Hi everyone,
After finishing Tango N5 and N4, Refold JP1K, and Kaishi 1.5k anki decks I tried 上級へのとびら and found the text quite interesting, also the chapter kanjis and grammar points as they are listed. However, I don't like much the exercises, so I decided to try immersing in light novels (using a 2017 macbook and somehow I'm unable to set up a configuration for visual novels).
I'm currently reading my first LN (got the recommendation from here; また、同じ夢を見ていた) and while I find it quite interesting despite my slow progress, I noticed that I'm skipping a lot of grammar points, for example:
「まるで二人で何かの特訓をしているようだなと思い」
Yomichan suggests that まるで and ようだ mean "just like", "looks like, "as if", so I decided to ask the difference to Chat GPT and it explained that まるで is commonly used with ようだ, elaborated on its meaning, and said that it is also a common N3 grammar point.
At this point I wonder if I should just copy and paste every piece of text in Chat GPT to identify grammar points or simply keep reading and not worrying much about it.
My intention is to enroll for N3 in July, so was planning on reading until the end and about 2 months before the test day follow the 総まとめ grammar plan.
By the way, that's not related to the main topic but I would like to also ask, besides sentence mining, I'm currently doing the Tango N3 and 新完全マスター語彙N3, and when I finish them (which is in about 90 days) start getting ready for the test (as it will be my first time) with the 日本語の森 book; この一冊で合格する. Do you think it is enough? Or should I stick to Tobira and force myself to do the exercises?
Thank you in advance.
by Neith720