What is your level in Jpod101?

[watermen]

What is your level in Jpod101?

I am curious to know what is everyone's level. I am beginner.

[Javizy]

I do the intermediate lessons, but I voted lower intermediate. I can understand the intermediate dialogues most of the time, but I don't always understand the rest of the talking. I can read Doraemon fairly comfortably with a dictionary, but Death Note was way too hard. I'm getting pretty familiar with with a lot of grammar and speech patterns, but my vocabulary has a long way to go.

I'd recommend that you get some sort of children's book or manga at your level. The lessons here aren't always a good way to judge your progress. The translations get stuck in your head, so it's hard to tell if you can understand the Japanese dialogue or just remember the English. Also, at the rate you're speeding through lessons, you'll forget a lot of vocabulary and probably the grammar too, so outside reading is a good way to reinforce what you've learned.

[watermen]

I do the intermediate lessons, but I voted lower intermediate. I can understand the intermediate dialogues most of the time, but I don't always understand the rest of the talking. I can read Doraemon fairly comfortably with a dictionary, but Death Note was way too hard. I'm getting pretty familiar with with a lot of grammar and speech patterns, but my vocabulary has a long way to go.

I'd recommend that you get some sort of children's book or manga at your level. The lessons here aren't always a good way to judge your progress. The translations get stuck in your head, so it's hard to tell if you can understand the Japanese dialogue or just remember the English. Also, at the rate you're speeding through lessons, you'll forget a lot of vocabulary and probably the grammar too, so outside reading is a good way to reinforce what you've learned.

ありがとうございます。簡単の読み物の例えばがしりますか。 Not sure if my grammar is right, please correct me if I am wrong.

[jemstone]

i'm beginner too! and i'm quite encouraged by what javizyさん said abt reading books instead of relying totally on jpod101 as the translation do get memorized instead of the real-time translation. i noticed that when i could recall exactly what was said in the conversation.

gonna look around for japanese children books soon.

[Javizy]

A few mistakes there, but I understood what you were trying to say.

簡単 is a な-adjective, so to link it to a noun you need to add な after it. You add の to link nouns.

例えば is an expression meaning 'for example', usually used at the start of a sentence. It is a conditional form of the verb 例える meaning 'to liken, to compare', and is one of many verbs whose ます-stem can be used as a noun, so 例え means 'example'.

Lastly, somebody knowing something is considered to be a state, so in Japanese the present progressive form is used しっている, literally 'are you knowing'. This is quite a confusing aspect of Japanese, and probably something you learn from familiarity.

As for reading materials, since you've only been studying a short time, I'd look for some really simple manga or perhaps picture books. The best bet would be to go to a bookshop and have a look to see what you can read.

[watermen]

A few mistakes there, but I understood what you were trying to say.

簡単 is a な-adjective, so to link it to a noun you need to add な after it. You add の to link nouns.

例えば is an expression meaning 'for example', usually used at the start of a sentence. It is a conditional form of the verb 例える meaning 'to liken, to compare', and is one of many verbs whose ます-stem can be used as a noun, so 例え means 'example'.

Lastly, somebody knowing something is considered to be a state, so in Japanese the present progressive form is used しっている, literally 'are you knowing'. This is quite a confusing aspect of Japanese, and probably something you learn from familiarity.

As for reading materials, since you've only been studying a short time, I'd look for some really simple manga or perhaps picture books. The best bet would be to go to a bookshop and have a look to see what you can read.

まず、ありがとうございます。
簡単な読み物を知っていますか。例えば。。。How about this, is it correct?

でも、フィラデルフィアに日本語書店がありませんね。ネットはどうですか。(Please correct me if I am wrong, thanks )

[Ulver_684]

What is your level in Jpod101?

I am curious to know what is everyone's level. I am beginner.

Waterman-san!

I'm a Newbie/Beginner now!

[Griff]

Beginner, and slowing down