I am afraid I know very little about this, but would love to start taking the tests. I want to start at level 10 and work my way up.
Sorry for my ignorance, but how does one register for these tests?
There's a topic on the next page that says it's available in other countries, although the linked page is too high a level Japanese for me (and Chrome's translation utility is about as reliable as ever).
I'm really keen to take this, even though I'm a low level. Am currently printing out and running through the last available test of each level so I can see which I can take. And I can take it at work (I teach at a high school)?! And it's only 1,000 - 1,500 yen?! (also add that the fact that doing it at work shows I am working hard to learn Japanese and gets me brownie points) Just not sure if they can give all levels here. Obviously I am not on the same level as my high school students, so a little embarrassing to go in the same room and be working on something meant for elementary school students.
Nothing embarrassing about that! I started really low..like level 9, and there were kids 20+ years younger than me. Enjoy it - see how many you can make eye contact with before the test and wave to them!
yup, you can totally take it at a school. I did at my middle schools and when I was taking a lower level that nobody else took, they just put me in the principal's office (with no supervision! :O ) I find its easier to go through a school's registration, plus if they do put you with the students you'll get very impressed looks from them ;)
yup, you can totally take it at a school. I did at my middle schools and when I was taking a lower level that nobody else took, they just put me in the principal's office (with no supervision! :O ) I find its easier to go through a school's registration, plus if they do put you with the students you'll get very impressed looks from them ;)
yup, you can totally take it at a school. I did at my middle schools and when I was taking a lower level that nobody else took, they just put me in the principal's office (with no supervision! :O ) I find its easier to go through a school's registration, plus if they do put you with the students you'll get very impressed looks from them ;)
After doing it today, 10 and 9 are no problem, 8 is kinda... eh... so really, that's what I should be going for, just means a lot of work. I could go a lot further if it were just questions about stroke order or whether the end has a straight edge or curved, after doing those for a bit on the DS game, it seems easy enough, even on kanji I haven't studied before.
Hopefully I'll pass N1 in December and will need a new goal. I was looking at the KanKen levels and the first part was no problem up to level 3 or so, but writing the kanji by hand... :( :( ??? ??? :-[ :( :o :(
...I'd never pass.
I'm moving back to Japan at the end of the year and this seems like a great way to get me into writing kanji by hand again and my co-workers won't have to suffer handwritten notes written 90% in hiragana. Should also improve my horrible handwriting in general.
I was thinking about starting around level 4 or 5, does that seem like a good starting point for someone around N1 level who has to really practice her handwriting but is pretty good at all the other bits? :-[
Also, happened to come across the [url=http://www.kanken.or.jp/bjt/index.html]Business Japanese Proficiency Exam [/url]when I was looking into kanken. I had never heard of it before but has anyone here tried it before? It's administered by the same people who do kanken it seems...
I know some people who've taken the BJPE, mostly to get jobs in the business sector in Japan. I think it certainly has its uses, but that's not my goal for studying Japanese so I haven't taken it myself.
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I'll bet it's great practice for honorific speech.
Blech. As it is my Japanese is not recognizable to my students sometimes - or just odd - because I use too high a keigo - never wanted to learn the casual but now I have to. :P
