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[which_chick]

This is kind of fun, if you like that sort of thing. Probably somewhat fun for not_your_real, anyway. I blew the better part of the evening with it last night. (Scroll down, there's a ton of stuff there.)

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[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

I liked this. I got 69% on the animal one, which I didn't expect. Not nearly that high - expectations!

And it's nice, it works you through those you don't know.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

It's not bad -- I'm getting a real feel from it, though, that multiple choice tests are for wankers. It's possible to pass multiple choice tests with an incomplete and insufficient amount of clue. (Dunno how I got through the amount of school I have without having grasped this...)

Take, for example, this one:


I don't have the foggiest idea how to pronounce that (my dictionary says it's はながたかい) but I do know it's (literally) nose-in-the-air, which ain't a long leap to be proud.

Or maybe this one, another compound I don't actually KNOW as such:


My little brain parses that as "world-beneath-iron" (the three kanji in the compound, taken individually) which doesn't have to go far to get to subway. Actually, what I got was "world" (which I knew) and "beneath" (which I also knew) and "some kind of metal, damn it, I forget what kind" because the leading radical there in that last kanji, we can see, is a miniature 金, which usually means that we're talking about metals. (銀 is silver, 銅 is copper, 鉄 is steel...) Given the choices at hand, subway is clearly the best option.

Or, y'know, look at this one:


It's not a compound I know, but I'm damn skippy that putting する on the end of it makes it a verb, same way that adding it to 勉強 (study, diligence) makes 勉強する, doing-study or studying. You can put する at the end of a fair amount of words to make verbal sorts of things in Japanese. So. It's a verbal sort of thing. Looking at the answers, instead of five verbish choices, I have two. My odds went from one in five (20%) to 1 in two (50%) and when I asked it for pronunciation, the jig was up because I know しんぱいする means worry, be concerned. Usually I see it as "Don't worry" -- 心配するな -- but that's because I watch anime where guys are going off to do stupid stuff and reassuring their friends that everything will be fine.

Same thing happens over and over... they give me おかしい, which I know from looking at it is probably an i-adjective a lot like 難しい (difficult) or 大きい (big) or 楽しい (fun). The answers only have one adjective, two nouns, and two verbish things. The adjective is, dur, strange, queer which is a good match for おかしい.

The upshot of this is that, due to lame or easily-hacked test design, I look like I know assloads more than I actually know. *sigh* Buggerit. V. depressing, this. Flashcards (see-n-say) are harder. I should make some. It'd be good for me.