Re: Questions about two sentences

Ben Bullock <benkasminbullock@xxxxxxxxx> dixit:

No it's not me, because I never repeat myself. Let me repeat that. I never
repeat myself. Is that clear? I never, ever repeat myself. I hope you
understand that now. You will never hear me repeating myself, so don't ever
claim that I repeat myself, because I never, ever do. Repeating oneself is
unacceptable. That is why I don't repeat myself. Ever.

Amen, amen, amen, .....

I don't think it's astonishing - it's cheaper to mark exams with graphite
pencil marks in circles than to hire highly trained people to give
interviews for language exams. My wife is trying for "First Certificate in
English" again in December, which is a real language exam, not a Mickey
Mouse bull*** one like TOEIC or JLPT, and she had to pay 18,000 yen or so
for the exam fee.

I wish there were real language exams for Japanese in the same way that I
wish there were real language exams for European languages. I've mentioned
this before about the JLPT, but most of the countries in Europe have
language exams based on the same criteria, so that the exam for German at a
certain level is roughly equivalent to the exam for English or French at the
same level, which is a nice system. Unfortunately I don't think this kind of
thing will happen in a hurry in Japan, especially since Japan is still
obsessed with the meaningless garbage results of the TOEIC exam.

Well, isn't the JLPT just another reflection of the whole Japanese
education system's approach to testing competency levels?

--
Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学
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