left. We will write an article every two days. On the first morning, I continued to listen to lectures and read books after class, and set aside three hours in the afternoon to squeeze out time. Simulated time exams will help you better adapt to the exam environment (and help you avoid my mistakes. If you can't go to the toilet for three hours, you will really cry, so you should train early to hold your urine. After you finish, correct the wrong questions for yourself and continue to listen to the real questions in this set of papers at night. You must listen to the real questions again and again, again and again.

The next day, seriously solve every wrong question written yesterday. The answers to the white papers recommended above are all analysis, and reading and listening are also translation. Every time you solve a problem, you get one more point in the exam. Every mistake is a fortune, which can lead you to find a life-saving straw. Believe me, quantitative change will definitely lead to qualitative change.

We need to have a goal when we do the problem. Our goal is to pass N2, so only half the correct rate is enough? No! If you just want to pass the exam, set your goal at 1 10. If you want to be as high as possible, set the goal at 150, and let yourself jump to achieve this goal when practicing.

Yes, long live 60 minutes. One more minute will be wasted. Many people think so, but it is amazing that the person who thinks so is often the last person who fails the course, because "the person who takes the method above gets it, and the person who takes the method below gets it", your goal is 100, you may only get more than 90 points, your goal is 80 points, you may just pass, and your goal is 60 points, so your final probability is to fail the course.

Fourth, the moment to witness the miracle-the final exam

The test paper should be written one week before the exam. You should finish all the papers in the last week, and you should finish almost all the courses. Think about this time. You learned Japanese from scratch, memorized 50 tones, understood the article, even talked with idols, and finally went to the examination room. You can understand the pain of reciting the text and the incomprehension and ridicule of others along the way.

Besides listening to real questions (not necessarily stories) and reading Japanese articles all the time, you can also do some other things, such as joining a subtitle group and trying to help with translation. For example, after your husband/wife sends Weibo, you can explain the content to other people who don't understand, then read the wrong questions, go to the examination room early and spend the last week leisurely.

Go to the examination room early for the final exam and give yourself enough time to get familiar with it. On the way, you can say everything you see with your words. Now you just have to tell yourself that you are ready.

Of course, you don't have to be nervous at all, because you have only studied for three months, as I said at the top of the article after the exam. In such a short time, you are the genius who created miracles in 666. If you haven't passed the exam, you can tell yourself that it doesn't matter. Anyway, it's normal for me to pass the exam in such a short time. Just relax. Besides, you have practiced so many times, and you have done more than others in the familiar time exam.

However, I still want to say that even if you have been listening for three months, you have heard countless real questions. Because of the sound quality of the examination room and the big classroom, it is normal for you not to hear it. There are people who cry after hearing it every year, but you should listen carefully. Remember what we said before about the grading standard of N2 exam? Deviation value, everyone is wrong, you don't deduct points if you are wrong, and you will deduct points if you are wrong about the questions that everyone is right. Therefore, with your persistent listening training for three months, at least you can hear simple questions, which is enough. Do your job well, and then Mann proposes.

5. Postscript-something I want to say about this exam.

N2 is a watershed in Japanese learning. In many places, it is required to recruit at least N2 people, but this does not mean that N2 people are enough. This just means that with N2 certificate, at least you can teach yourself. The passing rate of N2 in Japanese is about 40% every year, which is not low at all, but it can still be recognized, because it takes at least three months to effectively learn N2 in Japanese. This is the certificate of Japanese use, which shows that you are qualified to use Japanese.

But you know what? The introduction of Japanese is N 1, because Japanese is a typical language with easy entry and increasingly difficult follow-up, and all kinds of verb variants, honorifics, simplified words, all kinds of network buzzwords are equally difficult in Chinese. Don't think that you can speak Japanese after N2. This road is far from enough.

Moreover, if I crash Japanese N2 according to my method, I will probably get it, but the consequence is that I learn it too fast and haven't laid a solid foundation yet. At this time, the farther you go, the more difficult it is. This is also the dilemma I am facing in Japanese learning at present, because all my N2 skills are listening and reading, and learning a language requires listening, speaking, reading and writing. Although what I said later was made up by volunteering for Japanese students at school, I still need a lot of time to practice writing this puzzle, so passing this exam does not mean the end, but a new beginning.

Writing this article is just to share my own learning experience, and there are inevitably omissions in the method. Thank you for your suggestions.