Thoughts on JLPT4

日本語能力試験４級の思うこと

先週の日曜日に、わたしは「The japanese school]へ日本語能力試験４級しに行きました。それはちょっと難しけど、おもしろかったです。　いくつかの問題はわからない、でも受かったでしょう。

Saw Walker sensei at the testing ground, was pretty surprised to see her there. I wonder whether she's teaching there too. Didn't greet her though, don't think she remembered me.

Comparatively, the JLPT 4 is both harder than and easier than the NUS japanese test. On one hand, the focus of JLPT 4 is heavily on hiragana, yet, the questions they asked, some of them are out of syllabus for me. The most interesting part was the listening test, where I heard many forms that I sorta knew for the first time (～ことが　and ～しまります).

The Japanese School itself was pretty interesting, it's situated very near Changi Prison.. maybe that's why the place itself looks pretty forbidding from the inside. It also seemed that the security was a little too excessive. There's a swimming pool as well as other facilities, but there was no canteen. Do all the kids eat bentos there? -_-

There were people of different age groups taking the test, mainly the twenty somethings like me, although there were younger and older people there too. Is amazing to see so many different people interested in learning japanese.

Ashleigh, Kim Wee and Melissa were also taking the test. Ashleigh said the paper was very easy -_-.. for me I'd say that it was challenging but definitely passable. Melissa was running a fever on that day, hope she's feeling better.

All in all, a memorable experience, although I envy the people who could take the JLPT at Bugis test center instead of the more ulu Changi. JLPT 3 next year? Haha, might give it a shot..