I’ve been studying for N2 for nine or so months now after passing N3 last summer 130/180. I’m living in Japan, studying four hours per day at a language school + roughly a couple hours of self study, yet I still get torn apart by things like the JLPT style questions of “read the article and fill in the missing grammar parts.” Today in class on this kind of practice sheet I got four out of five wrong. But it’s not only this, I also struggle with listening, reading, vocabulary — in other words, everything. Being that I seem to not be retaining much long term despite studying a lot, what should I be doing instead? / what did you do to master N2?
I’ve heard lots of people say “just read books,” and I think that’s great advice, but I have a really poor attention span and can barely even read English books, let alone Japanese ones. Advice related to this problem would also appreciated. Thanks to everyone who reads and replies.
by AirborneCthulhu