I use the grammar questions renshuu gives you to write my sentences on paper but my main mistake is not translating things 'accurately' even if theyre functionally correct (i think)
For example i wrote "that (there) is a spacious store" as 「その店は広いです」instead of 「そこは広い店です」which i know isnt litteraly translated but it has all the same content..
I also tend to mistranslate things like 'dislike' into 嫌い instead of 好きじゃない
And i think thats kindof a good thing because my goal is to speak japanese, not translate it literally after all..
But on the other hand i still got it wrong.
Right now im thinking of giving myself half points.. though im not sure how to grade my grammar without refferences yet.. since i dont wanna mark mistakes as correct either
I havent figured out my grading/correcting style for sentences yet so its very messy/inconsistent (not to mention the handwriting itself... but it wasnt meant to ever be seen by anyone so yk..) but thats how i did it on my 3rd attempt at sentences..
(I thought its an odd question to ask but mother dearest said it wouldnt hurt to just put it out there anyways)
You could always find a Discord server to post sentences you aren’t too sure about to have people point out mistakes and/or correct them for you in order to help with your self-grading. No shame in asking for some assistance
Im not really good with discord servers.. theres always so much happening all at once and id have to wait and hope for anyone to see it.. usually my messages just drown among people who already know eachother
Hah, I would grade my sentences maybe 4/10 (the way im progressing, I can say im happy with my progress). Writing vertical just feels like an OG japanese. Ngl, your sentences seems good enough for a beginner. Keep up the good work gng.
I've occasionally made grammatically correct sentences that aren't what the answer would be. I chalk that up to the fact that the answer is electronically a pre-configured answer. But grammatically correct is grammatically correct. That would mean that both answers are correct.
Japanese fortunately has that leniency in some part that you can rearrange sentences as long as the pair of words and particles are together and say the same thing. There are some cases there is an order to things in what youre talking about, but that shouldn't be difficult to figure out and that doesn't necessarily cancel out the remaining information, so it still has that feature.
As for grading myself, I don't concern myself with that. It's not the trouble of making the right answer. I often do anyway, and that's because I drill a lot. My real issue is working on comprehension. It's deeper than worrying about what you're saying. It's about how you say it. So, you can say the same thing in different ways, the important part is using the pattern properly, and that's different to just trying to make a proper sentence, if that makes sense to you.
I work with what I have, but I'm not putting too much stock in how Renshuu evaluates or requires what I should practice. I practice what I can in my own time. Working on different muscles of the body, rather than everything at once.
I really like counting points and giving myself little grades because it makes for a nice overview and big number go wheee
I just never made it past 6th grade (healthstuffs) so i have no idea how a teacher / tutor would evaluate Functionally correct (accurate sentence content) but Technically incorrect (literal translation) answers
If im practicing grammar i should use the grammar in question or im gonna end up with gaps in my knowledge.. but i dont wanna give myself a 0/4 or something if everything else is accurate..
Ive been learning through apps for long enough to know that a tighter selection on options is the tradeoff for having a 24/7 teacher and im flexible enough to build around it
