Friday, November 08, 2019

Clearing up the OF178 issue; waiting again.

On November 4th, I contacted the personnel office to ask for direction on how to get that OF178 filled out. They directed me to the Hawaii CPAC (civilian personnel action center?), which arranged an appointment with the occupational health specialist at Tripler.

So instead of going back and forth between my primary care provider and neurologist, I have appointments on the 21st and 22nd that will (hopefully) clear all this up.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi, I searched 'Japanese DLPT' and your blog came up. I'm looking to DLPT Japanese and was wondering at what level your were to obtain a 1+/1+? How much kanji did you have to know and how much do you need to know in order to obtain a 2/2 rating? Thanks.

- said...

It's been -- I think -- 8 or 9 years since I took the Japanese DLPT, so I don't remember much at this point. Nevertheless, I'll tell you my experience.

I took two years (4 semesters) of Japanese in college from 1996 to 1998, and probably knew about 500 kanji by sight during that time.

From 2005-2006, I studied Chinese as part of my graduate school program, and did a three month internship in Shanghai.

Then in 2011, after I'd joined the Army and had loads of free time during my deployment, I used Rosetta Stone to refresh my memory. That was where I was at when I took the DLPT, and I was fairly happy to get a 1+/1+.

The best thing I can tell you is to use the DLIFLC's GLOSS website. It's free, and focuses exclusively on the reading and listening modes. If you can do well at the Level 2 exercises, that's a good indicator of how well you'll do on the DLPT.

https://gloss.dliflc.edu/

Best wishes.