Last week marked six months remaining until the next Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Considering I started studying almost immediately after the previous one ended, my time to progress from JLPT Level 3 to JLPT Level 2 is halfway up ( Read more... )

昨夜、12月の上旬に受けた日本語能力試験の合否結果通知書が届いた。思っていた通り、合格した。

点数の表
語彙・漢字100100100.00%
聴　　　解6110061.00%
文法・読解19320096.50%
総　合　点35440088.50%この結果によって私の思考に気付かされた。私の日本語能力は読むこと・書くことより聞くこと・話すことの方が苦手みたいだ。今年の12月の日本語能力試験の聴解のために、今から聞くことに一生懸命に上手になりたい。でも、聞くことの改善の仕方がまだわからない ( Read more... )

Well, everything went well with my JLPT (Level 3) test this past Sunday. I won't receive the results until late February/early March, but I know I passed...the only question is by how much? 60% is passing; I'm counting on getting at least an 85%. I have to say I'm pleased that I met all the goals I set for myself back in September in studying ( Read more... )

So, Thanksgiving has come and gone at home. Of course, there's no Thanksgiving in Japan. However, curiously, the fourth Thursday in November is a national holiday: Labor Day. I'm wondering if that day was established as a holiday during the occupation, and when control was transferred back to the Japanese they assigned their own meaning to the ( Read more... )