6/15/11 part 2!

こんいちは！！Today in class we've gone over, typed, spoken and redone our greetings and despcriptions! It had taken up the whole class, but than again I am a bit bad at working PC's due to my having Mac. Though after having Yuki sensei go over all of my grammer and such I feel a bit better with everything. Though I still have troubles with telling when I am suppose to put wa(ha) or no in the sentence. With speaking I find it easier to read the Hiragana in Romaji, though I need to reconize my Hiragana quicker. Once I do that, I know my speaking will become better. Though I need to exercise and practice my tongue with speaking Japanese.

1) With photo story it was a big help with exercising all the methods of learning a new language. Using pictures to connect with our brain, as well as typing and speaking Japanese onto the slides. With speaking into the mic, it played back what you said as you were saying it, which helped me realize when I had made a mistake with my speaking and pernounciation. Enabling me to restart with just that section, instead of doing it all over again. I've also realized I do not sound at ALL Japanese, I should practice my accent after I've learned more with my pernounciation.

2) With speaking Japanese, I've realized how different it is than thinking it inside of your head. Forming the words with your mouth is far more difficult, and for me I need to speak a bit faster, I feel I am saying everything too slow and not fluid like. Although with that I must study more with proper grammer in order to speak properly. Like I've said in my reflection, I must learn to reconize the Hiragana faster in order to read/speak faster. I can tell it'll get harder as we go on, I only hope that by the end of this class it'll become easier, or semi easier.