So today 佐藤先生and I finally got a video upload to work, so soon I shall be posting my video introduction, but for now, I'm going to be writing about my pronunciation exercise goals.
I would like to improve my fluency and word pitches and also continue finding interesting scenes to shadow so that I can enrich my vocabulary. What I think would help is if I practiced speaking with context in mind, so that I don't just think of this assignment as recording a monologue. I plan to channel my inner actress if it's there somewhere.
This week's passage is from Bakemonogatari, an anime series that I actually have never seen before, but was introduced to me by my brother, who keeps sending me music from the show. The scene is of two people looking at the stars at night while one of them points to various constellations.
Here is the music from the scene if anyone is interested!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yatSmW4XBD4
こんばんは、
ReplyDeleteHi Ingrid, your blog looks great so far! It's really cool that you went to Taiwan this summer, and it's cool that you want to learn a little about how Japan/Japanese have influenced Taiwan/Taiwanese. I can't agree with you more that the food is amazing in Japan, as well!
Regarding your written introduction - it looks good, but I wish I could read the kanji! It looks like you already know a decent amount of Japanese, and knowing Chinese will definitely help!
By the way, in your video blog... Is that さとうーせんせい？
Keep up the great work,
ダグラス
イェンさん、おはよう！
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, you should definitely give Bakemonogatari a try. I couldn't understand all of the puns and pop culture references (and there are a lot of them), but it was still a very good show with great characters.
Anyway, nice job with the blog so far. I like the pictures. They make me hungry.
じゃあ、また！
ケニー・リン