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May 02, 2003
Goal Setting
I was reading through Vision Magazine last night and saw an article on goal setting in one of the older issues. I was intrigued and had a read through. Its great! Its aimed at goal setting related to a writing career (which is one of my dreams at the moment). I had a think about it but decided I needed to do a bit more actual writing before dedicating myself to writing a novel. Nonetheless the goal setting article was really useful. One goal I've had since coming to Japan which I haven't been doing so well with is learning Japanese. So, following the articles advice I decided to make the goal more specific so I had something to work towards. So here is my goal:
Goal: Pass Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2 in December 2004
Date set: 1st of may 2003
Finish Target: December 2004 (whenever they hold the exam)
I checked on the JLPT website and I need to learn about 1000 Kanji (chinese characters) and 6000 words. Have a high grasp of grammar and be able to talk/read/write about general things in japanese. I worked out that I need to spend about one hour per day and learn two kanji and ten words per day. In reality if the figures given on the site are reasonable I can do less than this as I already know some Japanese (though only about 80 kanji).
So there you have it. My goals for Japanese learning until the end of 2004. If you have anything you want to do or are dreaming of doing, give the goals workshop a try.
Posted by JapanMike at May 2, 2003 10:49 AM
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