Reflections at the End of the Semester

ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノこんばんわ

Now that we're done with the fall semester it's time to look back on my goals and activities and to see how I did...


Goals:

• To achieve basic conversational fluency
• I'm still working on this (slowly...)
• Natural pronunciation
• My pronunciation has definitely improved but I still have a ways to go.
• To be able to read hiragana and katakana at a reasonable pace (I read super slowly right now)
• Yes!
• To familiarize myself with the sounds of the Japanese language
• Yes! (For the most part)

Activities:

• Practice pronunciation at least once a week with friends who know more Japanese than I do
• This hasn't been happening as often as I'd hoped (mostly because it's hard to coordinate schedules)
• Pick a new Japanese song every week to listen to repeatedly and attempt to learn some (if not all) of the lyrics
• Yea this didn't happen :( I did listen to Japanese music but I never sang it (couldn't find any slower songs that I liked)
• At least 30 minutes of daily vocab study
• Yes! But I think I should ramp it up more for the next semester.
• Practice reading passages of hiragana and katakana at least twice a week for 15 minutes
• I've done this every once in a while, but not as often as I'd hoped.

I'd say overall I accomplished my goals maybe 75% of the time? So not perfect, but I'm working on it. Here's to having more success next semester!


じゃ・また ~~~ヾ(＾∇＾)