I'm wondering if MOE will actually allow Jingfang and I to take the 'O' level exam for Jap...we don't take 3rd language at the MOELC after all, and they probably doubt our ability in the language. I hope they'll actually let us take a diagnostic test or something before actually deciding whether to let us in our not!! We wouldn't be so confident about taking 'O' levels for Jap if we knew nothing more than a few phrases. They should have vacancies...it's a fact that a lot of ppl drop their 3rd lang by the time they reach sec 3. I hope JF and I qualify for sec 3 standard in Jap!! Though we will have to pick up some new words and stuff...what they learn in 3rd lang classes is different from what we learn from manga, mags and Jap novels...There are some things we know that they don't, and some things they know that we don't...
Mrs Seet is in charge of 3rd lang right? ( I think...she seems so involved in 3rd lang stuff)...Jingfang and I are going to see her about it soon--the sooner, the better. I'm still kind of nervous about it, but I really want to try my hand at the 'O' levels, provided my Jap is good enough. I'll need to brush up a little more on grammar and vocab, but I know I have improved a lot over the past year or so, thanks to the Jap books! It's so much easier to read Jap sites now :) I don't have to pick up my dictionaries as often as before.
But with regards to honorifics like irrashaimasu/itadakimasu etc...needs more work.