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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2024.02.03

For the past three+ years I've been studying Japanese with a teacher. We've been meeting once a week. Having just completed the second book in the series we've been using, she tells me that I could sit the "New N4" exam in the JLPT series. "N4" is the second-lowest, I can barely believe I could actually pass it. But she tells me that when I complete the third book, I'll be able to sit "N3", which equates roughly to conversational Japanese and is something you might see on a resume. 頑張りましょう!

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... I'll let you in on a secret. Big people are exactly the same as little people. They're selfish, squabbling children whose motivations are jealousy and greed. No one becomes big when the hit adulthood. They just become better at hiding how small they are.

Jonathan Rosenberg