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NUMBER OF JAPANESE-LANGUAGE LEARNERS around the world according to a 2009 survey by the Japan Foundation.
Who applies for the JLPT
Reasons for taking the JLPT test
Number of Kanji and reading level
1,000 Schoolchild1,945 Good reader3,000 Excellent reader6,000 Kanji expert50,000 Specialist
If you understand the basic 1,000 characters you can read about 90% of the kanji used innewspapers and newspapers and about 60% with 500 characters.
90%
Sourceshttp://www.worldmapper.org/display_languages.php?selected=596 http://japanese.about.com/library/blqow27.htmhttp://www.jlpt.jp/e/statistics/index.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language
www.readthekanji.com
www.facebook.com/readthekanjiwww.twitter.com/readthekanji
3,217 Teachers worldwideteaching Japanese to foreign-language learners.
Since 1984, the number of Japanese learnersoverseas has increased more than
= one million people
Japanese is spoken by roughly 126 million people in about 18 territories.
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FOREIGN-LANGUAGE LEARNERS OF JAPANESE
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