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Lately I’ve been listening to Angela Aki. I picked her up somewhere over the winter break due to her rather horrendously popular song ‘Tegami,’ or ‘Letter’ in English. Her new album was released in Japan on the 25th of February and her song ‘Black Glasses’ is just one of those songs that sticks in my head (like a lot of popular Japanese music, actually).
Here’s the youtube video of the song. Give it a listen.
In other news I have decided to take the Japanese language proficiency test this December at the level two standard. For those of you have aren’t familiar with the JLPT there are four levels that rank somewhere like this:
Level 4 (Lowest) necessary vocabulary: 800 words necessary kanji: 100
Level 3 necessary vocabulary: 1500 words necessary kanji: 300
Level 2 necessary vocabulary: 6000 words necessary kanji: 1000
Level 1 (highest) necessary vocabulary: 10000 words necessary kanji: 2000
See that gap between level 2 and 3? I am somewhere in between, more oriented toward 3 right now. Basically if I want to take level two I need to study insane amounts between now and then. It seems I need the goal to achieve this.
Enjoy the video and look forward to more small updates.
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It is hard to imagine you listening to a song like this. I get the wrong image of you listening to it.
Comment by bhhillyer February 27, 2009 @ 7:13 am