Goals!!! Part 3

あけましておめでとうございます！
New year, new me. I've accomplished the goals I set for myself earlier this year. I learned how to speak more words and in a grammatically correct way in Japanese, so I feel like I accomplished my first goal. It's still difficult to translate what I am thinking of saying from English to Japanese in my head, though. I can hold conversations in Japanese with other people. There are a couple of fluent Japanese speakers in my hall who I talk to a lot, so they have helped me with this goal immensely. I've watched anime and started to stop reading the English subtitles, plus I shadow the characters sometimes. I have only attended a couple of language tables this semester, so I feel like I need to attend more for next semester. I have found more Japanese songs to sing along to. That's all for now, see you guys later.

トッピクはしゅみです

こんにちは、みなさん。あけましておめでとうごさいます。ふゆ休みのあいだに私はえにきょうみをもちました。小さい時から今までえをかきました。人とたてものをかくのが好きです。私はしんけんなえかきではありません。私はほかに何もすることがないときだけえをかきました。でも、ふゆ休みのあいだに、たくさんえをかきました。こちらのえはどうですか。

JPN Letter to Family Member

The blog wouldn't accept pdf versions and I had a pdf of my letter but I was finally able to change it into a jpeg. So here is my letter. It is not late lol

Post Thanksgiving

今日は、みなさん。先週はサンクスギビングの休みです。私はテキサスにかえりました。かぞくとともだちにあって、たくさんたべものをたべました。りょうしんは大きいターキーをつくって、みんなをたべました。休みはとてもみじかいです。じゃあ、またね。

Goals Part 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

今日は、hello! Here are my reflections on how I have been practicing Japanese so far, and some adjusting to my goals.

I have been able to have more and longer conversations in Japanese, which is wonderful. I can say and remember more words in Japanese, which is wonderful as well. My speaking speed is still relatively slow, but it's steadily improving. Which is wonderful too.

To practice shadowing, I have been watching anime. A lot. Owarimonogatari. Like wow, Nishio Ishin is a straight mastermind. 10/10 would recommend. 2nd season of Noragami is pretty good, and One Punch Man is ridiculously silly. If there are any other anime shows to watch out for this season, help a brotha out and comment!

I've been going to a few language tables, and I listened to the songs suggested in the other post, they're real good.

So my pronunciations are getting better, and I'm still a little slow but by keeping up the activities that I had set for myself, I think I will be able to improve both of those in time. Keep it real fam, see y'all later. じゃ、また！

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こんいちは、here are some goals I have set in order to improve my Japanese:

Picking up Japanese words more easily. I would like to speak Japanese more naturally and at a faster speed, and to do that I want to be more familiar with Japanese words in my head before I speak them.

Having a conversation with other people. This goes hand in hand with me aiming to be more familiar with Japanese words and phrases. I want to be able to converse with other people in Japanese and talk about stuff without awkwardly pausing to think how to think what I want to say in Japanese in my head.

In order to achieve these goals, I plan on doing the following activities:

Watch anime once or more per week, and shadow along with the characters.

Attend the language tables once a week and talk to the other students/teachers in Japanese, except when I have events at the same time that I cannot miss.

Find Japanese music/songs to sing along to, one or more song per week. Suggestions are welcome.

Hopefully, those will improve my Japanese skills. じゃ、また。