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Google makes me worry
I lost the URL for the book list for the 日本語能力試験 (the Japanese Language Proficiency Test - I wonder if that Japanese text will even come out), so I searched on google and found all of these pages abotu the test, complete with percentages of how many people pass every year, etc. It seems that the test I am taking, the san-kyuu (Level 3), gets passed by about 35% of people taking it outside Japan. I hope I read that page wrong. I mean, you only need to get 60% of the stuff right to pass, and... ugh. And we only have like a month left to study, really. I really want to pass, so my studying Japanese at CMU will at least culminate in something. I started too late to earn a minor, so this will have to do. Assuming I pass.
The good thing is, I found a great site to study kanji on. Now I just need to get a hold of the general study guides for the test.. tonight I'll sit down on amazon.co.jp and type in some ISBNs and see what I come up with. The other great thing is, I seem to know 90% of the kanji for Level 3... I just need to brush up on a few and learn the few that I don't know. I feel bad for Carl and Oren - it seems you need to know like five times as many for the Level 2 test.
The other bad thing is, the listening section will probably kill me. I'm not sure how to study for that. I have my tapes from Japanese classes at CMU, and Carl is getting Level 2 CDs, so maybe those will help. I dunno.
The good thing is, I found a great site to study kanji on. Now I just need to get a hold of the general study guides for the test.. tonight I'll sit down on amazon.co.jp and type in some ISBNs and see what I come up with. The other great thing is, I seem to know 90% of the kanji for Level 3... I just need to brush up on a few and learn the few that I don't know. I feel bad for Carl and Oren - it seems you need to know like five times as many for the Level 2 test.
The other bad thing is, the listening section will probably kill me. I'm not sure how to study for that. I have my tapes from Japanese classes at CMU, and Carl is getting Level 2 CDs, so maybe those will help. I dunno.
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