In my opinion, JLPT3 is a "good" level and if you have it, you can definitely say that you speak Japanese. It's also a realistic goal that many people can achieve. If you are serious about learning Japanese, it will make perfect sense to try to pass it. But if you are interesting communicating with Japanese people, there are many other things that tests don't cover because the way Japanese people speak Japanese can be different from the way textbooks teach you. So if you want to learn Japanese with me, I can send you some Japanese lessons where I teach you the kind of Japanese that Japanese people actually speak. Click here and subscribe bit.ly/3btTyxB

After many years of study Japanese, I can proudly proclaim that my Japanese is on the level of a grade schooler

These kids were so cute and polite. The girl on her own was especially well-spoken and was able to explain her thought process more clearly than most adults could - future teacher maybe!

I love how one girl was explaining everything. Better than some of my Japanese "teachers".

やった！合格したんだ。 I'm quite impressed with these kids reasoning skills. While these questions were certainly relatively simple for them, their explanations for why and their word choices for explaining it seemed a bit more mature and sophisticated compared to kids in my country.

Kids in this video: "This was easy." Adults from the other videos: "This that new math."

Next video: "Can Japanese infants pass JLPT N5?"

I think if you gave adult native English speakers a similar English proficiency test you'd have the same kind of results vs if you gave it to school aged English speaking kids. The adults would most likely struggle more with it. Just like you suggested, old people like me haven't actually studied English in class in a long time. So while we use English constantly every day, unless you're an English teacher, a writer, or just a language nerd we really don't think about things like grammar, sentence structure, and such very deeply anymore. We just use English the way it sounds correct and natural to our ears without really understanding why it sounds correct and natural.

That kid with the glasses quietly giving out the correct answers is such a dear

I can't shake the feeling that they were more proficient than I was in our respective native languages at the same age 😂

4:45 The ghost in the upper left corner is like wtf.

Please do more video with Kids. Their speech is much cleaner than adults speech and it looks like what we actually learn in Japanese Courses. It's easy to understand. They were amazing explaining the reasoning behind their choices and they are surprisingly more prone to talk confidently in front of a camera than adults.

This is honestly one of my favorite videos you've done so far. To me, this is fascinating. There are so many opportunities to learn with it. I am listening to them speak, and really loving all I can pick up from this. Very, very educational.

They are so cute and smart.

一人目の女の子めちゃくちゃ賢そう。日本語をこれだけ説明できる小6、なかなかいないよ。

So much cuteness, and how they didn't treat bad to each other if they got it wrong. Thanks Yuta for the subtitles.

Cuteness overload

They speak so clearly even with masks on. I would listen to them for hours, especially the first girl. They inspire me.

Man that kid just wanted to eat his ice cream in peace

Nobody want to comment how cute the 13 years old boy is?. Here in US, 13 years old boy feel like 20 in terms of face.🤣

Me on the first question: Oh this is easy. I got it right. Question 2-5: えっと。。。。

I'm getting hypnotized by Yutas eyebrow movements ㅜㅜ

The kids are so good at explaining the answers which has actually really helped me to consolidate my learning. As a teacher, it is also really lovely to see them explain their reasoning in this way.

あの二人の女の子めっちゃ可愛かったです！それに賢い💗

I loved the video in general but also the fact that I exactly knew, where this was filmed :D Oh dear Shibuya, how I miss you!

Just found out that YT had turned off the notifications for your channel, I'm glad I was digging up the "followings" section and found you back hehe

I cnt help but smile ❤️ The kids were so polite! Love this one!

一年前N１合格した。しかし、ただ簡単な日本語が話せるレベルだと思います。日本語を勉強すればするほど、分からないことは多くなってきました。もう「日本語上手～」のような褒めに飽きました。いつでも「えっ、あいつ日本人じゃねえの？」のレベルになりたいなあ

小六のマスクしてる女の子ハッキリしててなおかつ頭良さそうでめっちゃ好感持てる、説明も上手いし塾講師とか向いてそう

Love the videos as always

I stopped at N3. It felt like a good place to stop since I didn't foresee myself ever moving to Japan or having to use Japanese for work. I do sometimes think about going for N2 or higher though... Purely for self-edification at this point.

As I'm studying for the N3 now and have started to work with this grammar, I found this video really helpful! Thank you for your effort! I enjoyed hearing there simple deductive reasoning skills from the native speaking perspective. N3 here I come :D

Nice video. I am currently studying in order to take JLPT N3 later this year and this was a great motivation to keep up with my studies.

Learned some new words out of these kids' explanations and saved some of them on Anki. Like 逆説、国語、対義語、 etc. Thank you for this!

I am absolutely loving this series of various people doing JLPT questions. More than just knowing if they (and I) got the question right or not, hearing them reason about it and comparing it to my own reasoning gives me so much more easily understandable information about my actual Japanese level and how my thinking differs or doesn't from a native speaker. I find this format really easy to follow along with, whereas I quickly get tired of trying to do practice tests or anything like that.

Me, a JLPT 4,9: Alright, let's pause to read the question. Why not. (2 seconds later) *surprised Pikachu face* Also, it must have been a breeze for Yuta to do a segue for his course on this one! 😁

Love your videos Yuta :)

I definitely thought the N3 would be easy for this age group but I guess I was wrong. I forget what its like to be an elementary student I guess I passed the N2 last summer and hopefully will take the N1 this summer if its not cancelled by coronavirus

0:45 This one explain everything very well! :)

The girl at 0:56 is literally me in language exams. Don't know how to explain my choice of answer except saying it "doesn't look right" but still got it anyway 🤣🤣

9 yrs old japanese: reads kanji words fine me at 9 yrs old: i am potato

omg they're so smart and cuuuuuute 🥰

Got them all right. There's definitely a jump from N3 to N2. I passed the N2 a couple of years ago, but it was really hard.

These kids are all so cute >.

as a japanese learner... i cannot believe a small child has beaten me to death with no effort

めちゃ面白かった。ヴィデオ見ながら、テスト答えました、日本人子供は賢いいですね

As a junior high school ALT who recently passed N2, I'd like to see a video with junior high school kids doing N2 questions.

This was such a edifying video

I'm currently studying for the N2 test (I've never sat any other JLPT test). Fortunately I got all of these answers right, but I found the kids explanations (and your subtitles for them) very helpful. Grammar is a big sticking point for me right now.

Yuta, you did a great job helping the kids feel comfortable enough to answer the test questions! Kids can often be shy so this was cool to see. I was surprised by their reasoning skills and knowledge of Japanese grammar at their age, many Japanese adults wouldn't know/bother to go that far! Do you think it is a difference in quality of education in different generations, a difference in behavior related to age (adults unwilling to share their thought path due to some social constraint), or have I just not met any willing adults? LOL. Good video!

They are so cute... of course!! They can pass it.. I have N2 but I cannot explain things like them.. awesome 👏

They are so cute and lovely ❤ May they be successful and happy in life.

i went 2/3 for the first 3 questions, but i was so wiped out from the 3rd question’s length that the 4th one just had me like “aight nope” lol

Up until now I always thought 今ごろ meant "nowadays/in recent years". Maybe I was just conflating 今時 and この頃. In any case, 勉強になりました.

I had the first 3 right, just by feel more or less. I didn't read the whole text. Didn't think it was necessary. I skipped the fourth one. Didn't want to put too much effort into it just now. My reading skills have deteriorated a lot, since I never use it. I have the old 3kyū, which would now be N4.

This actually makes me feel a lot better about my japanese abilities. I never studied for the JLPT but I comfortably managed to get all the questions right.

Those are some precious cute kids you interviewed

I like glasses-boy's blue and yellow jacket, it's a very nice colour combination.

I love Japanese!! I’m in level 2 and faced jlpt N1 in December..hope to improve more…from Japan 🇯🇵🇱🇰

The kids are so endearing! :)

Just how i used to do in my english test....."oh ...cause it doesn't feel righr here in the sentence so it should be wrong" 😁😁😂

that kid with the glasses is so precious

thanks for sharing sir,

I feel like recently, I can actually understand the feelings of the people's voices when they speak in Japanese, it's not just a jumble of words anymore. It's become an actual part of my brain, and I can't stop it!

I am currently studying for the JLPT N4 exam, and I've seen this video before but looking back at it now, it's good to see I was able to answer the first 3 questions correctly. I was able to read the first short passage about the mountain climbing and understand it wholly but queation 4, the last short passage was where my limited kanji knowledge became an obstacle. As Japanese language learners from outside, we usually wonder how Japanese people learn Japanese and how much could they understand at certain ages. These are elementary kids, they were able to answer the questions correctly, but some of them were unsure and some got them wrong. They use the same thinking of, "This is the correct answer because: a. They know for sure how the word is used, b. They know for sure the others choices are how not the word is used and c. The other choices sound weird. This just tells me not to get too hasty with learning, because even Japanese people had to learn these as well. But they have the advantage of time and opportunity to always learn and practice in everyday life.

It's nice watching the kids answer the questions, it brings back memories. Being a Nikkeijin I had to take the JLPT, because Japanese was not the native language that I was using as I grew up. The fact that I had taken IELTS, Eiken and Goethe Zertifikat at a younger age before taking JLPT, now I don't know what my native language is. To my annoyance, my relatives would always use our prefecture's dialect when talking to me while I use Hyōjungo, so I always feel out of place. As a form of revenge I use archaism instead even when we are in public. It's like Hyōjungo but with pronouns and sentence ending from the Edo period.

Althogh I have passed N1 test about 10 years ago, I think the forth question is a little bit difficult. Choice 1,2,3 are all correct, but they are not written in the paragragh in detail. By the way, the first girl looks quite cute and intelligent. I wish if she could be a teacher when she is grown up.

Only tripped up on the last one. That was fun though. I feel somewhat validated that I got the same score as a couple of the kids haha.

Everyone: *gets correct* I was struggling between option 1 or 3! Spec kid in blue sweater: *always correct* THERE IS ONLY A ONE TRUTH! Man, he just gave the answer and doesn't bother to explain most of the time. Why bother to explain to the pleb when there is only true answer?

I remember studying really hard and passing n3 after taking it the 3rd time. I was so confident, i sat out the last 20 mins with a huge smile

Last one was the hardest but I managed to get them all right :-) I had originally planned on taking N3 this summer but decided to postpone. Nice to see that I am fine with the level and the reading of the texts was actually really understandable and easier than the ones in my textbook, which could sometimes be a little gruelling. I just have problems with trusting myself with the multiple choice (in England we don't have a lot of multiple choice tests) so I second guess my answers!

I like the lady soloist. She can explain her reasoning and back up the other answers even incorrect ones. She must be smart and doing well in school.

i passed n4 last december and it was so exiting and fun. so i wanted to do n3 this summer but because of corona i canceld this plan. got all questions right so its extra frustrating. the kids were so adorable and smart.

I am gooing to try my first JLPT (N4) in July, but I am so happy I got questions 1 and 2 right! 3 and 4 I honestly didn't try because the text woudl've taken me half an hour to read haha Also, this girl explaining each possible answer and why they are wrong as opposed to the one which is right: GIVE HER A JLPT TEACHNG SECTION ON YOUR CHANNEL! This is literally the best way to teach japanese in my opinion (to people who already know the basics). Please do more of this! Having example questions which explanations for each possible answer is sooo good!

I just signed up to take N3 in July (assuming it doesn't get cancelled). I got all 3 questions in this right, but not with 100% certainty. That makes me a bit nervous for the test.

Were some of the interviews by the "Green Frog" train in Shibuya? I just saw it referenced in the game "428 Shibuya Scramble", so it's cool to see if so.

they are so cuteeee

This was quite an eye opener as I got them all right despite not knowing some of the kanji. I suppose there will be harder questions than this in the actual exam, but I think if you apply common sense and expose yourself enough to the language you can at the very least take very educated guesses. As soon as I passed N4 I stopped studying cause I got lazy, but maybe it's time to continue.

These kids are adorable

Lol jlpt n3 feels like a pipe dream to me and these kids out here sounding like they have PhDs and teach college XD

It looks like a very difficult language tp learn the written part more so but I love Japan especially Osaka.

Oh boy, I'm kinda nervous to watch this. I've passed JLPT N4 last year and I felt like I got away with murder on that one. Still need to work, my kanji knowledge SUCKS. SO bad. But yeah I feel like if I pass N3 one day and I do it convincingly, I'll be quite satisfied.

now I'm curious if they'd have any more difficulty with N2. I'm making my way through the N2 grammar right now and it's really not that different from the N3 grammar. There is a bit more nuance but most it doesn't seem like a big leap from N3 to N2, at least as far as grammar.

God bless these cute, polite children.

Didn’t know what I was expecting but there voices were really different then I expected

I'm wondering if there's a typo with the kanji (短期) at 2:42 and 3:21? I think it should be 短気? I got confused while they were explaining haha!

I took N3 a couple years ago and I plan to take N2 this year, but I learned quite a lot from the detailed explanations. They expressed very clearly the nuances of phrases where even if I got the answer right I wasn't necessarily 100% sure.

these kids are awesome the US has a lot of work to do on its education system I read we are like 2-3 years behind other countries

Wow

2:04 under lockdown I got this haircut by keeping a bowl on my head and asking my roomate to trim around it

i've already learned N5, but I don't practicing again and again same one cause it feels interesting, vocabulary isn't that tough once you fully know entire N5 kanji list. 私は勉強しています。well I found different vocabulary words from different kanji level. I might try and forming more grammatical sentences since i'm still learning to form sentences. (it's really fun to learn once you've learned how to read and write them)

Some day I'll be able to speak at N3 level I have long roads to take. Those two girls with pink mask is so kawaii.

Did you tell the kids who the exam is for, if so what did they think about foriegn adults taking it?

Ooh so interesting!

Damn. JLPT1 here but because I self studied I never took proper classes and learnt stuff like 対義語 and 逆説. Thanks to the girl at 2:50!

The first question about 今ごろ; it seems a lot of English materials are incorrectly or only partially explaining it as "these days", but based on the question featured, as well as other Japanese examples online, 今ごろ means more of a supposition. The answer translates roughly to "the cherry blossoms should be blooming in Tokyo around this time", but a person who was told that 今ごろ means "nowadays" would choose number 3, roughly meaning "there aren't a lot of purchases made using cash these days". It's interesting because the question stumped the kids more than the others.

私がインタビューされたら、 11歳で6年生です。 算数と英語です。

I love YOU Yuta mwah mwah mwah

Wow. I feel happy that I can understand as much as the kids do at least. I feel like at least that gives you a big foundation to stand on to improve. (Also maybe I'm just a good guesser)

Can't believe how much I understood without subtitles!