The results for the JLPT came in the mail yesterday. I passed 2kyuu!
My score was 258 out of 400 (240 is passing). I just barely passed, but I’ll take it.
My scores were:
Vocab/Kanji – 74/100
Listening – 56 / 200
Reading/Grammar – 128 / 200
My overall score is about what I was expecting based on all the practice [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Japanese’
Sleep
Last week, I finished reading “Sleep” by Murakami in Japanese. It definitely gave me a nice sense of accomplishment to read an actual work of literature in Japanese, as opposed to a comic book or the artificial Japanese found in textbooks. There were a lot of words I had to look up, but by and [...]
Learning Japanese, another perspective
Its hard to believe that I have officially been studying Japanese now for just a little over 11 years now. I’m not fluent but I’m very happy at the progress I’ve made and continue to make everyday. Japanese is certainly a challenge, but I’ve always found the challenge to not be as nearly as difficult [...]
象の消滅 – The Elephant Vanishes
When I went to the library on Sunday, Ranmafan had just posted about the Murakami novel that he was reading, and for years Naftali has highly recommended Murakami’s work. So at the library, I got a copy of The Elephant Vanishes in Japanese.
I’ve read maybe 6 or 7 pages of the story “眠り/ Sleep” so far. [...]
JLPT Preliminary Results
Copies of the JLPT (and the answers) have very quickly found there way online, so now I have a pretty good idea how I scored on the test. I wrote out my answers as best I could remember and scored the test. I’m right on the borderline There were a few problems where I didn’t [...]
One week away…
The JLPT test is one week away. This year I’m going to be taking the Level 2 test and I really need to study some more for it. However, I have an editing job that is due on Tuesday, so I probably won’t have too much time to study tonight or on Monday. My Anki [...]
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