さくぶん

PE 2 Reflection and PE 3 Goals

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)

Because of the ワールドシリーズ, I decided to rewatch episodes of some of my favorite スポーツアニメ, including テニスの王子様, アイシールド21, and メジャー。I particularly enjoyed watching メジャー because of the ワールドシリーズ OVA that I hadn’t seen yet. I also got addicted to some of メジャー’s ending themes, such as 心絵。

秋休みにサンフランシスコにかえりませんでした。せんしゅうにサンフランシスコのきょじんはワールドシリーズに勝った！ I was sad that I couldn’t go back home to celebrate. All my friends in サンフランシスコwere very excited to see them win.冬休みにうちにかえりますso I won’t get to see my friends back home until then.

Instead, I stayed at プリンストンduringハリケーンサーンデイ。It wasn’t too bad, as the power was only out briefly before プリンストンswitched to emergency power. I made sure to stock up on food and water before it hit, so everything was fine. わたしのルームメートうちにかえりました、so it was a little boring since I couldn’t go outside or anything. In addition, しゅくだいをしませんでした、so I’m going to have to work hard to finish everything I was supposed to do over break. Hopefully I’m not the only one.

おはようございます、みなさん。すみませんfor taking so long to post. さくばん、くじごろねましたsince I was feeling sick. きんようびによくアニメクラブをいきます、でもせんしゅういきませんでしたbecause I was not feeling well that night either. せんしゅうまつ、りょうでべんきょうしました。そして、しゅくだいをしました。どようびに、パギスさんとわたしpracticed for the にほんごのちゅうかんテスト。さくばんにルームメイトとわたしレストランでばんごはんをたべました。

じゃあね、

ジュー  

PE 2 Goals:

·         Place extra emphasis on remembering the pitch patterns for words when studying

·         Try to watch more Japanese videos (should not be that difficult since I’ve recently joined the 

       Anime/Manga club with コールさんand カートンさん so I’ll be watching at least 2-3 hours a 

       week ^_^) and listen to more Japanese songs

·         Make attempts to speak to my fellow classmates in Japanese