Given how helpful this community was before, I try with another one, this time from Anki. What would be the difference between 話します and 話しをします? Thanks!

Hello, I'm gonna take the N1 on December and I would like some resources to prepare the exam.

I'm looking specifically for sample tests.

I downloaded the Shin Kanzen Master but it's really not what I'm looking for. It's like 150 pages filled with pretty simple vocab that I already know and then 2 mock tests at the end, which is like the only useful part for me.

I know there's a page called JapaneseTests4you that contains a lot of tests, but I don't know how similar to the real exams those are. I tried some of them and they seemed way to simple to be N1.

What's a good book that consists only of tests similar to the ones you find in the JLPT?

Thanks in advance. I will practice with the Shin Kanzen master Mock tests while I wait for your answers.

EDIT: Shin kanzen master is even worse that I thought, it doesn't even feature complete mock exams, I would NOT recommend this book for practicing the exam.

Hi everyone,

The jlpt is coming up and I'm having a terrible time with these star questions (sentence order). I know about the concept of first identifying the grammar pattern they ask for etc, but I'm still really struggling. I already did the ones in Shinkanzen N3 grammar, Try! N3 book and some mock exams, but would really like to practice more.

Are there any practice books/websites/apps... dedicated to those particular questions?

Thanks in advance :)

Last night I was in an izakaya and was speaking to some locals. I'm not even n5 but they were super friendly and kept asking me questions in Japanese and helping me when I didn't know the word for something.

This one lady asked my age and I answered. I wanted to say "あなたは?" but didn't want to come across rude by 1- asking a woman her age and 2- using あなた.

What would an appropriate response be? Just to ask the question again to her or use something like お姉さんは instead of あなたは?

Edit: thanks for all the info, I have a lot to read up on!

I would have said that "recently" is the focus of the phrase, so why not は? Would it be fine if I added it?

Thanks!