Is JLPT N3 enough to live in Japan? [#48] 

Thank you for having me on your channel Ken! It was so much fun and now with your help I can learn from my mistakes haha! Your channel is the best for Japanese learners.

She's really good at acting Japanese, which makes her even better, because a lot of people struggle with it at all skill levels, so it's great she can already do it very well! Plus, it means she can trick Japanese people into believing she's better than she actually is! :)

I have passed JLPT N3 with almost full points (179/180). My Japanese in conversation is nowhere near Aimee's level. I know people that passed N2 that aren't close to her level. If I were to take into account just this video, it would not be possible for me to gauge her level of comprehension, but just based on what was said I believe it must exceed my own abilities. What I want to say with this comment is for people aiming at being conversational in Japanese, her Japanese is not representative of JLPT N3 speaking level. Based on what she said about barely passing (although that might be an exaggeration), maybe she just doesn't study kanji and written Japanese as much (two thirds of the test are dedicated to written Japanese). I'm sure this is completely unintentional, but this video sets unrealistic expectations of what to expect when passing JLPT N3 exam. Don't expect to speak this well passing the N3 exam. Living for a year in shared house with native Japanese speakers is certainly the reason she can speak this well and you, average RU-vid user, studying at home in your own country aiming at N3 won't be able to get to this level of Japanese. This is not to be negative about the video, please don't take this as an attack on the video, which I think was perfect, especially how in the subtitles Ken-san corrected Aimee's mistakes, that's invaluable resource for us, students of the language. I just don't want people to have unrealistic expectations. I want people to understand this is not N3 level of Japanese. You'll have to study more to get to her level. (Of course I have to study a lot as well to reach her level).

I agree with other commenters, this is a wonderful conversation for Japanese language learners. Thank you for putting so much effort into the subtitles!

She's so inspiring! She's not perfect but she's really good and can get her point across! I'm aiming to pass N3 soon.

wooah this kind of video is incredible for studying! I've found a lot of material before that either only has the English subtitles or only has it in Japanese. This way I can ignore the English subtitles for the most part until there's something I don't understand and then I can cross-reference the Japanese subtitles with the English ones. Props to you for making great material and I hope to see more of this :)

I was able to understand basically everything due to the text in Japanese. My listening is horrible but I could keep up with the reading. The conversation was kept very simple! Good job

Your channel provides more learnings especially to me since im not that good in kaiwa. Hope to learn more here as beginner. I was here in japan for 8motnhs now.

I just stumbled upon this channel and I appreciate the nice, slow flow of information. Great job, guys!

Thank you for uploading this video, this helped me a lot for shadowing practice, keep up the good work けんさん, I will absolutely waiting for the next videos❣️🙏

Another great video for following along. Hopefully i can visit Japan soon, thanks 🙂

First video I watched on your channel and immediately subscribed! It's awesome to see both languages on screen WITH the corrections, so everyone can learn from each other. The conversations are not too hard, so you can still follow pretty easily, even without understanding every single word. Totally underrated!!

Another great Video Ken san! and way to go Aimee San, It's wonderful to hear you and Ken-san speak.

Just discovered this channel. I really like the layout of the text in your videos separating the japanese and english. The speed is good for people learning too

Sympa de retrouver Aimee dans tes vlog !

This video is been sooo useful for me, since my japanese skills are more or less at the same level as the ones of the Aimee! A really nice and natural video 😁

i am so happy i found u !!!! i just can say what everyone else is saying to u ! big thanks !!! i learn with genki but sometimes me tired of learning with a book and if i watch ure videos for fun it feels like i learning more japanese and understanding the excersices in the genki book even better !

I’m loving these conversations, I was actually able to understand everything without needing the English sub, I’m really proud of myself! And the Japanese sub helps a lot, especially when it comes to keeping myself focused, since I usually have a hard time with that. Thank you!

This is amazing educational content. Incredible work, thank you very much.

Hi Ken. I wanted finally to say thank you for your videos. They help me a lot tu study japanese. I use your videos mostly for shadowing practice. I used your 9 minute video with naoko-san minimum 8 times to do shadowing. I am studying Japan Studies at the univeristy of zurich in Switzerland and I have been studying Japanese for ichinenkan rokkagetsu gurai. Your videos are easy to comprehend and perfect for listening and shadowing exercise. 動画を撮ってくれた本当にありがとうございます、けんさん。最高

字幕が最高です!　本当に勉強になりました。ありがとうございます

いい会話でした😊 コメント欄を見てても JLPTを 不要 と言う人もいます。人それぞれでしょう。 でも日本の企業で採用も担当している立場から言うと 日本で仕事を探す場合に限って言えば JLPTは持ってる人の方が断然に有利です。企業としても１回か２回の面接で全ての能力を見極めるのは不可能です。なので能力を証明できる資格を持っていると選ばれやすいです。

I just found out your video, it's really cool, I liked your conversation. Next year i ll pass the JLPTN3 but I am working alone, fortunelly i can speak with japanese friends :) I ll use ur video to work sometimes ;)

I have 0.1 Japanese and it's been fine living in Japan. It's true that living in Japan helps your Japanese listening skills a lot. Reading is also not a problem for me. But because I did not have any proper education in Japanese I can't properly speak or write in Japanese, since I know very little grammar.

This is so great! I just moved to Tokyo from NYC for work. This is so helpful and it inspires me to learn more. My wife is from Japan and we have a two year old daughter so I want to challenge myself more. I would love to get more information on how I can help, or take your classes or even participate in this.

All video are motivated . Thank you for make to this video ❤ ---- u R real teacher for foreigners ❤----

Well that was a very pleasant discussion in Japanese for me to enjoy. I noticed with your guest, Aimee, that she not only spoke Japanese well (I believe that's accurate), but she also had a lot of the other sounds & gestures that Japanese make when talking. As an Australian with friends living in Tokyo and Kumamoto, I did for a while, think 'could I live in Japan'? There was so much I liked about Japan and the people that I lived there for 3 months to get a better feel for Japan. In the end I decided that the constant pressure to conform would have changed my free and easy approach to life. Don't misunderstand me. I try to be polite and work with people. It's just that there's so many rules of behaviour that after a while I might have become a mental case. In fact I knew a couple of people who lived in Japan and returned back to Australia after 6 years or so away. Both were completely altered by their experiences. Before they left for Japan they were fun to be around. Afterwards they were serious and acted depressed. It was like they had lost the joy of life, and ability to have fun and relax. I'm blaming their time in Japan. But maybe it was something else that happened to them. For example both had failed marriages to Japanese girls and had children. So maybe that was what caused it. Regardless they seemed sad to me.

Even though I already passed N3, I still can't speak like her. She is so good man. I guess i have a long way to go

I'm learning Japanese, and probably not quite to N3 level, but I'm delighted that I understood almost this entire conversation! I think having Japanese subtitles made it much easier for me. I was thrown off a few times by all the kana. I could have probably read the subtitles better in a few places with the kanji. But still, this video was a great motivator for me!

wow she speaks really well, speaking is the most difficult for me

先生の説明が分かりやすくてありがとうございます。

Wow! This video is interesting

My motivation to learn Japanese increases whenever I see your video (bless you )(love from india)

cool video, Aimee seems really excited to just speak Japanese smiling all the time lol. Started my studies this fall, hopefully someday i'm as good in Japanese as her!

こんにちはけんさん久しぶり、やっと新しい動画を投稿た本当に嬉しい。僕は日本語能力試験を受けるを考えているからこの動画の話題が面白くてAimeeさんと沢山の所に同感しました。僕もおじいさんとおぼあさんを話しているを聞くの時ちょっと難しくて少しの言葉をはっきり聞き取れないけど大体理解できる、それで僕も日本の文化が大好きで興味があって日本の生活を体験したいと日本の友達作りたくにて日本語を練習したい日本に行くたらずっと住みたいと思う。いつもありがとうございます

Watching her gave me confidence to speak Japanese more I'm always worried about making mistakes. Usually all i see foreigners who speaks very good Japanese in YT channels..

Furigana style and english subtitle is very nice.

I'am starting hiragana & katakana Really hard but fun...

yeah I believe so! N3 is enough to just live in Japan but if you wanna go corporate, like work in an office environment, you definitely need at least N2. Its a worlds difference between the two.

What a great Channel to learn japanese 🌑👏🏻

Thank you so much❤❤❤

字幕は　ありがとう。ブラジルから、今　日本に住んでいます。仕事と勉強のため。ありがとう。

Congratulations to Aimeeさん for passing N3, and she seems motivated for N2! I'm also a huge proponent of Share House University..

I certainly hope that n3 is enough to live in Japan! I only finally bothered getting mine last year 😅😅😅 Coworkers and I took 2 last weekend and I'm dreading the results next month!

Aimeeさん、N2を合格するといいですね💯 間違ってる部分を直す字幕がすごく好きです。本当に役に立ちました。

Aimeeさん　N3合格おめでとうございます！話す力もすごいですが、聞く能力が高いですね。 テストどうでした？って聞かれてまぁまぁギリギリでしたけど、って謙遜して返すのも日本人っぽい。日本のカルチャーに馴染んで言葉を学んでるんだなってきがします。これからも頑張ってください！😃

この動画を作ってありがとうございます！僕も今N3を勉強してるところでこの動画を見るとすごく勉強になって、それともすごく自信が持つようになりました！これからも動画を見て応援しています！

We often have female Japanese teacher on the internet and less male natural voice speaking in a slow manner which we can learn from, Kensanorkaeri channel is valuable for us who wants to have a male role model that we can shadow from! Thank you so much and I am grateful for every video~

i love the way you show and correct the wrong words that she spoke in red !

Really depends on person's ability to openly express themselves I guess. By the time I had obtained N2, my friend who already had N1 would still struggle to express himself in normal conversation and would rather listen others speak. Me on the other hand, would be able to communicate without much of an effort on much fluent level but wouldn't be able to write or read on the same level as him.

I wish I was this good at Japanese. I've been studying for over a year and I'm still a jlpt n5

whatever she is working on i really hope she got her n2 and visa(😅i mean i got n2 like 5 years ago and still failed to get work permit at car parts molding company since then i went to my home country, then this sunday im doing n3 test and getting tokutei certificate to re-enter japan)

Honestly, she was right that kanji and reading is somehow more difficult (at least in my opinion) than listening, unlike English. I still struggle with vocabularies though

yeah one of the things that I am not used to following, as a person learning japanese overseas, if I hear someone speaking the very deep Japanese voice, or very high voice or the older sofu sama in anime I really struggle to follow with the accents.

My favorite two people :)

ほんまにわかりやすいやなあ😁😁😁😁、subscribeをしました。

What is the below text with an arrow? Is it suppposed to be a correction or an alternative way to say the phrase? I'm not sure about the first possibility, since you also did that to something you said.

Teruskan membuat vidio percakapan seperti ini lagi

凄く頑張っているね！良いなぁ

so if i can understand このビデオの会話ならば、私もＮ３合格の可能性がある。

二人ともの会話は全部分かります！ 嬉しよ。❤️

❤❤❤

I’m learning Japanese on my own with an arbitrary order (kanji and grammar) and i can tell that i understood almost all of this conversation, can i consider myself at jlpt 3 level without passing the exam?😅

N3は大丈夫だと思います。私の場合はn4しか受からなかったし、日本人と同じぐらいの日本語が話すことが出来ているし、n1合格しても使わなかったとすればすぐに忘れるから困るんですよね。それにn4だけだとしても日本人と話したら勉強しないとしたって上達になるはずです。だから日本人の友達を作って話していて勉強になりますから上手になります。

I just passed N3 and I for sure can't speak as good as her 😭 I never really practiced speech though

You deserve my subscription DONE. Thank you.

私,N3を勉強し始めますからこんなコミュニケーションがわかるやすいです。

わいいい楽しそう！僕もインタビューを受けたい！ あいみーさん、お疲れ様でした！

👍👍

It's definietly not enough, neither in kanjis, vocab, or understanding. She will eventually get better tho, but shes not really used to talking. It's also kind of textbook japanese.

The reason why JLPT is difficult for the Westerners is that they do not share the Chinese character cultures. As far as I am concerned, this is the most challenging part and takes much longer time to get into the system than other Japanese parts. Due to this, people who get the highest marks in JLPTs are mostly Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean students. Because they do not need to 'learn and think' about this concept but just get 'the feelings' from their own. It is literally a life-ling progress even to the Native Japanese speakers and a totally different brain function from learning phonetic languages, in fact. (There was a case of a brain injury with a permanent damage and language ability loss of a Japanese man, but he still could recognise/ read Chinese characters but not hiragana/katakana, thus phonetic parts.) If to go deeper, but this part can be much interesting than any others. Such as pun, playing words and 破字. When my Chinese friend introduced her to Japanese and Korean friends, so she explained her name like "Long and ring." And the Japaneses also uses the same way when their name is too comlicated or unusual. "Add one more line next to the person." If you have no idea about Chinese characters, this sounds totally 'what the f***???' just like my European friends did but well, this works in that way XD. Speaking cannot be such callenging than this part actually, though her 'accent' is remarkablly better than most learners of her level. Good luck and keep going!

Aimeeさんの発音が上手だと思います。私は「ええ、アメリカ人ですか。カナダ人ですか。」と思いました。オーストラリア人の発音を聞けなかったです。 Kenさん、thank you again for making another great video for japanese learners.

What I think you alway trying to use easy japanese word which that why Really love your video!!! Thank youu

私も外国人で、東京で日本語を学んでいますが、大阪では、私が学んだことで、彼らがまったく新しい言語を持っていることに気付きました

I felt like the kanji section was easy and listening section was hard.

Aarigatougojaimasu...for this kireina video

I wish Listening would be my easiest part! But I’ve been learning Japanese purely from written materials so far so I am absolutely hopeless in Listening 😂

3:45 How could I now 入っていけない here would mean "Hard to join" and not the meaning we are taught of "You must not enter"?

上手い会話でしたまた他のこのような話の会話待っております宜しくお願い致します

けんさん、ビデオを作ってありがとうございました！久しぶりですね！最近、調子はどうですか。私は来年の7月にJLPT3を受けたいです。

The coming 2 days i will be taking my first jlpt which is n5, pray for me xD

i passed n3 easily and could barely say a sentence so yeah, it depends. n3 could mean nothing because it only tests reading and listening..

Hiragana easy I remember for life Katakana easy I remember it for life Kanji 💀 I am more focused on listening and speaking so I did not go into kanji too much, once I get to around 2k word fluency i will try my hand at at least 200 most common kanji

お祖父さん弁 is difficult in every language. :D

私も日本の自然んが好きですから、今までも日本語を勉強するのは頑張りますよ- 😊

ベトナム人としての私は、漢字と読解は結構簡単ですけどリスニングは一段と難しい🥲

Obviously you need jlpt N10, where you can give discourses on Japanese history at a moment's notice 🤣

YesN3 is very hard😢

Curious - In order to get a work visa in Japan - is there a Japanese language proficiency requirement? What if you are married to a Japanese citizen - doe that require language test as well to get a permanent residency card?

AimeeさんはJLPT N 3を取ったけど話すことのレベルがすごいですね

i passed N3 but i can't communicate "that" fluently at all... what a shame to myself

日本語を勉強しています日本語は学ぶのが難しいです

Hi I want to pass n2 can you give some advice thank you in advance

I just moved to N3 wish me luck and if someone can give me any tip or tell me how to study N4 and N3 level It will be great for me 私の名前はアビシェクです。よろしくお願いします。☺️

To survive? Yeah i think so! To have meaningful times with friends, make serious connections and live as a full adult? Probably not

Probably, yes, it is enough to live in Japan, but the question should be: N3 level is enough to live happy in Japan?.

I'm very surprised that an N3 passer can speak that much Japanese. I have studied a little over 2,000 kanji but I can barely speak Japanese. ヤレヤレだぜ

More than enough for a tourist.

Omoshiroi video ganbatte

So... Is JLPT N3 enough to live in Japan?