Re: Beat Toudai

Ben Bullock wrote:
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Of course 10 questions on gairaigo helps for us english-speakers (so
long as we can work out what it will be mangled into in katakana).
Despite that, I still managed marginally less than a lucky monkey would
have got (ie about the same as a high school student). Luckly that JLPT
test is some way off :-)


Those results are certainly interesting, since elementary school
students get less than what your lucky monkey would do. My guess is that
the results list is just faked guff designed to make entrants feel
better: "Oh look I did better than an average high school student" etc.
Welcome to the whacky world of Japanese TV. Fake-o stuff like this is
par for the course.

Incidentally Bart might like to notice the "そんな瞬間誰にでもありますよ
ね？" (with the question mark) in the top page.

I'd kind of like to. My attempt to download resulted in a large number
of empty pdf pages. I'll try a different reader if I can. Not that I
can spare the time today. (But I'm really curious about how things I
look at in a PDF file can be scored by anyone else.)

But I seem to be missing something of interest here. I don't think I've
ever said Japanese don't use question marks.

Bart
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