Intensive Purposes

Fun with Kanji

I learned something new this weekend. Which is kind of sad, it really shouldn't be news to me. First, some background.

In japanese, the word for delicious is "oishi", written in kanji as "美味しい". I was watching a japanese TV show called "Kuitan", which is about a private detective who likes to eat a lot. But that's neither here nor there. During the show, he visited a place called "The valley of the beautiful women". I know that "beautiful woman" is "bijin" in japanese. What I didn't realize is that it's spelled like this: "美人". That's right, the same character is used for "delicious" and "beautiful".

Okay, I know. I'm easily amused.

posted by Sir Phobos on 21 Feb 2006 at 10:20

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Testing Kanji Support
みんなさん今日は。

posted by Sir Phobos on 10 Feb 2006 at 14:03

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JLPT?

Okay, one of my goals for this year is to take the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) this december.
The test is structured in four levels, with JLPT-1 being the hardest, and JLPT-4 being the easiest. I'm told that JLPT-4
should be very easy, so I'd planned to tkae JLPT-3 last december. Unfortunately, due to some personal issues,
I was unable to sign up for the test. Which leaves me the following quandry: should I continue as planned and
attempt JLPT-2 this year, or go back and get JLPT-3? The test is only offered once per year, and you have to
sign up by september, if I recall correctly. If I try for JLPT-2, and don't pass, then I get nothing and have to wait
another year for my next shot. At this point, I'm leaning towards taking the JLPT-3.

posted by Sir Phobos on 09 Feb 2006 at 08:21

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