The December JLPT didn't happen last year. Well, it happened, but not for me: the planned concerted throwing-myself-at-the-books never really got going. I might have a go at it this year; I notice that today is day 38 of the year and Sunday December 2nd this year is day 337, so I have 300 days, if I include what's left of today, to prepare for it.
I haven't been totally idle recently; been doing quite a lot of listening to Japanese radio stations and am starting to be able to spot verb endings and postpositions. There's a hell of a lot more to listening comprehension than that, but it's a start. If there's any one thing I'm likely to screw up in a language exam it's listening comprehension, so I know I really need to get cracking on this.
For all that I 'want' to learn Japanese intensively, I find myself not getting very much study done. Thinking about what a fine thing it would be to have studied the language to a high level turns out to be more fun than actually doing the studying. I know the ends that I want but the means are too much like hard work. Khatz, of the excellent AJATT site, has a lot of useful stuff to say about this sort of thing.
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