Welcome to the Japanese language self-assessment in listening skills site.
To help you with your self-assessment of listening, we have provided some examples of spoken Japanese material that people can understand when they reach different proficiency levels. We have also provided tasks with each text. These tasks aim to simulate a real-life context in which someone might hear the particular text; they also aim to indicate the kind of information that someone at the proficiency level would be able to understand.
A major reason for presenting these tasks is to reassure you that you can extract useful meaning from a spoken text in Japanese even if you don't understand all the words.
We suggest that, when you have decided on a level that seems like you, you click to hear the examples. Do the tasks and then click to see how well you did. If you did very well, maybe you should go through the same process at a higher level. If you didn't do well, try the level below.
Don't be tempted to 'peek' at the answers before you have tried to do the complete set of tasks that go with the text. That would defeat the purpose. Do not use a dictionary.
This site is still under construction. Additional texts at various levels are being added.