Category Archives: Japanese

Ask Ryan: Going Monolingual and Trusting Yourself

By Ryan | Published: August 9, 2010
Today we have an e-mail from Alan, who has managed to get through what I think is the hardest part of learning Japanese: kanji.  Now Alan is kind of worried about where to go from here.  Here’s what he writes: Ryan, I’d be a liar if I claimed to be a long-term reader of your blog- I [...]
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A Confession on the New JLPT

By Ryan | Published: July 5, 2010
Many of you were wondering.  Now you will know. I went with a couple of friends and colleagues yesterday to take the new JLPT (N1).  Many long-time readers of the blog will know that I am not very fond of this kind of assessment because of the way people single-mindedly set their sights on the test [...]
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