good morning everybody welcome to tokyo
creative play i'm your host emma and
today it's just me and i'm at japanese
language school
i haven't been to school in a very long
time i went to japanese language school
like four or five years ago so it's been
a long time i have not been studying and
now i'm going to be taking a placement
test to see what level i am and also
attending a class for the day so i'm
nervous to be honest it's been a long
time and i don't know what level i am i
don't know how to write kanji and i took
a practice test on the way here and it
didn't go very well so uh but i'm
excited to learn i'm excited to see how
i am see what my level is and also just
kind of get more comfortable with uh
being in a learning environment again
shall we take the test
oh
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okay i've just come into my own
classroom to myself and i'm going to
take the placement test uh so
yeah here we go
m
okay so i've been given the test uh it's
going to be multiple choice and there's
two different sections yeah i'm just
going to begin i've got 20 minutes so
here we go
ah okay
okay uh it's quite simple but i really
suck at particles so i'm like uh and i'm
very like i second-guess myself a lot
but it's going okay so far i don't feel
too out of my depth
so it's okay particle is like
i think it's joshi in
in japanese um so it's like signifying
what a subject is doing or like
yeah all that kind of stuff really
struggle with it oh no
and these ones as well
in this in 20 minutes
what how much time do i have left 11
minutes are you serious
there's no what
no
oh shoot oh there's no
way all right
yeah what are you up to five minutes
okay this is going well more um oh this
is bad
oh god
wait
oh that that's that's an example
okay uh wait 36. how long do i have two
total yeah
uh so that's four for 36.
there are so many more on this one
there's literally no way one minute left
i don't see that with one minute left
that's not that's thai job for jenna uh
should i just guess i mean there's
literally no way
i couldn't finish it i just put random
ones for the last i think seven
questions
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this time
hi
okay
okay they've taken the test and uh
they're gonna mock it now uh i think i
did pretty well
but
there was like seven questions at the
end that i couldn't finish it i did not
that was so little time but i did my
best
and i'm pretty happy with it so while i
wait i'm gonna eat a little snack
hey
foreign
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hi
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is
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foreign
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i'm in trouble
i think if i had a bit of time to get
used to the flow of how the class works
and get used to it i think i could and
if i had a bit more time to like
study a little bit more but coming in
fresh i'm like this is rough
but this is yeah studying for the n2
level test so yeah but it actually gives
me a bit of hope because i'm
understanding more than i thought i
would but i'm also very overwhelmed yeah
i'm not doing great but it's interesting
okay i need to write down what i don't
understand
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yeah i've forgotten so much it's
interesting i need to study again
somebody must sit
i got yakitori
like a meat skewer from the condominium
it's so good i get this like every time
what did you get what the heck yours is
more bougie than mine what is this i got
a pokeball
i'm getting zaytaco up in there
i was like so proud of mine that was
good it brings up like five star gourmet
so you're retaining the information okay
yeah yeah it's a good refresher on a lot
of stuff but then they were like okay so
just write down all the words that you
you want to talk about and i literally i
can't write kanji i've forgotten every
single candy sometimes i'm like i have
no clue what's going on because it's
such like random
they've all been there like studying for
a while so they all have the same kind
of knowledge built up to this point i
know in me my studying is like all over
the place okay so we finished all of the
reading part of it and now we're doing
the conversation part of it which is so
good because when i went to school we
didn't have a conversation part
we just had to practice in our own time
so this is really good
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american
what's your name my name is uh jason
jason i'm from the united states los
angeles
how long have you been in japan now uh
we got here last august oh wow about
nine months yeah
have you been studying at school the
whole time no uh we just started uh this
past april oh wow um
pretty rigorous i'm trying to pass that
jlpt yeah yeah i'm studying for that
were you studying back in the states as
well yeah a little bit
you know in university i studied
and then
here i'm just on my own like buying
books but definitely coming to classes a
lot better yeah i think so i really
struggle studying by myself so yes yeah
you know classmates is definitely better
than just doing it on your own yeah and
what do you want to do after you get
into if you get it yeah
i worked in education i was a teacher
back in the united states so i think
about doing the same thing here but i
think just having that jlpt open up a
lot of doors so yeah i'm open to
anything yeah and uh how's japan oh man
it's it's great i love the public
transportation coming from la you know
we drove everywhere so not having to sit
in traffic is nice
the people here are really nice um you
know the food
you know people think japanese food is
expensive but very affordable yeah yeah
especially lunchtime i think it's really
competitive and you know you can get a
bowl of ramen for us dollars six or
seven dollars yeah for the u.s it's a
one point ramen exactly exactly so we
like it here yeah definitely awesome
well good luck with the good luck with
the uh jlpt yes thank you guys for very
much yeah awesome thanks
foreign
okay i just finished uh my day at school
and i'm going to say goodbye to aki bye
aki
how was your day at school it's same as
always my brain is fried only to do it
all again tomorrow i feel that oh my god
good luck
goodbye
i'm gonna do a little a little goodbye
here
uh but yeah i just finished my day at
school my brain is so full i forgot what
it's like just every single day having
to go in and learn so much i just i
can't even imagine like doing this over
and over again so it was a great day i
learned a lot and it's kind of inspired
me to get my study back on and i think
probably i could
really study hard and go for n2 i think
i could do it if i just put my mind to
it and dedicate the time but let us know
in the comments down below if you guys
have been to japanese school before or
if you study on your own i'm so amazed
at the guy that we met today who studied
all on his own for two years and got to
almost n2 level like that's crazy so let
us know in the comments down below but
yeah i'm gonna go and take a nap because
my brain is so full so thank you so much
for watching and we'll see you guys in
the next video bye
sorry i noticed that you sit in the back
of the class did you always do that like
during school no i like to be like kind
of i'm always going to watch the front
yeah i literally can't concentrate even
if there's like one person in front of
me if i'm even if i'm close to it i
still don't do as well i have to be like
at the very front i got it all right
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so exciting