Monday, November 7, 2011

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.