おいしいだいふく！

とてもかっこいいおんがくビデオ！

PE Reflection

        I really have liked these PE exercises. They vary from week to week, switching between listening and speaking exercises, and I definitely feel my familiarity with the Japanese language growing as I do them more and more. In terms of speaking exercises, I've done two conversations and a tongue twister exercise. I like the conversation exercises since it helps me to work on basic communication skills that I can't develop on my own. The tongue twisters were fun though. My roommates made fun of how silly they sounded when I was working on them in my dorm. We still joke around about it every now and then. I've noticed my ability to pronounce Japanese words grow along with a significant boost to my speed, which I am very proud of. However, I'm still not at the natural-speaker level yet even with words and phrases I know. My goal for the rest of the semester will be to improve the overall naturalness of my speaking by working with the harder PE shadowing materials such as anime, going to Office Hours 3-5 times a week, attending language table every week, and working with my Japanese tutor. By the end of the semester, I want to be able to speak the material I know with the ease of a native speaker!

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I'm back from あきやすみ！

おはよう、

　　　あきやすみはいいですした。わたしはうちにかえりました。ニュージャージーのプレインスボロからきました。わたしはたくさんあにめをみました。そしてまいばんたくさんねました。わたしはピッツバーグ大学とメリーランド大学にいきました。わたしはともだちをあいました。As you can see, I did a lot over fall break. Not only was I able to relax a lot at home (which involved watching very large quantities of anime), but I was also able to visit some of my friends at their colleges. I really appreciated having such a long あきやすみ. It gave me a lot of time to recover from midterms and reflect on how I can do better in this last half of the semester. Now I'm ready to hit the ground running. がんばって！

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