I hate you, New Approach Chapter 9
Friday, February 22nd, 2008We did two tests this week on Chapter 9 of our textbook, New Approach. In the first, I got 5/12, which is officially the lowest result I’ve ever gotten in any Japanese test ever in my life. Today we did the second test and the teacher looked through them and said 「みんな、ちょっと・・・！」 (”Everyone… hold on a minute…!!”) and handed them back to us to correct them during class. People didn’t do so well in it. I got about 4/12 by my marking.
I believe the problem is that this chapter has a lot of grammar which is either the same or very close to what we’ve studied before a long time ago. So long ago that it’s just part of our Japanese language and not something our brains have flagged for “being learned right now”. So when there’s a question asking me complete a sentence using the grammar we’re studying now, I just can’t see what it is that it wants from me.
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