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| それは日本語の一年生です。。。 |
みんなさん、私の今学期のゴールを見ましょう！
１。スピード
This semester I hope to work primarily on speed. Hesitation and pauses in my speech often make it sound unnatural and not confident, so I hope to work on this thoroughly.
アップデート: So far this semester, I feel as if the speed of my speech has improved. When looking at my PE comments this semester, しばた先生 has noted a few times that my overall speed has improved (私は嬉しく泣いています!......えも、私は速くなりたいです.)
新しいアップデート： Given that it's the end of the semester, I feel like my speed has improved, albeit slowly. One of my goals in relation to speed for last half of the semester was to work on listening. Often, I had difficultly listening to others speak Japanese at a native-level speed. One activity that helped me improve this was going to the advanced Japanese language table on Monday nights in Forbes. It was very challenging at times to understand everything that was being said, but I felt like it was still helpful for me to get used to that speed level.
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| 私は月曜日の日本語テベールで日本語を聞いていました。 |
Last semester, しばた先生 and I worked on pronouncing my "r's" correctly, as I had trouble speaking without trilling the "r's" similar to Spanish. By the end of the semester, I was able to successfully pronounce words correctly and at a reasonable speed. I would like to continue this practice this semester, and focus on correct pronunciation and pitch as well.
アップデート: Fluency has improved these past few weeks as well. This semester I've had fewer fluency issues during the PEs, though sometimes learning new vocabulary creates some difficulty. All in all, it seems better...今週のPEはちょっとむずかしいですけど。。。
新しいアップデート：Fluency has probably been slowly improving as well, but there are still new issues that arise if we learn particularly challenging grammar like those in both Nakama Chapters 2 and 3. Overall, I think that with しばた先生's comments I have improved some of the more specific issues, such as putting the correct emphasis on conjunctions, using proper spacing, and the へ shape intonation. I think doing the Nakama exercises for some of my Your Choice PE Assignments was one of the best ways to practice this. Also, seeing しばた先生's written comments on my speech script was very beneficial to me when practicing later. I also started watching more anime without reading subtitles in order to try and understand both faster speech and more casual speech.
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| 頑張っています！ |
Besides working on speed and fluency, I want to focus on the complexity of the things I say. It's easy to speak using the easy phrases and grammar structures we learned early on in the semester with proper speed and pronunciation, but it's another to incorporate several different structures and new vocabulary constantly. I think this might be my most important goal, because it blends all three of them together.
アップデート: This has been the most difficult goal to complete so far, just because each week we learn more and more complex structures. Overall though, I feel as if I've made progress, albeit slow. I've gone to the Japanese language table more consistently, which I think has been really important to my progress.
アップデート: This has been the most difficult goal to complete so far, just because each week we learn more and more complex structures. Overall though, I feel as if I've made progress, albeit slow. I've gone to the Japanese language table more consistently, which I think has been really important to my progress.
新しいアップデート： Going to both the Monday and Tuesday Japanese Language tables at least once a week was probably one of the most helpful activities I did consistently for the last half of the semester. It helped me practice the new grammar structures and I was also able to interact with others both at my level and at a very advanced level. Overall, I definitely need to keep working on raising the level of the complexity of my speech, given that we know how to say a lot now, and I will continue to work on these goals over the summer during PII.
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| 今私は日本語の試験を勉強しています。。。 |
