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Speaking Russian at work: the results.

By Grant Grigorian | Published: December 2, 2007
About a month ago, I talked about being nervous and excited about an opportunity to use Russian at work. Here is how it went. My mission was to travel to a manufacturing plant in Philadelphia and explain employee benefits for next year to the company’s Russian speaking workers. Given that employee benefits (things like health and [...]
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Another Japanese Test and suddenly having to improve my Russian

By Grant Grigorian | Published: October 7, 2007
While browsing all things Japanese online, I can across another Japanese language proficiency test. This one is administered by JETRO and is called Business Japanese Proficiency Test (“BJT”). Apparently, it too has credibility in the market place. I guess it doesn’t matter which test I take (though I am inclined to take both), as long as [...]
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Learning Japanese: Starting From Scratch

By Grant Grigorian | Published: July 19, 2007
I took a sample JLPT yesterday and realized that I need to start studying Japanese all over again, from the beginning. My goal this year will be to pass the “Level 4″ exam. The next step is to create a plan of study I can execute before the day of the test.
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Japanese Language Proficiency

By Grant Grigorian | Published: July 16, 2007
It’s hard to believe that it has been 11 years since I seriously studied Japanese, and 12 years since I left Japan. During this time, I felt the language slowly wither away – every time I would watch a Japanese movie or TV I would notice that I understood less and less. It would be a [...]
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