Taking the Japanese Placement Test
Mistakes Are Bound To Happen
Being here in Japan has for the past two weeks have been an amazing experience so far for me. I have met amazing individuals that have helped me settle in as I begin to live here for next year or so. With the help of the faculty, I have managed to find a place to live, buy a couple of necessities that I will be using throughout my stay. I also managed to be able to get to know my roommates in the dorms as well as speak in Japanese to acquaintance myself to everyone. I somewhat feel really "smart" because of my ability to speak Japanese. Or so I thought. A couple of days ago, the faculty, which also happens to be my counselor, recommended me to take a placement test to be able to see where I am in terms of my Japanese reading and writing skills. I thought I was going to do really well but actually bombed the test.
My biggest failure I have not experienced since sophomore year of college; I did really poorly on both the comprehensive and kanji test. Honestly, I did not think much of it at first, but later I began to feel really discouraged and irritated because of the amount of things I had yet to learn and the gap between how little I knew compared to everyone else. Even before this exam, I began to see how difficult Japanese truly was because of others speaking abilities and native speakers speaking sentence that I had no idea meant. I however have always been someone who enjoys a challenge and I believe this a great opportunity to see how much I can improve over the next following months. I consider this my wake-up call to realize that I still have room to improve and see how much I can accomplish. Since this will be something I will be covering later as I progress, I will make sure to keep you all updated on my progress. Consider this my pre-progression analysis. That is everything I have for today, I have a lot to prepare to begin this road to perfecting Japanese. I will talk to you all later!!!