Every couple of years I’d try again-maybe this would be the year I’d stick with it? Nope-each time I failed. Sure, I picked up a few words here and there from anime and music, but when it came to grammar and kanji, I just couldn’t stick with it for more than a couple of weeks. At that age, unfortunately, I had no idea what I was doing. I always wanted to learn the language, and first dug in when I was around sixteen years old. My conclusion of it being pointless probably affected my desire to learn Japanese in the first place.
Spending the money on flights, hotels, and everything else just to take a low-level exam that I may or may not pass was pretty much out of the question for me, so I shrugged it off as being pointless. I always wanted to take it, but growing up in Newfoundland meant I knew it was something I would have to spend a lot of money on-the nearest testing location was, and still is, in Toronto. The Japanese Language Proficiency exam (JLPT), or 「日本語能力試験」as it is called in Japanese, was something I had been aware of since my teens.
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