JLPT Podcast – JLPT Boot Camp – The Ultimate Study Guide to passing the Japanese Language Proficiency Test

Episodes

1. 10

   JLPT BC 167 | Learning to take Breaks

   This last month has been pretty rough on me to be honest. There was a lot of last minute planning for my vacation. And of course, right when you want to go on vacation, everything seems to need extra attention. More work to do at work. More fires to put out. I haven’t had as […]

   Sep 16, 2015

   17m
2. 9

   JLPT BC 165 | Speaking Practice with FluentU

   I’ve always found summer to be a more active time. Despite the oppressive heat and humidity we have here in Japan, I still think the increased sunlight and ability to walk around the house in a lot less clothes just makes me do something more than keeping my nose in a book. People always ask […]

   Jul 29, 2015

   19m
3. 8

   JLPT BC 164 | You’ll always be an Outsider in Japan

   I grew up in white bread America where the corn grows high and hills don’t. I spent most of my time in a city of a mere 10,000 where everybody knew each other (and who was doing what to who). It was not uncommon to go downtown to run some errands and run into a […]

   Jul 15, 2015

   20m
4. 7

   JLPT BC 161 | Doing it the Hard Way

   In school, I always had a hard time paying attention in class. The teacher would lecture away and we were suppose to be taking notes, but to be honest I could never proper filter out what was important and what wasn’t. Half the time I left the class knowing that I had listened to something […]

   May 27, 2015

   17m
5. 6

   JLPT BC 160 | BSing in Japan, Honne vs. Tatemae

   A few years back, I was working at a school and we were trying to arrange a farewell party for one of our fellow teachers. One teacher found a great Indian restaurant that wasn’t too far away from the school. It seemed like a great place. It had a big room to accommodate everyone and […]

   May 13, 2015

   24m
6. 5

   JLPT BC 159 | Analog vs. Digital

   I’ve been taking it pretty easy with my studies recently due to some re-prioritizing of my time. I’m chugging away on Hirugao and Harry Potter but I’m giving myself a little more time to digest things. I felt a bit rushed of late trying to get through study sessions and I’m finding that is not […]

   Apr 29, 2015

   19m
7. 4

   JLPT BC 157 | Back to jDramas

   I’ve been spending (or wasting depending on how you look at) with keeping my streaks up on Memrise. I think it is great to have that daily goal, but I have busy days and not so busy days and it can make it hard to keep up with keeping a good streak going. This has […]

   Apr 1, 2015

   16m
8. 3

   JLPT BC 155 | Intensive Reading and Memrise Update

   I’ve been trying to keep my studying pretty steady over the last couple of months and not really piling on and changing anything. This has a lot to do with me just having way too much going on for me to focus on going in a different direction. I’m also not entirely sure where to […]

   Mar 4, 2015

   25m
9. 2

   JLPT BC 154 | Big Hero 6 vs. Baymax

   A couple of weeks back I had some free time to take my family to Baymax (US title: Big Hero 6). It is a cute little movie about a boy, named Hiro, who befriends his brother’s robot and ultimately goes on to fight the bad guy and save the day with his trusty team of […]

   Feb 18, 2015

   21m
10. 1

    JLPT BC 153 | The Inevitable Catch Up Phase

    December in Japan is always unbelievably busy. There is the Christmas/Bonenkai party season. Then, you have New Year’s cards to design and write. And finally, the big cleaning where you throw out as much of the old as you can to make way for the new. Then after New Year’s, you have your first…

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    Feb 4, 2015

    22m