"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message

> Believe it or not, the word "Masayuki"
> isn't on the wordlist for any grade of the JLPT (I checked).

How to recognize names is on the curriculum of the JLPT level 4. You're
going to try level 12 ?
The truth is you just don't care about people. That's OK in your country if
you write to " Tanaka Kimiko" to start with "Dear Mister Kimiko" and then
say "Ooops , I had never that name before." with a ton suggesting "Hey, I'm
not supposed to know of names of foreign weirdoes."

> On the other hand, one advantage I have is the reasoning skills needed to
> recognized what is relevant to a topic, and what is not.

You think so ?
What's the relation between the topic of Nankin and Masayuki's opinion of
the Chinese ?

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