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[unsung]

How did you do on the JLPT?

[Brooks]

I took the sankyu yesterday at Todai.
I think I passed.
Vocab was the toughest part (many words I did not know).

[craven]

I took 1kyu...and more or less just made pretty pictures filling in the scan sheet with random black dots. It kicked my ass...interesting experience though

[seanmcginty]

I passed the 2kyuu in Kobe two years ago. I've been procrastinating going for the 1kyuu, it'll probably never happen. Hope everybody did well who took it.

[Rorschach]

I took the 3 kyuu. I think I did well, I understood almost everything. I hope to go for 2 kyuu next December but it will probably end up more like the year after next. I (and most others, including Japanese people) can only dream of taking 1 kyuu.

[unsung]

I took the 3rd Q.

it was out at Osaka Univeristy. What a beautifful campus. There was trees and other things.

At any rate, I took the test. It was kinda funny to see who came late. It was ALWAYS the white dude. But, (and I am saying this to make you white guys feel better), the person who broke the no-cell phone rule was an Asian.

The 3rd level was easy and hard. Listening is always hard for me. I try to practice it a lot. One thing that makes listening difficult, is that as a native speaker people are always quick to translate for you if you don't understand.

The last part was easier than I expected. It was about a festival, where people jumped in the river, ran up to the top of the mountain and then partied like it was 1995.

I hope I pass this and prepare myself for level 2. Level 2 looks so impossible from where I am at right now. Being able to have such a fluid speaking ability seems so amazing. AH, since I have no girlfriend though, I'm sure I will find the study time...

[seanmcginty]

[Zzonkmiles]

I took the 2-kyu test this year. It was HARD. For me, the kanji/vocab section wasn't so bad. I'm sure I passed that section. The listening section was much trickier than last year's. And the reading/grammar section was a nightmare. One of the reading passages was the same one that was also used on the 1-kyu test this year too. I can't confidently say whether I passed or failed, so it's going to be a long wait until February. But regardless of how I do on 2-kyu this time around, I'm going to take 1-kyu next year.

[seanmcginty]

[sanadamushi]

Hidey Ho,

I took 2kyu in Chicago, I had been using the practice books and felt like they were right on the money, I was kicking myself for seeing a lot of stuff I knew I had studied, but had no command of as it turned out. The third part felt like taking the verbal of my GRE in Japanese. I'll get 'er next year. BTW, is it just me or has Japanese studies been completely overtaken by the anime-crowd?

[JaredW]

I took the 3 kyu in SFO but am wondering, why don't they make it so that anyone can take the test more often than just once a year?

[wintersweet]

sanadamushi, it's not just you noticing that--I read stats earlier this year about the shift in the reasons American college students study Japanese. 10 years ago, ihe most commonly cited reason was business. Now it's anime/manga.[/list]

[Rorschach]

[cornishmuppet]

I did the 3kyu. Pretty hard, not too bad.

A phone went off in mine, during the listening test. Belonged to a Filipino guy, and the invigilators did nothing other than look scared. I completely lost two questions because of it, and at the end of the test a whole bunch of the guy's mates started protesting to the invigilators. 'Wasurimashita, wasurimashita,' over and over, and they basically did nothing. What was funny was they went through the whole rigamarole of the red/yellow cards at the beginning of the next test, too.

If I fail by two points I'll be seriously mad about this.

chris

[cornishmuppet]

I noticed the beeps put into my post. Since when has wasurimashita been a swear word?