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Studying This Here Kanji Again

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No, I haven’t decided to take the JLPT1 at this point, but I have been hitting the kanji again, many months after my successful clearing of the JLPT2.

In reviewing my flashcards, I’m actually sort of amazed I was able to retain so much. While a lot of times the knowledge will be incomplete (I’ll remember an On reading but not a Kun reading or vice versa), it’s still there in parts. The human mind is an amazing thing, and in a way it’s given me further motivation to keep up my independent Japanese studies, as I know that further progress is still very much possible.

One area I feel I lack in which concerns me is a proper understanding of Japanese culture, and how to read certain situations and then speak the language accordingly. Put me into a raw Japanese business setting, and even with my Business-Level Japanese, I’ll flounder because I’ve never studied about Japanese corporate settings.

You’re Looking at a Man with BUSINESS – LEVEL Japanese

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Seriously

Test results for the JLPT came in yesterday.

I passed, barely.

But I still passed!

What this says to me is that I did just the right amount of hard work, not so much that it took away from other activities, but not so little that I couldn’t make it. In a way, I’m lucky, but I also know that those months of reading little kanji cards on the train and studying with friends was validated.

And I thank you all for letting me talk about my trials and tribulations of learning Japanese, and not asking me to just talk more about anime.

I guess for now the jlpt category will lay dormant, unless I am insane enough to go for the level 1.

Maybe I am. Who knows?