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Originally Posted by utsu
I actually know a person who claims to have done so. But if you ask me, she's full of it. She says that after a year of study she passed the highest level of the Japanese language test and actually took the Japanese uni entrance exams, got accepted to her choice university and studied in Japanese.
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Trying to figure out who you are and how I know you... :P
No, wait, I never took a Japanese university entrance exam and I headed to college years after doing the JLPT. Plus, I went the 専門学校 to university night class route.
But the JLPT1 - did that in a year of "study". Which really means very little in the long run, as the JLPT is a test that doesn`t really show much of real ability. My (hand)writing sucks and probably always will because I use a computer and there is very little necessity for handwriting in daily life.
I`ll believe your friend on the JLPT bit, but not the university entrance exam as that`s a whole different world. It is quite possible to pull off the language test in a year (if in Japan, immersed, determined, and very good with languages)... "mastery" on the other hand is not quite so simple.
Although I consider myself fluent, have absolutely no problems in life, can read, etc, with no difficulty... I would be VERY hard pressed to say I have "mastered" Japanese. I`ll *never* be at the same level in Japanese as in English, no matter how much time passes.