{"id":459,"date":"2011-08-16T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2014-08-21T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:51:08","slug":"going-back-to-okazaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Going Back to Okazaki."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned earlier that I was dissatisfied with the way my Japanese was progressing when I took the JLPT N2 last month. After talking to Michele, I realized that I have <strong>completely neglected<\/strong> my spoken\/written Japanese in order to prepare for the N2, which tests neither skill.<\/p>\n<p>I considered my options seriously, and realized that if I want to work in Japan, just having N2 (if I pass it) isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>I need better Japanese communication skills.<\/p>\n<p>When I went to <strong>Yamasa <\/strong>in 2007, I got a huge boost to my language ability in just 2 weeks&#8217; time. I&#8217;m hoping that 3 months can make for a massive turnaround. So I&#8217;ll be back in Okazaki in a few weeks&#8217; time, soaking up as much knowledge as is humanly possible.<\/p>\n<p>And trying not to use English.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just a little bit nervous, but mostly excited. I want to get better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned earlier that I was dissatisfied with the way my Japanese was progressing when I took the JLPT N2 last month. After talking to Michele, I realized that I have completely neglected my spoken\/written Japanese in order to prepare for the N2, which tests neither skill. I considered my options seriously, and realized that <a href='https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=459' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[894,828,12,100,895,106],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","category-japanese-language-study","category-travel","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan2011","tag-japanese","tag-okazaki","tag-travel","tag-yamasa","category-3-id","category-4-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}