Reflection on speaking goals
Half way through the semester, its time to reflect on my speaking goals and review how I'm doing. I don't think that any of my goals have changed, but some of the activities that I will use will be a little different.
Goals for the year
Over the course of this year
I hope that my Japanese will become decently natural and fluent, so I
will practice several things to improve.
Goals
1. Be able to speak and understand at speeds near average for Japanese speaker
I think that I have become much better at this.
2. Improve my rhythm and pitch, so that I sound more like a natural speaker
I also think that I am much better at this now.
Methods to be Used
1. Go to Shibata Sensei's office hours at least once ever two weeks (one if possible).
I never even went once :(. I plan to go more office hours over the last half of the semester.
2. Go to Japanese Table every week (I live in Mathey so this will be easy)
I did this! I should make more effort to speak at Japanese table though, not just eat.
3. Do anime shadowing at least every three days every week.
I ended up doing this once a week. On the recommendation of しばた先生 I will now start doing
some of the interactive parts of the "speak easy."
4. Watch an episode of a fun Japanese show (anime or otherwise) once a week
I did this!
じゃまね
ジャック オルフグラム