Qualifications in Japanese?
Author: Richard
Q: Your site is excellent thank you. can you recommend a course where you get a legitimate qualification at ou bis in French or Italian as most Japanese courses just say we will take your word for it and send you a bit of paper i want a nvq or higher thanks - Christopher
A: The only real qualification in Japanese is the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) , so if a paper qualification is what you want then a course that offers this is the only real option.
However there are two problems with the test, the first is that it is very grammar/written based, many people who have good test scores can’t speak at all. Also any jobs that would need a qualification would expect the top level 1 kyu. My advice would be to learn to speak first, and then if you want to go further the JLPT is very good at forcing you to learn kanji!
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