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    are you fluent or plain incomprehensible?
    Friday, May 30, 2008 (3:39 PM)

    it's funny how some people misinterprete fluency in a language as speed and inaudibility. i went for an interview some days ago with a japanese speaker and as much as i believe that she has a very good knowledge and mastery of the language, it somehow seems that she was more keen on speed than clarity.

    i have to admit that after 4 years of not using japanese, i'm so rusty, a tetanus jab is not going to help if i cut you by accident. but when i requested for the interviewer to repeat, she was more incomprehensible than fluent. the rush to finish the sentence could be felt. i swear my hair rustled.

    i intend to go back to elementary japanese class. anyone?