6/29/11

I Will redo this if it is unclear, just message me^^









My my, has today been a very interesting day. We've gone over our hiragana/katakana, and I might say that I've finally memorized all of them!! Also, we've had our test, I feel a bit stupid because one of the Ru verbs I got wrong, I had gotten it right the first time, but I second guessed myself and I think I've rewritten it wrong...Neru, but I knew at first that it was ねます、ねません、ねました、ねませんでした。But everything else I am confident that I didn't fail completely! I am getting my sentences better with the particles and such. Today I've noticed how hard it is now becoming to speak in English...My mouth doesn't want to form R and C words, or F words either. I end up rolling my tongue and it sounds wrong to me, like I'm foreign....I'm taking it as a sign that my muscles are now adapting to speaking Japanese.

As for the Voki, I am uploading that soon, despite my frustration with myself mostly on this, and having a terrible time finding WiFi in these Airports, I think that Voki is a very good way in teaching us. There is a specific amount of time you only have to record, so you have to move your mouth fast as well as pronounce everything properly. After this I am going to be looking in a mirror, as Yuki Sensei has said, talking and looking in the mirror, no matter how weird it may look to others, it'll help. Another good thing about Voki is just how fun it is, it isn't something that I am used to, nor is Audacity, which I failed to use and now am using my phone to record. I feel bad that I've taken so long in posting this blog, but my perfectionism is showing as I have recorded over 20 times, I Really want this to be perfect. I haven't looked into the other features yet, but mostly the making us speak clearly and at a faster pace makes it better. It trains our mouths and brains to think and speak faster than what we are used to. Thankfully I've found out that I do have the ability to speak properly, but I need more practice, which is why I am going to continue to record until I get it right! It will be Very noisy background. I will most likely have to do it again, but to get it in on time I will have to make due, construction is happening in the airport where I happen to be able to have my service and power the computer. This assignment might be one of the most brilliant, at least in making me realize my mistakes right away, even when reading it in front of me when I say something wrong I know it is gramarly incorrect. Finally after 5 hours of hard practicing I had finished it!!! Yay!! It might have had to do with me refusing to go to the bathroom or take a drink, but still!! Yay!! Though some guy is talking in the background, I will redo it if it is unclear. I now feel refreshed and very accomplished, I set out to finish and no matter what I continued, even if I got a little ster crazy at the end, lol. What I like most with this voki is most likely a personal thing, but I think what is best is how it made me do it over and over and over again. No matter how mad I got, I wished to finish it, and in doing so, I kept at it and I think I can speak faster now!

I've finally gotten a post from a student in Japan! Megumi Yonemoto-san was very polite and had said that she understood my Japanese which is good! She's wonderful at English, better than me I bet.

Now I shall go to my hotel, I refused to leave until I finished, I won't be getting any sleep today, but I'll have all night tonight! I shall be watching over to see what we have for homework きょう！じゃまったね！