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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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Weekend Before Midterms

こんばんは

　　　　　わたしはしゅまつにたくさんべんきょしました。　With midterms coming up, I thought it was important to devote a lot of time to reviewing material from class. きんようびとかようびににほんごのテストがあります。 However, I also felt it was also important to decompress and not stress too much.　わたしはあにめのイベントにいきました。I watched an anime called Puella Magi Modoka Magica (魔法少女まどか☆マギカ). いいです。えとう、that's all I have to say for now. I'm learning more and more Japanese まいにち so I'll keep working towards a blog post completely in にほんご。Until then, I guess you'll have to bear with my odd mixture of English and Japanese. すみません！

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オヒワリ

 Puella Magi Madoka Magica

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Opening Theme Song (2)

 

　　　　　

My First Goal Statement!!!

おはよう

Today I'm posting to set a goal for myself. For this week's PE excercise, I decided to team up with はうりさん to make a recording of a conversation. My primary goal is to speak with a speed and rhythm similar to that of a native Japanese speaker. If at times my pronunciation is off, that's okay. I want to focus on making the words come out at the right pace so I can work on my articulation later. In terms of activity goals, I want to go to office hours at least twice this week and attend the language table. I also need to figure out a more effective way to study. Well, that's about it. Wish me luck!

おひわり

Self Introduction