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Originally Posted by anrakushi
it could be an American thing. The problem it causes is for example i did one year of studying Japanese in university in Australia before going to Japan and of actual class time i had just 72hrs in that year. i had learnt so little before going to Japan. that is why hours are used as people should generally be capable of similar amounts after so many hours but years is very vague because the number of class hours, home study etc can vary greatly.
just as an example, taken from wikipedia
Test content and requirements summary for JLPT
Level Kanji Vocabulary Listening Hours of Study
4 ~100 (103) ~800 (728) Basic ~150
3 ~300 (284) ~1,500 (1409) Intermediate ~300
2 ~1000 (1023) ~6,000 (5035) High Level ~600
1 ~2000 (1926) ~10,000 (8009) SFLIJ* ~900
*Sufficient For Life In Japan
Numbers in brackets indicate the exact number in the current Test Content Specification (Revised Edition, 2004).
anyway this is just a rough poll so it is not important ^^ just found it interesting.
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The table of hours (the one that was given by anrakushi) is the standard measure that is applied to anyone in gauging their JLPT level.
Normally, for those that are just taking the language for the fun of it and not intending to progress from level to level via the JLPT, then they normally talks about YEARS instead of HOURS.