日本の方々　日本語　ちゃんと使ってほしいと思うですが　part 7 The association which administers the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) 日本語能力試験 puts english words into the test every year, trying to force foreigners to accept their belief that these words are now japanese words. I asked some japanese friends and co-workers one of the questions that appeared in last december's test. The question asked to choose the most correct word for a certain sentence, from the following options 'sense, nuance, scale and conscious' all in katakana of course. Of the 5 japanese people I asked, only 2 chose the correct answer. The JLPT association is wrong and unprofessional to try to test our understanding of english words. Their job is to evaluate our understanding and proficiency of japanese. Inserting english words into the JLPT also unfairly disadvantages the non-english speaking foreigners who take the test, as they usually dont have as thorough an understanding of these english words as english speakers do. And they have the audacity to charge us 5000 yen to take the test. I and many others ,not only foreigners but free-thinking, aware Japanese people also, wish that all Japanese people (those who automatically imitate what they hear on tv or what others say,) and the mass media, would have more pride in their own unique and beautiful language, remember who they are, and just laugh at the pretenders, instead of copying them.