Japanese -- from zero to C2? (Specific Languages) Language Learning Forum

Japanese -- from zero to C2?
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, German^C1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian	Message 1 of 4 03 March 2010 at 4:38am \| IP Logged
	I've been studying Japanese for 18 months and I'm B1 in reading/writing and B2 in oral. In day to day conversation, I can be quite fluent. I don't live in Japan, but I do have a few native speaker friends. When I started, my goal was to reach C2 in 5 years. I'm a translator (English and French) and I intend to translate from Japanese as well at that point. Out of curiosity, if you reached C2 in Japanese, how long did it take you? Edited by Arekkusu on 03 March 2010 at 4:39am 1 person has voted this message useful
starst Triglot Senior Member China Joined 5513 days ago 113 posts - 133 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, Japanese, English^C2 Studies: French^C1, German, Norwegian	Message 2 of 4 03 March 2010 at 12:05pm \| IP Logged
	Which exams do you consider as the C2 level? JLPT level 1? It is much easier to pass than DALF C2 of, say, French. 1 person has voted this message useful
Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, German^C1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian	Message 3 of 4 03 March 2010 at 1:15pm \| IP Logged
	In all honesty, I said C2 because it was the highest level on this chart: http://www.ema.europa.eu/pdfs/general/admin/recruit/trainees /Language_skills_self_assessm ent.pdf Truth is, I need to feel comfortable enough as a professional translator to be able to do my job right. "Good enough" or "I passed this exam so I must be good" just won't cut it. So I'm guessing what I'm aiming for is higher than JLPT1. 1 person has voted this message useful

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