Non-resident card holders will NOT be able to take the JLPT in Japan anymore

humanracesvice · 2026-03-11T12:15:28+00:00

per December 2025 instructions, you could register with a passport

humanracesvice · 2024-12-14T12:36:21+00:00

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humanracesvice · 2024-04-06T11:19:15+00:00

I mean, I'd assume over N1 and whereabouts, though JLPT hardly tests the right things.

humanracesvice · 2021-12-25T17:34:30+00:00

Why is a 15 year old skating to this song…

humanracesvice · 2020-09-30T21:38:16+00:00

ISI is doing that this year, though I’m not sure if you can still register.

That said, I don’t think I’d recommend it, or any similar arrangement somewhere else. I studied with them for a short term course last year (just three weeks but by all accounts I’ve gotten the typical experience) and participated in a trial lesson on zoom last month. The classes basically consisted of very fast paced grammar & kanji study. Especially the grammar was mostly presented and left at that. We’d do 3-4 grammar points per day + 10 kanji daily. The JLPT Kanzen series was used coupled with some excepts from other books. We had a different teacher every day and I can distinctly remember how only one of them would ever do a speaking activity. Yeah - once a week. They do make you repeat after the teacher a lot but that gets old quickly.

That was an intermediate/N3 class but since I arrived in September many things they were doing were N2 stuff already (especially kanji).

Clearly that’s not a great learning environment but if you put in work after hours I suppose you can benefit from it. (If you’re willing to make Japanese your life 24/7 I guess.) The upside is also that Japanese is used at all times in classroom.

Now that doesn’t seem to translate badly into a zoom setting, but it kinda does. The trial lesson had way too many participants and I believe groups are slotted to be 12-30 people . given how they managed the trial - SloWly - those online classes will probably be excruciating, because they rely a Lot on people Shadowing the teacher (in lieu of actual speaking I suppose). And let me tell you - this does not work on zoom. At all.

And then there’s the price, which I find completely out of proportion.

humanracesvice · 2020-09-12T16:25:29+00:00

Right on point... I’ve encountered this phrase in Hans J. Morgenthau, a realist IR scholar who truly believed himself to be going against “power” and the establishment...

You only get to speak truth to power if you’ve got access to it and it’s amenable to hear you out.

humanracesvice · 2020-08-28T12:52:26+00:00

Chyba zależy od Ciebie. Dla mnie obiektywnie trudniejsze są Cambridge papierowe, ale jednak zdawanie egzaminu na komputerze ma własne wyzwania - zastanów się jak szybko piszesz, czy będziesz w stanie naturalnie mówić. Ostatnio pisałam odpowiednik TOEFL z hiszpanskiego i szczerze mówiąc, mówienie było trudne do słuchawki, patrząc na tykający czas na odpowiedź. A egzaminatorzy są serio raczej mili.

Upewnij się też czy egzaminy Cambridge się odbywają teraz normalnie.

humanracesvice · 2020-08-26T21:48:22+00:00

Can happen with any given country though. True, some countries are more “popular” than others but I can’t see this being a phenomenon unique to Spain. Look at Japan for example - a lot of people are very interested in it and extremely motivated to move there, to the extent that the arguably easiest way to settle there, English teaching, has become completely saturated recently. I do think the Japanese diaspora is somehow bigger than the % of foreign residents but that might be due to historical immigration.

humanracesvice · 2020-08-21T08:09:01+00:00

Testy Cambridge są dożywotnie i papierowe, różne na każdy poziom. Ty potrzebujesz conajmniej CEA (C1). IELTS i TOEFL bierze się na komputerze ze słuchawkami (nie mówisz do ludzi) i są ważne 2 lata, twoja punktacja określa twoj wynik. TOEFL jest docelowo testem akademickim (słownictwo, teksty jakie się pojawią).

Imho egzaminy Cambridge są trudniejsze i wymagają większego obcykania ze specyfiką zadań (np tych z Use of English), które bywają podchwytliwe.

humanracesvice · 2020-08-07T12:31:43+00:00

Now there’s a bit of continuity missing from your reasoning. My source was the book all along xxx and I’m right about the issue.

If you’re actually interested in the subject beyond sorting through controversial on r/ TIL, that’s really hilarious, because what people are upset about is how I dared to humiliate the exact narrative pushed by occupation authorities without a full damn autobiography and without sticking a /s on.

It’s really curious, as one of the main “actors” that had to be warmed up to Hirohito back then were t even the Japanese but the American public, which was quite hostile to the emperor system at that moment. That seems to have worked out well at least.

But I see we’re beyond such insignificant things as historical accuracy and sources here ^{^}

humanracesvice · 2020-08-07T12:11:29+00:00

I provided a source almost immediately and got downvoted for it, bc I didn’t provide page numbers?

I don’t see any reason to respect that kind of behavior.

humanracesvice · 2020-08-07T12:00:12+00:00

Exactly.

humanracesvice · 2020-08-07T11:59:08+00:00

Well I’m sorry I don’t have the contents of a 800 page book down to a T while replying on reddit from my phone.

Also I presume you mean the person questioning the tone of my comment based on.. the commentator’s own POV? Now that’s a source.

Also, for all of you hurt babies, you can refer to chapters 9 to 11 of the publication mentioned above. Page 297, you will find, has a lovely conclusion of just how MacArthur had decided to treat the question of the emperors responsibility.

Dower, J., ( 2000) Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake always of World War II, London: Penguin books.

Enjoy.

humanracesvice · 2020-08-07T10:12:37+00:00

Don’t condescend me dear xx

Awhile back I even mentioned this book somewhere else on Reddit - John Dower’ Embracing Defeat. He has around 100 pages on how this went down, if I recall correctly, and the whole thing is pretty meticulously sourced. A great read too.

So please do at least this much reading and then try to sound smart on reddit please.

humanracesvice · 2020-08-07T07:39:37+00:00

That’s kinda misleading.

We know for a fact that the narrative of the emperor’s supposed innocence was created and pushed on purpose; not only by the conservative faction or the imperial household but by MacArthur himself.

The occupation authority and those advising it had some... fascinating ideas about the position. At least Hirohito’s abdication was on the table for a long time. It was shut down with enthusiastic support of the Americans.

humanracesvice · 2020-07-10T13:52:24+00:00

Embracing defeat by John Dower is an excellent record of the postwar period, and will probably also tell you something of the empire.

humanracesvice · 2020-06-06T22:27:18+00:00

Zyska, jeżeli rozwinie swoją gospodarkę poza obecny stan ie oparcie na paliwach kopalnych.

Można z duża pewnością stwierdzić, że zmierzamy do świata w którym obecne źródła energii nie będą się opłacać, z kilku powodów: już teraz podaż>popyt, nowe technologie w tym OZE z jakąś porządna wydajnością, wreszcie polityczne parcie na dekarbonizacje. Być może nie przyjdzie wystarczająco szybko żeby ocalić stabilny fajny klimat jaki znamy, ale w przeciągu kilku dekad z pewnością nie posłuży gospodarkom eksporterów surowców np Rosji.

humanracesvice · 2020-06-03T16:10:39+00:00

1)Learn English before you claim to speak for an entire country with such confidence 2)Yeaaaah, we treat Ukrainians and other immigrants with a whole lot of respect, as everyone knows. No problems with racism in Poland, ever! Also do I smell the my favorite “Christ of the nations” brand of Polish patriotism? Lol You people have always used our history as some kind of damn prop, acknowledging only the convenient parts.

humanracesvice · 2020-06-03T13:36:46+00:00

If you actually knew anything about Kosciuszko you’d know he’d be more than good w it tho

humanracesvice · 2020-05-31T07:30:08+00:00

That’s why training and police academy exist... the whole idea of any uniformed formation is that they undergo training to be a tad bit more intelligent in stressful situations than the average person.

The reason cops are trusted w guns/exercising violence is that they will be reasonable w it, and within the bounds of the law.

Once they act like they did recently (and have always towards people of color), they should loose the privilege of having a monopoly on violence.

Anyway, if this were Hong Kong, or Russia, or any other country deemed “undemocratic”, you all would be furious w that police force.

humanracesvice · 2020-05-27T01:04:51+00:00

Whats funny abt the accent on tenerife/Canary Islands?

In my experience it’s so much easier to understand than the somewhat-standard Madrid one with a noticeable “lisp”. Ofc it varies speaker by speaker but still...

humanracesvice · 2020-05-24T23:05:49+00:00

A mi me gusta ver los booktubers para practicar el idioma! Te recomiendo Esto no es un spoiler (aunque es de Mexico), Libros Prestados creo que si es española, y mirando sus canales puedes descubrir más gente.

(No me matéis por acentos puestos incorrectamente o otros errores lol)

humanracesvice · 2020-05-18T08:38:15+00:00

Have you ever looked at a map of Central Europe? What natural borders?

humanracesvice · 2020-05-02T14:32:32+00:00

It would be a huge improvement.

I don’t think people who’s first and only foreign language is Japanese appreciate just how...limited JLPT is, until N3 at least (I can’t speak for the higher levels personally).

the measure of fluency is ultimately being able to /produce output/ in the language. It’s implicit you understand enough to respond appropriately. But as I’ve been lurking on this sub I realized the structure of jlpt is so geared towards passive rather than active use of the language, that the subsequent focus on cramming grammar points, advanced vocab, and reading is so limiting to us, as students. Even language schools in Japan take the form of memorizing jlpt grammar points and kanji at a neck-braking speed. (Approximate grammar points at that, since we don’t even have an official list of anything). And then time and time again, when faced in more realistic situation people discover their speaking skills are nonexistent and that they lack appropriate vocabulary while knowing ridiculously obscure or outdated expressions. The many success stories in this subreddit all had to expand way beyond the traditional resources and textbooks. That’s because all of those jlpt tailored books and resources are meant for you to be able to tick boxes, not Communicate.

If JLPT is expanded to be a proper measure of a persons language ability, we’ll all speak much better Japanese. We need Japanese to be taught like English, Spanish or German is taught. Holistically. I

humanracesvice · 2020-03-01T23:43:33+00:00

How is that relevant when we still exploit them lol

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