Yesterday I (along with thousands of other hopeful foreigners) took the level-2 Japanese Level Proficiency Test (日本語能力試験 if you must know). There are 4 levels, 1 being the highest. Suffice to say, level 2 is pretty difficult.
There are three sections. The first is devoted to "Writing and Vocabulary" even though there's no writing, just kanji recognition. I did okay on that section, but not great. The second is "Listening" which I feel very confident about. The third is "Reading and Grammar," which totally rocked my world (in a bad way). I think I guessed on about 90% of those questions.
Well, at the very least it goes to show my strong/weak points.
Thankfully it's over, but it does make me want to improve my reading skills.

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You should record yourself (audio or video or both) of you speaking Japanese. Don't know about anyone else but I would be interested in hearing some Justin Japanese Talk.
Posted by: oldefezziwig | December 5, 2006 12:30 AM