I work with a guy that knows maybe 100 kanji, but can speak better than a lot of people I know that passed N1. Some people just have really different skills.
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This would be a nightmare for people doing JLPT for translation jobs that don’t even need (or want) to speak Japanese haha. When I did C1 in Swedish there was lotssss of talking. If JLPT was the same it would be torture.
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I finally passed my N2! Two years of dropping down on the reading section by just a couple of points and I finally got through it!
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Congratulations!! 
おめでとうございます！！
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Wow. Even I passed N2 lol, very surprised after my fail during the exam
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How long you do study 0_o?
Your lvl is the only thing I know about you, so I wonder if it was super fast growth 
It was not super fast. I did take N3 in 2018, passed comfortably, then I was not doing much studies until spring last year when started preparing for N2. Took several years, but on the other hand studying Japanese was always a side project with low priority until I actually ended up in Japan last year 
Will go for N1 in July or December this year. I am not so interested in the certificate itself, just want to be confident with the language enough to have the same feeling “oh this is actually easy” that I had during N3 and N2.
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パチパチパチパチパチパチ！
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don’t put too much hopes in this. JLPT is not really design to test how “easy” Japanese is to you D :
But is the best we got so nothing to do about it -,-
well, for (near )native speakers it is fairly easy. At least I know a couple of people who were either half Japanese or raised in Japan but foreigners and had to take N1 at some point(because papers are important if you are not Japanese citizen).
So JLPT is not a very hard test. Another point though is that even if it is easy for you, you might still not be well functioning in Japanese because they don’t test how you can produce Japanese on your own (be it in speech or text) .
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Thanks!
Passed the N1!
I won’t complain about the slowness of updates anymore, haha.
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I watch yt opening his marks. That guy, although humble as hell, was able to freely make friends wiht japanese people and was reading only Japanes books for some time (2 years at that point i guess?).
When he notices he passed this time around he start crying on livestream and had to call his mother in. That’s how many times he failed it in past, and he got barely passing mark.
It is very weird test. You have to be quite an unordinary person to have such positive experience with it xD great for you. Maybe your Japanese is just too good to best tested at all 
Grats
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Well I believe it might be also about the whole test format with time restriction, stress of being in this weird environment and maybe topic of the books one is reading in Japanese. For example manga or light novels might not help much for passing N1, but reading news websites might be of better help?
My Japanese is certainly not as good as JLPT might suggest it is, I still have a lot to work on. Maybe I was lucky and the sessions when I took test were easier than usual
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You for sure already got “Japanese attitude” so that is saying something xD
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@iariar Congratulations! So glad we’re finally there!
@lopicake Nice one! I know you’ve been working on that for ages so it must be a great feeling.
I’ve already been contacted by my community Japanese teacher who wants me to start selecting my N1 materials for her classes. Exciting!
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おめでとうございます！まだ合格出来なかった人達頑張れ！
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Congratulations to everyone who passed — and wishing those who may not have passed this time good luck for the next test!
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Damnnn grats, you are now in a extremely tiny percentage of people that start learning Japanese and actually make it to N1!
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I believe you mentioned you will get a trip or something similar funded if you passed? Grats if that’s the case!
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Yeah I texted my boss all excited this morning, but because of the bloody ridiculous time scale it takes for the results to come back (this year was over 7 weeks) we’ve missed the deadline, so it’ll have to be next year now. It’s a shame - I don’t usually get to go on 出張 - but then again there’s a big chance that this year will be all online, which would spoil the excitement, so maybe waiting until next year is for the best anyway.
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