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he watches for the plot
harrowing victim of imperialist soft-power!
it’s actually imperialist hard power
hard for a few minutes, then soft power.
The JLPT is pretty heavily weighted towards reading and listening than anything else, you can be functionally incapable of seriously using the language and still pass N2 if you can read. There are zero long-form questions, it’s entirely multiple choice and there’s no oral component. The listening section is all stuff like
Your coworker Tanaka asks “where are the black pens?” How do you respond?
- Goodbye.
- In the desk.
- In the hospital.
- Give me the pen.
Which isn’t to say that mere gooning alone would pass N2 by any means, this guy was gooning with purpose. But it’s less useful than it sounds.
Your coworker Tanaka asks “where are the black pens?” How do you respond?
Goodbye.Me whenever someone asks me something at work.
I can almost see it if you start with Chinese since you know all the Hanzi/Kanji. I can accept that you eventually get a grip on the sentence structure. But the conjugation? The vocabulary? You could probably say things are warm, big, and intense. You’d know all the family members, a lot of anatomy, and a couple different types of buildings.
You would never be able to hear the word kimochii. Every time someone asks you how you are - really every 5th word you hear would sound like an innuendo.
Japanese kanji are pretty different from hanzi, even if you’re coming from traditional hanzi. They also have multiple readings which make it a pain to learn lol
Japanese kanji are pretty different from hanzi
No, they are extremely similar. It’s the same system. The hardest hurdle for speakers of other languages is getting used to a different type of word recognition, which Chinese speakers do not have to do. Even the ones that have been simplified differently are very recognizable with a tiny amount of exposure. And the multiple reading thing is way overstated. I usually just see it used as an excuse for not actually reading or listening to the language.
We have our thesis and our antithesis, now for the synthesis: kanji and hanzi are simultaneously more and less similar than you think
Quantum linguistics
N2 is like the proficiency you need in a professional setting lol
Seems like N2 is essentially fluent in both reading and writing as well as conversation.
I refuse to believe you can become that fluent from watching porno because otherwise it has implications for how dumb I am
I just want to imagine the porno has really intricate plots about salarymen and OLs or something
Even then, N2 seems hard to get. Wikipedia says only like 1 in 5 people pass the test. Bro must have been taking notes lol
N2 is a pretty remarkable accomplishment fr
It probably says more about the methods you are using. Mass amounts of input are the best way to learn a language, so if you’re doing something else, like textbooks, it’s going to take you a lot longer.
Mass amounts of input
Ahem
IIRC for N2 you only need to know around half of the regular use kanji, and even passing N1 doesn’t necessarily mean that you can hold a conversation in Japanese.
How is this young man watching porno when sex is banned in China? He’s going to get executed.
this is what he did during his bid in the jordan peterson cock milking jail
honestly fluent in 4000 hentai videos is super impressive considering that’s not really that many videos to learn a whole language from and the limited scope of things they must talk about in hentai
I was just considering that already having all the hanzi in your wheelhouse would help a lot. If it’s just N2 for reading writing and not speaking you’d get an outsized advantage to how our baka gaijin minds operate. That’s at least, the thesis of Remembering the Kanji.
