Reflections, Goals,and Activities 2

I am truly blown away by how much I have improved in Japanese since I started this course. Of course before I took the class, I knew very little Japanese, but in the course of only a few months, I can already hold up a short conversation in Japanese with a native Japanese speaker! Because I can easily see the results of my studies in Japanese, I have a motivation and drive to continue studying it everyday. Over the past few months I have improved my Japanese not necessarily though pronunciation but vocabulary and fluency. I am more confident in my Japanese and am eager to speak to anyone who will listen to me. My vocabulary has expanded and I can hold up longer sentences where as before I could only say simple short phrases. I am super excited by my improvement in Japanese and am looking forward to my the challenge ahead! がんばりましょう！

My pronunciations continue to be pretty accurate for the most part. I will continue to check my pronunciation with my professors but other than that my most important challenge continues to be to learn the right intonations for future words. I can pronounce all the characters in the alphabet, all I need to know is the right inflection for phrases. This will be a continuous goal in my studies!

As for other goals and activities, I said in my last reflection that I wanted to go to the Japanese language tables more often. I began going to some Japanese language tables but I hope to go to more! I went to the advanced level Japanese table once and actually had a lot of fun so I think I will stick with that one since it is at Forbes and that is where I live. I also mentioned watching more anime and watching RAW versions of anime in my previous goal statements. As for new anime, I have already begun a new series Shingeki no Kyojin and I love it! Sadly I waste a lot of time watching instead of studying but it is worth it. I also began to notice that rather than before, where I would only read the japanese subtitles of animes, I am now picking up more Japanese words from the actual dialogue and not having to read the subtitles. I want to continue to see how much I can understand without reading the subtitles as I continue in my studies and hopefully try and watch an episode without subtitles in the future!

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