Revised Writing Assignment

私は毎日ゲームをするので、このゲ−ムについてかきます！

じつは、毎日ゲームをします。とてもおもしろいですが、ちょうっとむずかしかったです。でも、とてもだいすきですよ！

こんしゅうのゲームは。。。

真・三國無双ですよ！

ええ？三国無双は何ですか？三国志は中国のとても有名な時でした。そのときの一番ゆうめいな人はリュウ　ベイとグワン　ユウとジュゲ　リヤでした。

私の一番大好きな人はジュゲ　リヤンです。かれは三国志の一番賢い人なので、とてもゆうめいな人でした。

このゲームはアクションゲームですよ。二人のプレイヤのゲームなので、ともだちとゲームをします。

東方

東方というゲームがあります。聞いた？本当に面白いが、とても難しいね。このゲームのタイプのなまえは「弾幕」。たくさん弾丸があって、弾丸を回避するので、とても優しくないよ。でも、本当に楽しいです。実は、このゲームをするの時は、僕の目が痛い。

東方はZUNを作りました。ZUNさんはとても有名な人だよ。このゲームはすべての音楽とアートとプログラミングはZUNさんをつくりました。とても有能な人だよ。これは東方のゲームプレーのサンプル。



そのパターンはとても綺麗だね。音楽も、とても綺麗だね。このゲームが大好きだよ。

これは最後のスクレーンショット：

新しいアニメ

これは新しいアニメですよ。名前は「Guilty Crown」。少年の特別の力があるので、彼女のために戦う。少年の名前は桜満集。少女の名前は楪いのり。少年の力の名前は「王の力」ですよ。彼は毎人のボイドを引き出すことができます。ボイドは毎人の心の本当の形状です。例えば、いのりさんのボイドはとても大きい剣です。

アニメはとても面白いですが、実は、集さんのことがあまり好きじゃありません。

新しいゲームの歌。

これは新しいゲーム（ファイナルファンタジーXIII-2)の歌。




「約束の場所」です。ふくい舞の声はとても綺麗ですね。

今のゲーム

僕は毎日ゲームをするので、このゲ−ム似ついてかきます！

実は、毎日ゲームをします。とても面白いですが、ちょうっと難しかったでした。でも、とてもだいすきですよ！

こんしゅうのゲームは。。。

真・三國無双ですよ！

ええ？三国無双は何ですか？三国志は中国のとても有名な時でした。あのときの一番有名な人は:

リュウ　ベイ


グワン　ユウ


ジュゲ　リヤン

私の一番大好きな人はジュゲ　リヤン。彼は三国志の一番賢い人ので、とても有名な人でした。

このゲームはアクシオンゲームですよ。とてもあの私意ですねえ。２−プレヤのゲームなので、ともだちとゲームをする。

これはゲームの写真。


きれいですねえ？

僕の友達

今晩、僕は友達とスカイプをしました！今年は彼女とあまり話しませんでした。とても残念でした。でも、彼女をみるのはとてもよかったでしょ。

こん冬休みはとても楽しいですよ！期待すますよ！

You completed Cycle 2. おめでとう！(Congratulations!) Please reflect on the cycle. You will write what exercises in your plan that you did, how successful you were in achieving your goals, what difficulties you encountered, etc.
Cycle 3 is the last cycle of PE in this semester. Think what aspects in your pronunciation/speaking/listening you want to improve more by the end of this semester. Then, write your goals to improve your pronunciation (focusing on prosody), speaking and listening. Also, write concrete activities to achieve these goals.

I feel that this Cycle I have started encountering some minor issues with my usage of pitch, particularly at the end of the sentences. Usually, I feel that I can more or less grasp the intonation intuitively, but I felt that particularly with the usage of the dictionary form, I was beginning to have some trouble with the pitch at the end of the questions. Also, I have realized that my ability to speak Japanese on the spot when I answer questions is rather slow, and I feel that I can vastly improve this in the next cycle. Unfortunately, I was unable to do the anime shadowing exercises that I had planned for this Cycle. However, my other goals, I felt were reasonably well met.

I feel that as always, my listening skills are relatively well off, and as such don't require much practice from my input. However, my pronunciation is going to have to get a little better, especially with respect to the pitch endings of questions with the dictionary form. My speaking is a little too halting for my taste, and I'm going to definitely try to get comfortable just answering questions without too much of a break between responses. In order to accomplish these goals, I'm going to shadow at least twice or three times anime so that I can get a sense of what the natural way of saying a lot of common phrases is. As far as speaking, I recently discovered my hall mate speaks fluent japanese, so I've been talking with her in Japanese, and I feel like that's a significant help towards my fluency and comfortableness with the language.

Goals for Cycle 2

My goals for this Cycle are going to focus primarily on the pronunciation of Japanese words. I seem to have fluency with general conversational skills, but I've recently noticed a lack of consistency with my ending of sentences occasionally having an irregular ending - Shibata-sensei noticed as much on my oral exam, and I'm pretty sure that she's right. Also, I'm not quite settled with the pronunciation of some japanese words, particularly those with many moras. As a result, I'm just going to have to pay a lot more attention to the way the words are written in the book with the intonation bars overhead. I'm usually good at guessing the intonations based on feeling, but I think I'm going to have to pay a lot more attention now. As far as getting the intonations correctly, I'm going to just listen to a lot more of songs and do more extra shadowing with some anime. I think as far as listening goes, I'm pretty good - although I might start to watch some anime raw (without subtitles) to test how I'm going with anime.

Emoticons Continued.

Table flip: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Alarmed table flip: (┛◉Д◉)┛彡┻━┻
Angry table flip: (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
Putting the table back: ┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
Whut: ¬_¬
R u srs/rlly: ಠ_ಠ
zzzzzz: (￣。￣)～ｚｚｚ
Le drool: °٢°
Butterfly: Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
Innocent: ʘ‿ʘ
sjfsjl: (°ロ°)☝
Oh joy: ಥ⌣ಥ
Kawaii kawaii: (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ
Yay~: ヽ(゜∇゜)ノ
Wat: (″･ิ_･ิ)っ
WhAt WAs ThAT: ∑(゜Д゜;)
Win: (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞
Dog 1: •ᴥ•
Dog 2: ●ᴥ●
Dog 3: ☻ᴥ☻
Me is friendly: (´･ω･`)
: 3:<`∀´>
Wae: <丶´Д｀>
Wae 2: （ ；´Д｀）
Happy: ∧∧
Idek: ┐('～`；)┌
MY OVARIES: (*´Д`)ﾊｧﾊｧ
Woah..: ( ﾟдﾟ)
Le tear: （ つ Д ｀）
Angel: ☜(⌒▽⌒)☞
SPARKLEZZZZ: (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
Bombs: ( ・_・)ノ⌒●~*

とても可愛いですね。

Self-Reflection

You completed Cycle 1. おめでとう！(Congratulations!) Please reflect on the cycle. You will write what exercises in your plan that you did, how successful you were in achieving your goals, what difficulties you encountered, etc.
You just took the midterm oral exam. Please self-evaluate your performance of the oral exam in terms of your language use, pronunciation, fluency, communication skills, etc. What positive aspects did you have in your performance? What points do you think you need to improve?
You may write the statement in English or/and in Japanese.

I felt reasonably accomplished with my finishing of the goals that I set for myself, considering that I did in fact get a chance to do the anime shadowing that I had intended to do. Considering that Shibata-sensei even told me that it was a very hard passage to shadow, I felt that I was very much satisfied with the results that came as a result of it. There were no real difficulties that I encountered in my fulfilling of the goals this cycle, and I truly feel that my fluency in the language improved as a result. Speaking of which, the oral exam, I think went very very well! ^_^ My language use was fairly accurate, although we did go off the script quite a bit considering that Shibata-sensei pulled a fast one on us and changed the topic to something entirely different. But I felt that we recovered very well as a result of it. ~<. But here's to a great second cycle!

-Yammy

ぼくのしゅまつ

せんしゅまつぼくのちちとははがきました。ぼくたちわ鍼治療にいきました。ぼくの足首わいたいです。でも、いまわ痛くない。でも、いまわ痛くない。大丈夫です！

私のゴル

My goals for this pronunciation exercise are to become significantly more fluent in my speech, and to be able to pronounce particular phrases or sounds that fairly difficult for me, like "r" and the unvoiced consonants, with more technique and correctness. I also hope to be able to learn to use the proper pitches and intonations naturally that a native speaker would use in their speech.

To accomplish these goals, I am going to continue with the multiple shadowing exercises, as well as attempt the tongue twisters (I will get level 3!). As I watch anime frequently, I will memorize at least a couple of my more favorite lines from the anime that I love and learn the proper intuitions and pronunciations for all of them. Finally, as I listen to a great deal of Japanese music, I intend to start to sing along to those songs (alone, of course) in an attempt to learn how they pronounce the words currently.

がんばれ！

かおもじ

I'm actually not a stranger to the many Japanese emoticons that we were exposed to today - I've actually seen quite a number of them online before, with stuff like this:

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

(́一◞౪◟一‵)

ლ(́ಢ.◞౪◟ಢ‵ლ)

( ́ ◕◞ε◟◕`)

(́≖◞౪◟≖‵)

I think they're adorable.

とてもかわいだよ〜

でも、How on earth did people come up with the original ideas for these かおもじ?!

わからない。。。

はじめまして

わたしはヤミです。プリンしとんだいがくのいちねんせえです。あめりかじんです。わたしのははとちちうえわミャンマーからきました。ニュジャシからきした。どおぞよるしく！

こんいちわ

はじめまして、やみ(Yammy)です。

どうぞよるしく！

My "real" name is Yam Leinahtan (which is really my birth name backwards - should provide a clue to who I actually am) and I'm a Princeton freshman in Japanese 101! I decided to take Japanese because I really enjoy reading manga and watching anime (which are Japanese comics and TV shows, respectively) and I wanted to be able to understand them without having to read subtitles. I really enjoy listening to spoken Japanese and would love to speak it myself. Also, I hope to be able to go on some internships in Japan for my intended concentration, which is ORFE, for which actually learning the language will definitely be a big help. I'm not having a lot of trouble with learning Japanese, but sometimes, remembering which hiragana character corresponds to the sound that I want to make is a little difficult... Oh well, practice makes perfect!

でわ、さよなら！