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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for the insight! 
DC used to write Hiragana and Katakana, and Grade 1 Kanji (has a certificate of 漢字検定10) so Level 1 Japanese seems manageable.  We will spend this summer brushing up to remember what DC has forgotten.  
Immersion schools are not option for us (we cannot move).  
I thought that if DC can read/write up to Grade 3 Kanji, Level 3 credit test can be targeted eventually.  DC is very fluent in speaking Japanese, but DC need to gain much more vocabularies to comprehend the contents that are beyond daily conversation.  
I am trying to find sample Level 1-3 credit tests (willing to pay if available) to see the actual level required, but am unsuccessful.     [/quote]

I don't know what is on the test. I only know what the Japanese Teacher at Carson told me when I asked about what an Immersion kid needs to know to be successful in the immersion Japanese class offered that the school. She placed an emphasis on knowing the alphabets cold. I know that the immersion program at the school is taught in math and science so that is the vocabulary that the kids know best. I know that they don't cover grammar rules and the like in the ES immersion program. I would guess that the language tests include knowledge of the alphabet, grammar, vocabulary, written comprehension, and verbal comprehension.

I am not certain what taking the test to get credit for 1 year of Japanese gets you. Colleges want to see kids with 2-5 years of the same language so a year of Japanese and a few years of Spanish isn't going to do much for your child. I would imagine taking the test in order to place into a higher level of the same language would be useful. Testing at a level that would allow you into 4th year of Japanese might be different but I am not sure how colleges look at testing out of language vs taking a language on a transcript. [/quote]

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