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Originally Posted by GTJ
Depends how hard they study. For some reason, when I'm outside of Japan, I can't retain ANYTHING. When I'm in Japan, I retain EVERYTHING. It's weird. But I've seen a LOT of Japanese majors who barely know 300 Kanji; I dunno about many other schools, but the schools in my home state (MD) don't have too many Japanese majors that aren't weaboos. Maybe on the west coast people are more hardcore? I know the Australian Japanese majors are really good, but America does not produce decent Japanese speakers or readers/writers >_<
Well yeah, considering literacy in Japan is almost 100% :P
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I attended one of the best universities for learning Japanese. I think we'd covered somewhere around 500 by the end of JPN 412L, which was fourth-semester Japanese. It may have been higher, but I don't think it could have been higher than 700 or so.
@GTJ
Having studied with Australians, I have to say that you're wrong. The Americans almost uniformly had better Japanese, whether we were from Kansas or Texas. Interestingly, those from California and Washington (West-coast, most "Asian" of all states) were the weakest of the Americans in my opinion.