Japanese Language Proficiency Test

[AliBabaIncorporated]

So in 69 hours, I'm gonna get the living hell beaten out of me. Anyone have any advice on how to make it less painful? I really wanna pass this thing. (Apparently, I'm the only undergraduate student from my university in the US even attempting the JLPT ... whereas every 3rd year Japanese Studies student here in HK takes the damn thing and passes it with like an 85%. Worthless American language pedagogy. <_< )

[BeTheReds]

Nihongo noryoku shiken ikkyu? DAMN!

Well good luck. I'm nowhere near ready to pass that.

Chinese people pass it with ease, becaue Kanji is like more than 1/2 the test. That's my weakness, because I don't know enough kanji.

Only one person from my college ever passed it while in college, and he was a Japanese-American who had gone to J-school as a child.

I hope you pass.

The reason why students in the USA suck at it tho is not because of the way it is taught, but because of Kanji.

[AliBabaIncorporated]

Originally posted by BeTheReds@Nov 28 2002, 12:45 PM
Nihongo noryoku shiken ikkyu? DAMN!

Well good luck. I'm nowhere near ready to pass that.

Chinese people pass it with ease, becaue Kanji is like more than 1/2 the test. That's my weakness, because I don't know enough kanji.

Only one person from my college ever passed it while in college, and he was a Japanese-American who had gone to J-school as a child.

I hope you pass.

The reason why students in the USA suck at it tho is not because of the way it is taught, but because of Kanji.
Yup, ikkyu. I alternate between thinking I'll be fine and thinking there's no way I'm possibly gonna pass. Listening section, I should be able to squeeze by. Reading comprehension, I'll be fine. Vocabulary and grammar will be a long kick to a sensitive spot. I have trouble remembering kunyomi for kanji, which is a big part of the vocabulary section and a major reason why Chinese people, who easily score like 90% on the reading section, are still known to fail the test.

Though looking at the past papers, they seem to be decreasing the amount of kanji on the reading section. From '93 to '01 there's a noticeable drop in the difficulty level of the kanji (but not of the sentences themselves ... which for me is probably bad news). I'm not sure whether it's intentional or what ...

[AliBabaIncorporated]

Anyone out there can help me make example sentences with "beku site?" :confused: and explain the usage a bit better?

E.g. "kareha goukaku subekusite, goukaku sita."

I am bit confused about it, and Googling it to try to get examples of usage returned me a grand total of three results (http://www.google.com/search?hl=zh-TW&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%E3%81%B9%E3%81%8F%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6&btnG=Google%E6%90%9C%E5%B0%8B&lr=), none of which were in Japanese. This already makes me really suspicious. Though one of the results (http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:y47vErSKhGcC:japanese.jikx.com/display.asp%3Fpage%3D55+%E3%81%B9%E3%81%8F%E3%81%9 7%E3%81%A6&hl=zh-TW&ie=UTF-8) is of a Chinese guy giving an explanation (though I'm a bit suspicious of it), and another result is a Korean website which has the example sentence I gave above. gggggaah :angry:

Thank you in advance! :)

[luv]

Good luck!

[Chris]

Gambette Kudasai!!! Yeah My Friends in HK that are Chinese pass it with such ease because they all know how to write thus Kanji was no problem to any of them. If I don't rememebr the on/kun yomi I have my Kanji to fall back on. That how I manage to get B's in my classes. Anshin ne! You do well!

[AliBabaIncorporated]

Originally posted by luv@Nov 29 2002, 01:32 AM
Good luck!
thanks :) . luck is what I need, since "proficiency" definitely isn't gonna save me now. Oh well, enough :nerd: , back to staring at the book :confused:

[AliBabaIncorporated]

i should have been studying. instead I'm buzzing. dangit, my friends are such a bad influence.