Final Reflection

So here are the goals I had at the beginning of the semester:

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

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!

I feel that I made some solid steps towards these goals, although in reflection they were possibly a little ambitious. I think I did improve at understanding and reproducing fast Japanese, and I did a lot of anime shadowing and challenging PE assignments to help accomplish this. In therms of tonal work, that's something that plagued me throughout the semester. All in all, I found it very difficult. I made a lot of progress, and reasonably regularly went to office hours to improve. There's still a lot of work to do in that area! After all, there is always room for improvement!

クリスマスプレゼント

クリスマスはとてもよかったですよ。かぞくとあいました。そして、いっしょにおしいたべものたべました。クリスマスにたくさんものもらいました！くつしたをふたつとほんをさんさつもらいました。いちばん おもしろいプレゼントはボルトミタでした。（せんこうはでんきこうがくですよ）ちょとへんですが、わたしはそのプレゼントがすきです。