My PE goal for this semester
Short-term Goals:
- To improve my intonation and overall naturalness of my speech.
- To be more fluent and comfortable having daily casual conversations in Japanese.
- To be able to understand simple conversations in Japanese anime or TV shows.
Reflection:
- I have been paying more attention to my intonation and word pitch now. However, I still think sometimes I had my pitch/intonation wrong, i.e, my pitch for よかった was off several time as pointed out by 柴田先生. There is still quite some room for improvement.
- As I have tried to have some short casual conversations with my classmates, I am more fluent now than before. Despite this, I still need more practice.
- I think I am able to understand roughly the meaning of some words and simple sentences from the conversations in anime or TV shows. But still there is a long long long way to go.
Activities:
- Go to Japanese table once per two weeks.
- Watch one episode of Japanese anime or videos of Japanese TV show everyday.
- Listen to Japanese songs everyday.
- Try to have a casual conversation in Japanese with friend once every week.
- Go to office hour once per two weeks.
Reflection:
- So far in this semester, I have only been to Japanese table once. Definitely need to go more often!
- I have more or less accomplished this. Just finished watching 機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ.
- I have listened to b'z, AKB48, 乃木坂46 and 宇多田ヒカル quite a bit recently.
- I have more or less done this.
- Failed to go to office hour at this frequency and I think I should definitely go to office hours more often or at least as stated in my goal.