zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4602 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 1 of 11 24 December 2012 at 8:56am | IP Logged |
I remember a while back, there was a discussion going on about proficiency tests and a site was given that included
mainly european languages, and didn't include japanese... well I found a japanese quiz here that gives some general
idea...
http://www.transparent.com/learn-
japanese/proficiency-test.html
for the record, I scored 55/150 or 37%
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Oshirigakusai Super Polyglot Newbie Syrian Arab Republic Joined 5505 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: GermanC2, RussianB2, Mandarin, Korean, FinnishC2, SwedishB1, DanishB2, NorwegianB1, Icelandic, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian Studies: English, Polish, Ukrainian, Faroese Studies: Old English
| Message 2 of 11 24 December 2012 at 10:24am | IP Logged |
I think that the main purpose of “Transparent Language” is very interesting; however, it
is difficult to evaluate most of Japanese students since they learn and use other writing
system such as kanji, hiragana and katakana, but not Romanized system.
I would have tried the test because I am curious how difficult it is and compare with
other tests that are more popular such as JLPT.
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clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5180 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 3 of 11 24 December 2012 at 12:23pm | IP Logged |
Merry CHristmas!
Japanese Proficiency Test
You scored 128 points out of 150.
You are at the Advanced Beginner level.
Your score = 85%
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Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5768 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 4 of 11 24 December 2012 at 4:40pm | IP Logged |
They wrote 建荊 instead of 建前. 'nuff said.
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stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4875 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish
| Message 5 of 11 24 December 2012 at 7:58pm | IP Logged |
If they are testing Japanese proficiency, they should use the proper writing systems
and not latinised Japanese...
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zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4602 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 6 of 11 24 December 2012 at 9:48pm | IP Logged |
I just assumed that the romanized was meant to test words you can hear but not read in japanese, and they did use
normal text toward the end, but anyway, you cant get a certificate from this test so theres no need to take it that
seriously... it still put clumsy miles ahead of me, so I think it put things in relative perspective
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cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6127 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish
| Message 7 of 11 25 December 2012 at 1:08am | IP Logged |
Hmm, I scored 93/150 -- beginner level. Yeah, 建荊, what the heck? Ugh, and the Romanized Japanese, I have to read and stop and puzzle it out in my brain.
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clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5180 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 8 of 11 26 December 2012 at 1:56pm | IP Logged |
Well, yes it's hard to get used to Japanese written like this :(
And moreover.... a beginner?!
after 5 years of study!?
http://www.e-japanese.jp/
there is another one.
Based on JLPT.
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