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Originally Posted by MMM
Maybe I am mistakenly thinking Master Degree level study is actually difficult. I am a full-time translator and would consider myself fluent for the last 10+ years, but the idea of taking a Masters level class in Japanese (like you said listening to a lecture in Japanese for several hours a week) and then being tested on it sounds more than a little intimidating. I don't think I could patiently listen to several lectures a day and be expected to be responsible for all the information given to me at test time (several weeks or months later).
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MMM, I think you're right for certain subjects. In fact, probably most subjects because they will contain lots of technical terms and will include lots of thinking both with the language and the actual course. But I think what anrakushi is trying to say is that even most native speakers will come accross a lot of problems with some of the language. It happens a lot. So a dictionary definition of fluency would be more than sufficiant because you can still get the gist of what you're studying, and the rest, you can research yourself (which is meant to be the main purpose of most masters anyway, to get you to a level in which you can research and formulate your work in a certain way)