Reflection

おはようございます。
It has been seven weeks in Japanese 101 and I think I have learned a huge amount in that time. I feel that I have improved quite a bit from the very beginning and my goals have helped me. Some of my goals was to speak accurately and precisely even if I do not speak fast. To do this I said I would shadow videos several times a week. I have tried to keep up with this goals and have shadowed at least once a week. I think my speaking has become more accurate even though it is somewhat slow. I also said that i wanted to be a better listener. To do this I said I would watch anime. I have been watching more than one episode a day for a couple weeks now and I have slowly been able to pick out more and more words. They are still few and far in between but I think I am seeing a slight improvement there. My future goals are to hear and understand fast sentences and in order to do this I will go to office hours at least once a week. I will also keep watching anime. I also want to be able to write what I hear directly in hirigana/katakana/kanji because I have to write the words in English first. To practice this I will go through the listening exercises in the book and try writing as much as I can. I'm still not the best at Japanese and as I focus on other certain areas like memorizing vocab and spelling my other areas such as speaking do not improve but I will try to round out my studying and get better at all sides of this language!

じゃ、また。