PE 2 Reflection:
I feel like I have made
significant progress in both speaking and understanding Japanese in these past
few weeks. Preparing for the oral midterm forced me to really practice speaking
at a natural pace and understanding what other people are saying, and after
finishing it, I realized that I am finally at the point where I feel like I
could have a conversation with someone (a very restricted conversation, but a
conversation nonetheless) rather than simply being able to introduce myself.
Although there is still a long way to go before I will actually feel
comfortable speaking to others in just Japanese, I feel pretty happy about my
current progress.
PE 3 Goals:
·
Work on pitch patterns and sentence intonation
·
Focus on practicing grammar, particularly the
conjugation of adjectives and verbs and use of particles
·
Try to hold more conversations in Japanese with
other people
PE 3
Activities:
·
Remember to listen to the vocabulary sections in
new chapters to familiarize myself with their pitch patterns (I have started
doing this recently and I feel like it helps a lot, although I still have
trouble internalizing the pitch patterns)
·
Actively use grammatical structures that I have
trouble remembering (such as past tense and negative form) in conversation
·
Go to office hours to practice speaking and
listening (particularly listening, as I feel like I have a hard time hearing
what people say when they use words or phrases that I haven’t learned yet)
