Reflection:
- I am now slightly better at speaking in a faster pace and mimicking the pitch pattern of long words (and not confusing it with stress)
- I have also improved the skills to nasalize my speech in order to sound a bit more natural.
- I have been attending the Japanese table and plan to continue to do so
- Anime shadowing on my own once every week was a bit too whimsical, as I could manage it only once every two weeks
Goals/Activities (I guess my goals have become more ambitious now):
- I want to eventually reach a stage in which I can understand 80% of an anime without subtitles
- And... engage in simple conversations about which character is better: Naruto or Sasuke
- Also, I want to be able to read manga in Japanese, it shouldn't be that hard, right?
- In order to do that, at least once a week I will read aloud my textbook and listen to all of the audios, trying to match the intonation 100%
- A super cool thing that I discovered last week is talking to myself: So, I just come up with a Japanese question that has something to do with the chapter and I ask Bo and then Bo responds and asks me a question. すごいですね！
Noooooooooo, Naruto is ending... But it's so cool, but it's ending, but it's so cool, yet it's ending. Two chapters left...
さようなら！
М.Р.М.К.
