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Re:Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses by rococode on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:23PM (#18565144)
Not sure if this is what OP used, but the Google Translate app is nearing sci-fi levels of accuracy and speed. The conversation function is good enough that you can talk with someone while both using different languages and actually understand each other with minimal delay.
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Re:Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses by inawarminister on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:47PM (#18566759)
Yes but I was under the impression that Japanese long term work visa was only granted to those that had achieved N3 in Japanese language, seems I might be under a mistaken impression...
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Re:Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses by asp_hornet on Sunday December 02, 2018 @04:50PM (#18584791)
OP probably has N3.

I have no idea why anything other than N2 and N1 exist. N3 is basically useless, I got it in under 6 months of studying and I’m a slow learner (my Korean and Chinese peers were going for N2 at that time). I still couldn’t function well with it. I was so disappointed by it I skipped 2 and went straight to N1.

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