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mous a task so 5 million people have lost their pensions because the officials cannot read and write kanji properly names are particularly difficult not that this excuses simply abandoning the accounts i m sure they would agree it s a small price to pay for such a beautiful language posted by james annan at sunday september 16 2007 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels japanese saturday june 09 2007 lost in translation attending japanese project meetings is often a bit frustrating to put it mildly part of this is due to them being in japanese so although i can get the gist of it these days especially with the help of the presentation i can t understand the nuance or contribute significantly to the discussion i could and occasionally did say something in english but it s hard to be sure that it hadn t already been covered adequately when the project is closely related to my own interests it s particularly frustrating but i have to just shrug and let them get on with it the quid pro quo is that they generally let me get on with what i want to do too this new project that i m involved in seems to have as its overall aim motivating the public to take action on climate change based on correct scientific information i d have been much happier if this had been written as supporting the decision making process through the best available science the official version sounds rather too much like instilling patriotism though a correct view of history which is what the j govt is trying to do through its censorship of history textbooks and the like in schools these days combine that with re writing their outdated constitution that currently forbids military aggression and it adds up to scary stuff for japan s neighbours but that s another story i m assured that in this case correct scientific information direct translation of 正しい科学的情報 really does just mean best available time will tell it s mildly amusing to play spot the loanword in japanese discussions of course all languages have borrowed words from others usually to describe new concepts that are not already adequately covered such as the french who as bush once famously didn t say were missing the word for entrepreneur of course a lot of japanese originally came from chinese but more recently there have been western imports such as erebeetaa elevator and bataa butter that presumably came together with these products jules and i noticed two loan words in particular that came up regularly in the discussion of the project plans management and communication i hope they catch on posted by james annan at saturday june 09 2007 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels climate science japan japanese tuesday march 27 2007 an ethical foreign policy some of the bureaucrats here really haven t got a clue this is another all too typical example of the sort of mindless box ticking mentality that dominates here the backstory to this is that a year ot two ago there was a minor scandal with some tokyo university professor being caught falsifying data fortunately it coincided with the south korean cloning thing so didn t attract much attention either at home or abroad still someone obviously considered it was important for all scientists to have a refresher course on research conduct so today this arrived in my mailbox edited highlights we will have a briefing session in the title above briefing session for frcgc rules for conduct in research activities all who are engaged in the research activities are required to attend the session please note the language used in the session will be japanese date and time friday march 30 2007 14 00 15 30 ok there will be an english language handout which is more than they have yet managed for the new employment system but really which genius thought it would be useful let alone important enought to make it compulsory for people to sit through some old fogey waffling on for a full 90 minutes in a language they don t understand of course once you understand the bureaucrat s mindset it makes perfect sense it s not important that we actually understand the new rules it s important that they can tick a box to say that we have attended a lecture in which the rules have been explained to us of course my lab would be well within their rights to demand japanese language ability from all employees if they wished but to do so would be to essentially rule out any possibility of attracting researchers from abroad the lab seems to have some aspirations of internationalisation and when i was first employed english language ability and not japanese was specifically required however that seems to have been dropped in more recent recruitment i wonder if they will arrange a special 90 minute one on one session for jules when she returns from her trip posted by james annan at tuesday march 27 2007 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels japan japanese tuesday march 20 2007 second childhood partly as a reward to myself for passing the jlpt 2 test and partly to help with further learning i decided some time ago to get a nintendo ds lite this took some time as the yodobashi stores have been permanently sold out and not even taking orders and i didn t want it so much as to actually go to tokyo and pay over the recommended price at the handful of shops that were price gouging yeah matching supply and demand by chance i wandered in to the yokohama store on friday evening just as they had a batch in so i joined the queue and am now the happy owner of a blue plastic child s toy as i said it s for study really and i ve got a couple of kanji learning applications this kanji kentei drill program and this new release nazotte oboeru otona no kanji renshuu trace and learn kanji practice for adults both of them go through the 1945 jouyou daily use kanji in the standard order that every schoolchild takes about a decade to learn the former application is aimed squarely at a series of kanji exams that this organisation organises with lots of questions in that style the latter is despite the name more like a children s learn to write program with patterns to trace over although i had to learn to read about 1000 kanji for the jlpt test that was just multi choice with no writing required so i d hardly learnt any writing at all in fact writing is completely irrelevant to my daily life in japan i ve never found anywhere that normal roman characters are not usable and even native japanese often struggle a bit when forced to write by hand however i m sure that the action of writing will help to embed the shapes in my memory and i m also tempted to have a go at one of the kanji tests this year as the jlpt1 is too big a jump in one step and the kanji kentei tests are more finely graded i was rather surprised on starting up the nazotte oboeru program that the first practice set of kanji which it presented me with were rather difficult ones which i had no idea how to read or write it turns out that the program judges your starting level based on your age i had thought it was a little intrusive to ask for date of birth along with name to personalise the game at the start but hadn t thought it would really matter so now according to the machine i am james aged 5 again both the programs are aimed solely at japanese not foreign learners of the language they rely on the user knowing a lot of vocabulary written phonetically and as such they are not really suitable for beginners they certainly do not replace my home brewed english japanese flashcard program but should augment it usefully there s certainly plenty of japanese reading practice in the programs i m also going to try some graphic novel adventure games of which a select few are available in dual language japanese english versions posted by james annan at tuesday march 20 2007 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gadgets japanese jlpt monday december 18 2006 2006 jlpt 2kyu test answers no doubt breaching all sorts of copyright restrictions but nevertheless someone has posted 2006 jlpt 2kyu test answers here with a couple of mistakes at least by my reckoning of course it s too late for me to remember how i answered many of the questions but i reckon i might just have sneaked a fail which will be disappointing not that it actually matters have to wait a few months for the official answer still posted by james annan at monday december 18 2006 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels japanese jlpt sunday december 03 2006 jlpt done so i can now forget everything i have memorised over the last 6 months i won t reveal any details of the test as it still hasn t started in some parts of the world the day started rather inauspiciously with someone deciding that now was a good time to jump in front of a train i guess if you are going to bring the network to a halt early sunday morning is one of the less disruptive times to do it but there were still plenty of us up and about at that time fortunately i had given myself plenty of time so after a brief panic i got a bus to ofuna and still arrived at the exam site with plenty of time it was interesting to note that a there were probably something like 1000 people just for the 2 kyuu exam in the yokohama region and b many most all that i heard speaking in japanese which was quite a few of them were really pretty fluent in japanese i suspect i would have been in the bottom 1st percentile for that but it s not a spoken test i think the first couple of papers went about as expected i was pleased to overhear a couple of people talking about the aural exam just after it finished confirming that a couple of my probably right answers were in fact correct i came a bit unstuck in the middle of the third paper reading comprehension and grammar which is always a bit of a desperate race against time but finished with an easy reading section 3 questions 15 points which means it can t have been that bad overall the exam didn t seem particularly hard compared to the practice tests and last year s exam which means i should have passed by a modest margin for reference that means that this book of practice tests which i had struggled with is clearly way too hard and this one is much more realistic although in contrast to the first book it doesn t explain the answers and it also has a few misprints but i will have to wait and see since the answers are marked on a multi choice machine readable card this will only take more than 2 months yes there is no typo there it s like getting reviews out of grl probably they have to arrange a line of ol s bowing and making cups of tea while a shinto priest waves hs magic wand at each answer sheet and then arrange an meaningless interview for each exam sheet that passes the 60 threshold which no one can give any plausible explanation for sorry in joke there pass or fail i don t plan to take 1 kyuu next year i guess i could probably just about make it if i really tried but slogging though another 1000 kanji and the rest would test my patience rather i would prefer to aim for has the ability to converse read and write about matters of a general nature which nominally describes a 2 kyuu candidate yeah right a language exam that doesn t actually test either speaking or writing ability is a strange and rather badly designed beast indeed still studying for it has certainly enhanced my ability to read and comprehend japanese posted by james annan at sunday december 03 2006 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels japanese jlpt friday november 24 2006 another jlpt test hmm that s a redundant test there in the subject line like when i use my personal pin number at the automatic atm machine never mind as had been threatened my japanese teacher gave me another test as practice the real 2005 exam since yesterday was a rainy holiday labour thanksgiving day i stayed at home and did it she seemed rather surprised that i passed by a clear margin 67 but that s because she doesn t realise that i ve been teaching myself the half of the syllabus that she hasn t had time for in our lessons obviously the exam was at the easier end of the tests i ve tried especially the kanji vocab paper and the grammar section of the last paper both of which i got personal best scores on the real surprise was the reading conprehension which was far longer than i d got used to 24 questions in all compared to a usual 18 20 so i really struggled for time on that and had to mostly just scan the texts quickly and choose the most plausible answer the little homilies are invariably written from a very standard middle class liberal perspective so the gist is generally something about bringing up or children well whilst allowing them their freedom to develop or looking after the environment rather mind numbing stuff to be honest not much i can do now except hope the real thing just over a week away isn t much harder posted by james annan at friday november 24 2006 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels japanese jlpt monday november 13 2006 testing times did the last one of my jlpt practice tests last weekend and got 67 it was the 4th of the easy set though which leaves me none the wiser as to my chances if the real test 3 weeks away is as easy as that one was which seems unlikely i ll surely pass if it s as hard as the one i did 3 weeks ago which i suspect is more likely i might well fail i d be surprised to not get something in the range of 55 65 but that doesn t help much given the 60 pass mark i did manage to pass each individual section for the first time which was moderately pleasing i ve also still got another 100 kanji to wade through which might be worth an extra point or two although i m probably forgetting old ones as fast as i m learning new ones now the exam is for me being held in some out of the way place i ve never heard of called fuchinobe i d been hoping expecting it to be somewhere around yokohama but it s nearer to hachioji a full hour by train and then a 30 minute walk ok in theory there is a bus but they warn it might be too busy unless i m early enough that i might as well walk anyway since i m half an hour from the station at this end too it will be an early start for a sunday morning posted by james annan at monday november 13 2006 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels japanese jlpt older posts home subscribe to posts atom featured post no terence mills does not believe his forecast another day another bit of clickbait climate sceptic trash in the times hidden behind a paywall which saves you from having to read it recipient of the woody guthrie award followers total pageviews popular posts a sensitive matter so 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