Goals:
(Considering the fact that I was not able to fulfill most of my goals last semester such as understand 80% of the animes I am watching or engage in conversations with strangers, I would like to try to be modest this time)
I want to be able to talk to a Japanese person for 20 minutes on a non-engaging topic such as hobbies, schedules, weather, Princeton, etc.
I want to understand the topic of a conversation between two native speakers and generally what each person's claims are
I want to learn more vocabulary that is used in everyday speech between teenagers such as girlfriends/boyfriends, parties, classes, etc.
I want to have a slightly less noticeble foreign accent when I talk in Japanese
Activities:
Go to Japanese table at least every other week, although I will probably come more frequently and talk to the students there
Talk to my friends who have taken more advanced Japanese classes
Go to Shibata sensee's office at least 4 times this semester
Talk to the exchange grad students that I see so often in the dining halls in Japanese
Watch anime every other week and identify single words by matching them to their translation in the subtitles
Anime shadow while doing this
Eavesdrop on conversations between Japanese people in the East Asian Library