As of Monday, I began my Second Semester here at Princeton. Not only that, but I began Japanese 102. This is going to be a tough class but I am ready to take it on. For this semester I have a few goals:
- Stuttering: Over the last semester and even now I seem to have a large problem where I stutter while trying to come up with the words to say. This semester I want to fix this. I think the best way to do so is to practice with my 先生 at their office hours and get faster at using the vocabulary that I know. I will also try to spend more time going back over old vocab.
- Accuracy: My second goal for this semester is to speak each of my sentences in an accurate way. I want to pronounce the sentences so that all of the tones and particles as well as the set-up is correct. It does not have to be very fast but I want it to be precise. This is a really large goal that will probably take up most of my time and I will only make oh so much progress. But I am looking forward to the challenge.
As the semester continues I plan on trying to shadow once or twice a week as well as keep watching anime. I am on the second series of Naruto and it is getting quite good. Hopefully this, with office hours, will help me improve my speaking dramatically. Uh-oh, 私は ためより先生で 会います。
じゃ、また。