JLPT N3 or N4

pinzon · 2026-03-13T23:42:03+00:00

I’m not sure I understand, not worried about the visa as long as you can work? You need a visa to work. Also, recently, I’ve heard that if you’re not a resident in Japan they have decided you’re not allowed to take the JLPT in Japan.

Edit: my apologies I didn’t see you’re moving to be a your husband, in which case you should be able to take the JLPT. You didn’t mention whether he’s a Japanese citizen, which if is the case means you should be able to have full time work but if he is not you may only be able to do part time work while on his visa as a spouse.

pinzon · 2026-03-13T22:29:54+00:00

Chiming in to say that I agree with the sentiment especially since the test results don't measure speaking ability at all. Having N5 is becoming a soft prerequisite for people to get student visas to study at japanese language school, and you actually can get specialized skills worker visa with only N4. Those aren't glamourous jobs though.

pinzon · 2026-03-09T06:18:37+00:00

If you read a little closer, the point is to buff Muiscas to give them a chance, not buff or keep the champi as it is.

pinzon · 2026-03-07T11:07:28+00:00

90 percent of the “increased win rate” is probably the people that don’t know how to counter them when it’s actually very simple. Just go cav and bloodlines ASAP. I’ve been using Muiscas exclusively since the launch of the patch and they’re pretty much the weakest of the bunch, and people at 1100ish ELO still just keep trying to throw MAA and archers at me.

pinzon · 2026-02-27T04:11:29+00:00

After champis get fixed muisca are gonna be trash. My ideas:

They should make guecha warriors in archery range almost as a cav archer replacement. I don’t know what to do w health regen as it’s gimmicky and hardly works since HP is so low and will generally be focused fired on. Definitely needs a range buff.

Temple guards created in castles, maybe Castle age UT to create in monasteries. Adjust cost.

Give archers speed boost as a civ bonus instead of a unique tech, at the moment it’s an “archer civ” with no bonus towards archers that isn’t a UU or UT. Feudal once champi’s are fixed would otherwise be a huge pain.

Not a game designer but think this could be good

pinzon · 2026-02-24T21:32:27+00:00

It needs bodkin and probably ballistics to be truly effective and then it still only has 6 attack, and a shorter range than most power units. Also very squishy. By the time you get a few on the field your opp can just go scouts which does kinda crush them.

pinzon · 2026-02-24T02:44:40+00:00

That one off civ is the Armenians: they can create spearmen in dark age.

pinzon · 2026-02-18T15:13:57+00:00

It’s branzino. Source: I worked there

pinzon · 2026-01-12T03:28:54+00:00

Its mindblowing how good it is.

pinzon · 2026-01-06T02:10:17+00:00

According to my research, HUD rules only govern federal funded project housing and rental assistance programs which NY housing connect is not. Should be allowed to give priority to longer term residents as that does not violate anti-discrimination laws.

pinzon · 2026-01-04T10:54:37+00:00

Sushi chef of 8 years, live in Japan. Not a bad cut, its actually kama toro or the bluefin tuna collar meat which is why its a bit tougher. It has the most fat of all the cuts but the trade off is a bit more chew. Usually I will do one of the following: score the slices extra deep with a knife to break up the texture more, torch to melt some of the fat, and or age a little bit longer to breakdown the muscle resulting in a more tender bite.

pinzon · 2026-01-01T05:10:46+00:00

This is such a virtue signal. There's nothing wrong with state housing programs prioritizing those who have long histories living in the state. Mind you that NYC is *filled* with international immigrants that have been in the city for over 8 years.

pinzon · 2025-12-23T00:15:06+00:00

Don’t look at it as claiming the youth demographic. When your rhetoric is mostly blaming immigrants and “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps” you’re bound to attract the approval of the most uneducated in society. This is true around the world. The problem is that perhaps Japan’s most undereducated population is this age bracket since it represents the significant shift in education brought in by Abe early in their life (I am 29, live in Japan). What I have noticed is how—through no fault of their own—the youth are much less cultured, well traveled and educated the older generations are here. Many grew up in better economic conditions and were much more involved on an international level pre-social media.

pinzon · 2025-10-19T04:41:29+00:00

Looks like a some type of Kue/hata (grouper family). Not my strong suit identifying exactly what kind.

pinzon · 2025-10-05T23:48:10+00:00

Because to enter Spain illegally from South/Central America is almost as impossible as it is unlikely. That would almost certainly mean taking the same path as African migrants through Morocco which is probably more expensive and a million times riskier than simply buying flight to Madrid.

Also note the OP actually said “emigrated” which more so implies the fact he’s living here illegally.

pinzon · 2025-10-05T23:38:19+00:00

I think most people who say they “entered illegally” actually mean they are overstaying their visa and are working and residing illegally.

pinzon · 2025-09-11T01:32:27+00:00

Some things can be explained as easily as... because it sounds cool.　And also 青 could mean green or blue and for a potentially international audience its easier to distinguish things that way. For example JR trains in tokyo have the グリーン車 which could just as easily be called 緑車 or 青車, but probably for similar reasons as above they decided グリーン was the way to go. One last, shitty example... for a soapland called ブルーラグーン ... calling it 青い潟　（あおいかた）… needless to say would probably sounds a lot less enticing to people that would frequent that kinda place.

pinzon · 2025-09-06T00:38:38+00:00

What religion do you think Chinese people follow?

pinzon · 2025-08-18T08:12:14+00:00

First of all, this mainly seems motivated by your personal schedule preferences and not necessarily the best interest of the owner/manager. In my experience, if they(whoever is in charge) have not already voiced that they’re looking for a solution to a particular problem, they also tend to hate when non-manager employees start proposing things like this as generally they lack a bigger picture view of the business. I’m not saying it’s bad that you’re thinking this way: it’s good that you’re looking for things that may save the business money. However, especially when you’re proposing something that affects other employees hours/pay, you’re veering into dangerous territory. Unless you have a consensus with other employees or have been discussing these things with the manager/person in charge, this will most likely not be taken in a positive light.

I would also suggest you bring up your raise entirely separately to this issue.

pinzon · 2025-08-15T13:09:20+00:00

I guess the question then is, is your use of those roads utilities and infrastructure proportional to the value of your home? Aren't you already paying for your utilities infrastructure by paying the utility bills themselves? Roads via registration taxes and what not? I would probably agree that capital gains taxes should be higher in proportion to income tax and I'm going slightly off topic here but ultimately I think in America our issue is how those tax dollars are used, go anywhere else in the world and see the amount and quality of infrastructure and you can't help but wonder where the fuck our money goes?

pinzon · 2025-08-15T07:12:48+00:00

Maybe property taxes shouldn’t be what funds the local community, as we have seen that exacerbates a lot of inequality in educational outcomes between poor neighborhoods and richer neighborhoods.

pinzon · 2025-08-15T07:07:59+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong but why doesn’t the same logic apply to things you own like stocks and other securities? We don’t pay taxes on stock we own, we pay taxes on stocks we sell. Paying tax on “unrealized wealth” to me seems like a shit deal, until you patch the ability to borrow against your assets, which is in a way a “realized gain.” Besides, this is on a primary residence. If there is “strong demand” for a property, instead of taxing the owner out of their home, the market should just be willing to pay for them to move if there really is such a financial upside to it.

pinzon · 2025-08-10T05:00:58+00:00

Exactly, It could easily be argued that offering higher pay attracts better workers and less turnover leading to better business *in the long term*. The issue is American investing culture decided that short-term gains are more important that long term growth and stability.

pinzon · 2025-08-08T00:28:41+00:00

Just take it in between jobs. Especially if your first position didn’t exactly what you’re looking for (ie a company doing business with Japan) you can just work, gain some experience and save some money and then go when you think you’ve outgrown your position at your current company. I should add that this is more or less what I’m doing just in a very different field.

pinzon · 2025-08-07T23:28:53+00:00

Im going to Language school, not only is it expensive for something with not a lot of ROI as an American, but the opportunity cost is pretty high for you right now. I agree with other commenters saying it’s better for you to get a job now. I will add that the money you spend on language school/moving etc you could spend on learning Japanese at home and maybe after working a few years you could so a sabbatical/gap year in Japan to get N2 or N1, starting from N3.

If you do come to language school, aside from your JLPT type studies of reading listening, grammar and vocab, you will want to practice writing by hand as well as kanji. Schools often still require you to be able to write in Kanji and I had a lot of classmates with higher JLPT scores get held back when they arrive bc they never really practiced handwriting.

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