Goal Statement: 1. Fluidity of reading: Currently, I have difficulty translating what I see into speech even though I recognize all of the individual hiragana. By using games like KanaMind and WaniKani for twenty to thirty minutes a day, I will improve my recognition of kana and kanji. 2. Natural speech recognition and reproduction: As a non-native speaker, it is hard for me to parse a series of syllables at conversational speed and recognize them as discrete words. I will shadow a scene from an anime once a week and attend a Japanese language table once every two weeks for conversational practice with other learners. 3. Intonation: Some of the subtleties of intonation are lost on me. I will converse with native speakers and advanced learners and incorporate their corrections whenever possible.
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こんにちは! Brown です. I am excited to learn Japanese so that I can directly interact with one of the great cultures of the world. That includes consuming media like anime and video games and reading original novels by the likes of Haruki Murakami, but also (hopefully) traveling abroad to experience a new sense of place through interactions with a thoroughly modernized but foreign people. I am also taking East Asian Humanities this semester to build a foundation for understanding Japanese philosophy and traditions. I want to use my Japanese to further that understanding. After the first couple days of class, I am primarily worried about the writing system. I'm not quite sure how to go about studying hiragana and katakana, let alone kanji. It is a daunting task to grasp three scripts and integrate them all into the same sentence. I have heard repeatedly that Japanese grammar is starkly different from that of English, making it especially hard to translate and learn as a native English s...