In the review dialogues for these last few lessons, you may have noticed a lot of extra particles (O, Wa, A etc.) being added within the dialogues. These are common in daily speech and have purposely been added to get you a feel for the language and particles that people tend to use while talking. If you hear them enough times, you will slowly understand the context of where best to use them. You will recognize an increase in your fluency when you start to find yourself using these particles in speech without even realizing that you are doing so!

I read a great quote recently: “You don’t learn by memorizing. You memorize by using.” Were you able to understand the dialogues presented in the review lessons? You may have found some old vocabulary presented in a different manner so take the time to review earlier lessons if you aren’t clear on the meaning (click on the words in the complete transcript to find out which lessons they were first introduced in). Once you are satisfied that you understand the majority of the material, find places where you can use the vocabulary and expressions taught. The Pong Audio forum has been added to give you the opportunity to practice some of what you have learned. The tasks there start out easy, but will slowly become more complicated to allow you to reproduce what you’ve learned. Good luck with your preparation for level 3!