In terms of goals, I still want to reach for the same results, but the 6 things that I want to do to reach these goals should be revised into something that I can manage to accomplish, no matter how busy my week is.
いち Watch children's Japanese cartoons at least 1 hour each week. Because I love watching cartoons anyways, I have been keeping up with this and plan to do so for the rest of the year.
に Listen to a Japanese song once every two days. Again, because I actually enjoy music and searching for new artists, I have been keeping up with this goal as well.
さん Go to a せんせい office hour, at least once every other week, for at least 30 minutes in order to keep track of my progress and figure out any other places that I might need to work on. Although I did not go to office hours enough during the first half of this semester, I believe that I can accomplish this if I prioritize enough.
ご The original goal to find someone to converse with makes less sense since I really do not have enough vocabulary to effectively hone my skills. Instead, I will just focus on going to office hours.
ろくGo to a language table once every 3 weeks for at least 30 minutes! My schedule STILL clashes awfully with the Japanese language table, but maybe if I try to keep ahead of my work, I will be able to find time to do this.
Upon retrospect, the year went by relatively well so far. I finished the whole series of Deathnote, which definitely helped me better grasp intonation and pronunciation of the Japanese language. One thing that I felt was especially useful was that I would move towards speaking Japanese to teachers and fellow JPN 101 classmates whenever it was possible for me to do so. In this way, I feel one of my greatest achievements thus far was in confidence in speaking the language. 柴田先生 suggested that I could try speaking to native Japanese speakers among my friends, and if I manage to do that by the end of this semester, I feel like my confidence levels will have progressed very well.
