AP Japanese Scores?

Nanodesu
Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:57:08 +0000

I just took AP Japanese this year as a senior, and I was really surprised that I got a 5. I’m not saying I’m horrible at Japanese, but I’ve had minimal Japanese studying since my high school didn’t have an AP Japanese/Japanese 4 class. I can’t say I’m very good at Japanese at all though. My speaking is terrible, and I’m not great at kanji either. Probably what helped a lot though was studying for the JLPT, competing in Japan Bowl, and watching anime. I wouldn’t recommend watching anime though, since you won’t learn a ton, though it’s not a bad way to pick words up here and there if you know enough of the language.