Oh no! Well, everyone seemed to say the test was harder than they expected

My study buddy passed n2 but only by one point

That's really close to passing, then, isn't it? So this year you can pass it for sure? :-)

I'm scared of the JLPT.

Hehe. True!

I'm taking n1 this year, or so I am told.

I have to do a lot of listening practice.

I guess it's just scary because...

My friends all have way too much confidence in me.

They're all expecting me to pass it easily

But I'm not really as good at Japanese as they think I am, so if I fail they'll all be like..

Well, I have no idea, I'm just imagining.

I don't feel like n-whatever is a good way to describe how much Japanese I know

But I should probably learn what I'm supposed to for each level.

As I've mentioned before, I've been trying to fill in the gaps in my knowledge, especially in the basics :-)

I've been hanging out over at English Language Learners

I've answered seven questions! ^-^

I feel all helpful.

It makes sense to me, but not enough sense that I can actually explain it.

For a while I believed you could only claim to understand something if you were capable of explaining it

I think that's probably true... but at the same time, there are things I feel like I "kind of understand"

I wonder how many things I go through life believing I understand, but would be unable to actually explain if you cornered me and asked

xTCx's questions about Sword Art Online made me feel that way. It was all stuff I'd read before, and I suddenly found myself at a loss trying to explain it :-)

Well, there was 101-key standard QWERTY (which became 104-key with the addition of two windows keys and one menu key)

And, the Japanese keyboard I got (from a coworker who came over from Japan and left his keyboard there :-) was a 109-key, which is based on the 101-key layout but with a few added keys

Besides the added keys, there's also kana printed on the keys, and you can switch modes to type kana directly instead of ローマ字 input

From what I understand, however, typing kana like that is less common than just typing ローマ字

So the main benefit of the 109-key layout is the key extra keys for conversion and such.

Though, er, maybe it was 106-key, and became 109-key with the addition of the 2x windows + menu keys.

So, I think 109-key layout and ローマ字 input are normal... but then, some people do other stuff.