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New JLPT N3 Prep Course 9

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Grammar Points

The Focus of This Lesson Is the Listening Comprehension Section

1 of the

New JLPT N3 Prep Course.

The level of linguistic competence required for the Listening Comprehension
section of JLPT N3 is as follows:

situations, spoken at near-natural speed, and is generally able to follow the
content as well as grasp the relationships among the people involved.

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minutes and contains twenty-eight questions. There are five types of questions in
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Summary comprehension

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Comprehension section.

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actions after listening to a conversation that contains suggestions or advice.

The answer choices are printed in the question booklet. The situation and the
questions are presented before the conversation, but they are not printed in the
booklet.

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"In Question 1, listen to the question first, and then listen to the
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1. Vocabulary for body parts, such as:

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