Studying...

Nothing exciting to report. I spent the majority of the day studying 6 new grammar... grammars? Can I say grammars? Anyway, learning 6 new things from a book in one day isn't easy, so I'm hoping we had to read about these for preparation so that we're familiar with it. The new things were:

～っぽい (-ish or like)
～ぐらいで (even with x, it's y!)
だけあって（さすがに）(because of x, no wonder it's y)
いくら／どんなに (No matter how x the y is, z)
ところを見ると (seeing x, it seems to be y)
だけで (Just given x, y)

And then on the last page of the reading it it made two of the above seem to be the exact same thing... All throughout studying this I came across so many words I didn't know, or some that I knew but not the kanji reading, or both... I've filled up a 150+ page flashcard booklet now with words I wonder if I'm already supposed to know for level 4... Man. I need to practice this grammar for it to work, but in class I'm always intimidated by, well, everyone else but one guy (who speaks in English whenever he can...)

Only Speaking tomorrow so we'll see how it goes. That and how the second placement test went. I'll be a little dissapointed if I have to drop to level 3 for easy material, even more so having to waste money on a Genki textbook. I feel I can handle the new material if we just formally start on something already.