Good Japanese, Bad Japanese
So I got my JLPT results today:
Vocabulary/Kanji: 73 out of 100
Listening: 81 out of 100
Reading/Grammar: 133 out of 200
Final result is that I passed lv 2. The above results are a bit surprising, I was pretty sure that I would go better in Vocabulary/Kanji than the other two parts of the test. Also, the result for the reading grammar test is strange, given that I didn’t answer about 25% of the test due to the time. Unless they normalize for unanswered questions, which is unlikely, it means that I got about 90% right in it, which I do not believe.
Anyway, according to the certificate I recieved, I now “Know about 1000 kanji and 6000 words, and has the ability of converse, read and write about matters of a general nature”. I seriously doubt that, specially the 1000 kanji and 6000 word part, but such is the nature of proficience tests. It is good to know that I passed it without studying at all, though (for the test, I mean).
I should be proud about my japanese, but I really ain’t. Yesterday I had an “examination” which was much more real and much more accurate of my current level. I had to write about half a page about my research activities in the last year for a semi-official report to the international office in Tokyo university.
Now I realize I’ve been really slacking off in my regular japanese study schedule, for I couldn’t get coherent words to form in those 4 paragraphs, and i could only cringe at the final result. While I get plenty of chances to practice japanese dialogue with the folks in the lab, and write/read quite my share of short e-mails in japanese, I see that I’m missing on the practice of writing anything longer than a paragraph. Time to catch up.
After I finish my 16 item long todo list -_-…
Cheers, and I promise pictures for next post!
February 13th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Congrats! Level 2 is considered pretty tough. And your Japanese is much better than that of many others.
For me, I dream of writing a one-page paper in Japanese to the IEICE 2006 confernce (this is the only one I know that allows a 1-page paper. Anything longer than that will be too ambitious.
February 13th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Congrats! Level 2 is considered pretty tough. And your Japanese is much better than that of many others.
For me, I dream of writing a one-page paper in Japanese to the IEICE 2007 confernce (this is the only one I know that allows a 1-page paper. Anything longer than that will be too ambitious.
February 14th, 2006 at 1:12 am
meus parabéns, tchongo
sabia que passaria 
lembre-se que sou eu que tenho a bola de cristal e não vc…
deveria me ouvir mais e duvidar menos de minhas palavras
bjs
February 14th, 2006 at 9:46 am
parabens lalo! e nao seja tao exigente consigo mesmo!!!
February 14th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Eh… eu tambem acho que esses testes nao necessariamente mostram o nivel real de japones de uma pessoa. Exemplos faceis sao pessoas que estudam intensivamente pro JPLT e passam, mas nao conseguem desenvolver nada com a lingua (eu antes de vir pro Japao) ou pessoas que se desesperam em testes, apesar de ter certa fluencia na lingua.
Por essas e outras eu nao concordo muito com uma certa fixacao que vejo aqui com os testes de ingles (eiken e toeic geralmente)… Prefiro ver a proficiencia como o nivel em que a pessoa eh capaz de se comunicar naquela lingua… Mas eh como a vestibular, medicoes sao necessarias, apesar de nem sempre justas.
De qualquer forma, parabens por ter passado no nivel 2… e ainda sem estudar! Em ultimo caso, se vc preferir nao atribuir isso ao seu nivel de japones (embora eu ache que ele tem um papel importante na historia), atribua a sua capacidade de “chutometro”…
February 14th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Urayamashii~~~
Haah I hope I can pass my ikkyu…
February 15th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Omedetou !!
Caramba,… sem estudar foi muuuito bem !!
Bjos
Shi
February 15th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
おめでとう、
頑張った。お疲れ様でした。
Parabens!!!
Ta podendo, hein mestre… Sem estudar?!?! Genio eh assim mesmo ;-). E deixa de ser modesto que o seu nivel de japones eh muito bom… Voce tem o nivel e pronto!! Talvez seja falta de pratica de escrever, coisa que eu tambem sinto falta. E com essa historia de celular que prediz o que vc vai escrever e o computador que advinha o kanji, a gente acaba aprendendo e praticando menos!!!
Beijos, ate o ikkyu deste ano!!