Our first pronunciation cycle is over and I now realize that it is a little more difficult than I initially thought to stay on track with my goals. I did try shadowing Japanese anime and Japanese songs to improve my pronunciation. But most of time I could only get a single word or phrase. I also cheated sometimes by looking up the lyrics to songs to see what they were exactly saying(although to be honest sometimes I do this for songs in English and Spanish, I'm just not very good at making out what people say when singing). I attempted to shadow the third dialogue on blackboard, but there were some words that I could not make out and therefore struggled to reproduce in my recording(in my next cycle I plan to include this recording along with another).
As for my oral midterm, I honestly thought it was fun. I also thought it was difficult, especially trying to return to the dialogue that we had created. There a lot of things that I want to improve on my next oral exam. I want to improve on my intonation and pitch, which is something that I did not work on much while I was practicing. I also want to feel comfortable using the grammar thus far so that I can use it fluidly in conversations. I think みやぎさん and I did a good job making the dialogue as natural a conversation that we could possibly make. For instance, we incorporated what we do at home and often we do things.
That's it for now! Have an amazing break!
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