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Just took the JETRO business Japanese test yesterday.

 

Thought it was as much a test of gaman (2.5 hours with no food, drink, or bathroom breaks) and concentration than it was of Japanese, though.

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Results are sent out mid-August. I don't know how it used to be, but now, only those scoring level 1 and 1+ are given the interview part 6 mo's later. December, maybe.

 

Would've preferred to take the JLPT, but it was all a question of timing.

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I thought that no employer believed you are fluent in Japanese even if you speak to them fluently in Japanese.

 

There's this one guy in my office who seems to refuse to believe my good British friend (who can speak excellent Japanese) can speak any Japanese. He's one of those who automatically looks to a Japanese colleague with a rather rude "eh"? in for measure. I can understand it with my Japanese maybe, but.....

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well, we're coming up to the final weekend of studying!

Are you guys madly learning kanji or what?

 

I just wrote last year's test - got 86% but took an extra 30mins to write it...so that doesn't really count \:\( damn essay questions

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