The only proficiency test I took was to go to NE Honshu in January (Sendai and Matsushima) where the only thing in English was the romanization of Sendai in the JNR station signs. Snow was knee deep on the ground, so it was "communicate or die."
I think I'll be going to Tohoku next summer. The weather should be nice then, which is good, since my Japanese is still utter crap. If it came down to "communicate or die", my body would be on its way back to Nebraska within days...
so I didn't even know there was any form of organized proficiency tests for the language itself.
It's a pretty big deal now. I'd like to pass the ni-kyu test by the time I leave, but that's a pretty steep goal. San-kyu should be pretty easy though.
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