One of my first experiences with にほんご was in music. See if you can catch it in this song (one of my all time favorites!). Definitely worth a watch if you haven't heard it before.

PE Goals!

Over the course of the year, I'll be practicing actually speaking にほんご a lot! Some things I would like to improve:

1) I'd like to not only understand fast natural speech (as mush as possible anyways!) but also reproduce it myself.

Bakamonogatari つばたキャット Tongue twister!

2) I'd really like to get my tone patterns down! Its one thing to memorize the phonetics of certain words, but  getting the tonal and rhythm patterns (mora) correct is also really important!

To accomplish this, I have a number of activities in mind:

1) Watch anime! To be fair, I would do this anyways, but now I'd like to pay special attention to not only the English translations, but how the voice actor actually pronounce works. I'll try and focus on words I know, as well as watch some anime (children's anime/ slice of life) that use less complicated or more common language in order to understand more. I'll try and watch around an hour minimum each week.

2) Work on the Tongue twisters in the PE sound files and choose fast complicated examples for shadowing! By challenging myself with each pronunciation exercise, I hope to become more comfortable with fast paced natural speech.

3) Go to office hours once every two weeks, or when I have pressing questions / need help.

ぐでたま！

Everyone should be aware of this beautiful creation.

The theme song speaks to me.