PE2 Reflection + PE3 Goals and Activities

こんばんはみなさん。

わたしはおとといプリンストンのYMCA/YWCAいきました。 There, I met　円山（まるやま）先生, the founder of あいきどのこきかい、which is a particular style of the martial art あいきど。Not only was this a great honor, I was able to learn from the the greatest practitioner of the martial art that I am studying. To give you an idea of what he could do, at 75 years old and 127 pounds he could easily bring down a 6+foot 300 pound man.


Now, back to　わたしのPE2 Reflection + PE3 Goals and Activities.

 PE2 Reflection:

• Working on shadowing more often really helped my pitch patterns, and I am now more aware of the pitch patterns of Japanese words and phrases.
• While PE2 Recording 1 went well, Recording 2 was much more difficult; I would like to find a more affective way of shadowing.
• I was not able to get to しばた先生のOffice Hours, but now that I know I can go just to free speak with しばた先生, I will certainly go more often.
• Going to 日本語テーブル has helped me improve my free speaking skills, but I would like to seek out more to be able to improve further.

PE3 Goals

• I would like to improve the fluency with which I free speak, or even ask and answer questions; sometimes I get held up trying to thing of word order or ぶんぽう、and I would really enjoy speaking fluently what I know how to speak.
• I would like to memorize the pitch patterns of the vocabulary from now on as I memorize the words themselves.

PE3 Activities

• I will continue to attend 日本語テーブル every week that I can, and try to find a partner with whom to practice free speech.
• I will visit  しばた先生のOffice Hours as often as I can schedule.
• I will listen to the vocabulary section of the Lab Activities along with memorizing the vocabulary.

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