A letter to a Japanese friend

あたらしブロゲの どうにゅう

こにちわ！ 私は チンです。いま、プリンストンのだいがぐいんせいです。
たいわん からきました。私の せんこうは こうがくです。

日本のじゅげょうは　とても　おもしろくて、たのしいですよ。ままむずかしで、でも、毎日日本ごをべんきょうします。いぅしょに　がんばって くれませんか！

Revisions and reflections on goals and activities

Goals:

1.      Increase my reading speed on hiragana/katakana. As for now my reading is still very slow, and thus I can’t speak Japanese fluently with this slow reading ability.  I think my speaking can be improved with better Japanese reading.

The reading speed has been improved over the semester with assignments and practices

2.      Understand the basic Japanese grammar. Without knowing the correct grammar, I feel it is very difficult to say a sentence naturally, because I focus too much on the grammar. I will have to be much more familiar with the grammar to speak naturally. 

I am happy that I have learned some basic grammars. Although kind of rusty, but more practices will help me to get familiar with grammars.

3.      Learn useful and functional sentences/vocabularies for daily uses. After all, my goal after this semester is to survive in Japan.  I will need to learn how to ask questions using “What” “When” “Where” “How” and “Who”. 

Getting there. More practices required.

     4.     With my Japanese improved over time, I hope after the semester, I can do an animation shadowing. I have to admit it is extremely difficult to do animation shadowing with my current Japanese proficiency, but I really hope I can at least do a 1 minute animation shadowing after this semester.

 Still trying, but the real speaking speed is still way too fast for me to do shadowing.

Activities to achieve the goals:

1.      Practice writing writing/reading katakana 30 minutes a week to get familiar with them day by day.

2.      Practicing shadowing from “Shadowing. Let’s speak Japanese!” at least 3 times a week, with 20 minutes each time. The difficulty of this material is closer to my current Japanese proficiency and thus it would be great to start from it.

      Revised to 2 times a week. One is at the day before the PE recording, the other is the PE recording.

3.      Learn simple but useful vocabularies 30 min a week from an app on my smartphone. This app provides simple vocabularies as well as useful sentences for beginners.

      

4.      Actively correct my pronunciation by repeating speaking after Google translate.

5  .     Select a animation shadowing on Blackboard as my final goal of this semester, and then try to learn the content and pronunciation every week.  

Still working on it.  

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I don't know why the resolution got so low after uploading, but I hope you can still understand!

Goals and Activites

Goals:

As a beginner in Japanese, my goals for this semester are very simple:

1.      Increase my reading speed on hiragana/katakana. As for now my reading is still very slow, and thus I can’t speak Japanese fluently with this slow reading ability.  I think my speaking can be improved with better Japanese reading.

2.      Understand the basic Japanese grammar. Without knowing the correct grammar, I feel it is very difficult to say a sentence naturally, because I focus too much on the grammar. I will have to be much more familiar with the grammar to speak naturally. 

3.      Learn useful and functional sentences/vocabularies for daily uses. After all, my goal after this semester is to survive in Japan.  I will need to learn how to ask questions using “What” “When” “Where” “How” and “Who”.

4.      With my Japanese improved over time, I hope after the semester, I can do an animation shadowing. I have to admit it is extremely difficult to do animation shadowing with my current Japanese proficiency, but I really hope I can at least do a 1 minute animation shadowing after this semester.

Activities to achieve the goals:

1.      Practice writing writing/reading hiragana and katakana at least 15 minutes every day to get familiar with them day by day.

2.      Practicing shadowing from “Shadowing. Let’s speak Japanese!” at least 3 times a week, with 20 minutes each time. The difficulty of this material is closer to my current Japanese proficiency and thus it would be great to start from it.

3.      Learn simple but useful vocabularies 15 minutes every day from an app on my smartphone. This app provides simple vocabularies as well as useful sentences for beginners.

4.      Actively correct my pronunciation with the help from Google translate.

5.      Select a animation shadowing on Blackboard as my final goal of this semester, and then try to learn the content and pronunciation every week.    

みなさん, こにちわ！

こにちわ！ わたしは ちんです。わたしは たいわん からきました。
わたしの せんこうは こうがくです。いま、わたし はだいがくいんせいです。

JPN 101 start!

Finally determined to learn Japanese! After years of exposure to Japanese animations, I have been planning learning Japanese. Always had excuses in the past, but now it is my last year at Princeton, I know I will be regretful if I don't take action now.

So, here I am, JPN 101!