Ease of Use: easy, pretty self-explanatory.
Content: Very difficult IF you forget vocab/kanji easily, but a good way to test your vocab knowledge.
Structure: It is broken into 30 tests/units and a two page 3 min review on katakana, keigo, idioms, set phrases, etc. after every 5 units.
For each test:
*Part 1: guess the hiragana
(𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘥𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢 う 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 つ)
*Part 2: guess the kanji
(𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘫𝘪 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦-𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘫𝘪)
*Part 3: find the synonym
(𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺)
*Part 4: fill-in-the-blank for the sentence
(𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴)
*Part 5: chose the sentence that uses the word correctly
(𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵)
Interactive: yes bc it’s a review test prep book, so it’s all multiple-choice questions.
Overall: It was useful, but honestly it also made me quite frustrated. I think because vocab and kanji is something I straight up memorize usually and there were a lot of words that I had never seen before. I studied from the 2000単語N3 and though I forgot some, I still think it doesn’t cover everything needed for this prep book.
But it did make me realize that I do know a lot more words than I did before studying all that vocabulary. I’m a lot better at kanji recognition and guessing the meaning.
I think it would be best to have a pretty solid understanding of N3 vocabulary from multiple sources before trying to use this book in my opinion, otherwise it’s too many unknown words.
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