Nihongojouzu

How many kanji can you read?

Meguro Language Centre, source of some excellent JLPT resources, has a nifty kanji quiz on its website. The quiz is honour based - just tick the box next to the kanji or kanji compound if you think you can read it. There are 200 kanji/compounds and if you get them all right you are assessed in the 1900-2000 kanji range. Not having to write the readings and the tendency for people to tell themselves "but I knew that!" mean that this quiz is not super reliable but it provides a ballpark figure. How will you fare?

Good Learner, Bad Learner on Youtube

Apologies for the dearth of posts but I have been flat out translating: back-to-back assignments which leave no time for blogging. Not that I am complaining - I am (finally) making a living. In the tiny window of opportunity I found between formatting a client's PowerPoint presentation and making a cup of tea I finally uploaded my video Good Learner, Bad Learner to Youtube. I show this video at the JET Programme Recontracting Conference each year, and I once made it available via Bittorrent but Youtube is where the eyeballs are... Feel free to spread it around.