PE Goals!! Yaaaaayyyy :D :D :D

OMG. Hi guys. Okay. Since listening to anime and understanding it is the most important accomplishment in life, listening is obviously the number one goal. Also, since speaking Japanese, esp. when eating sushi, would be just so cool, that'll be number two.

Week 1 Goals:

1. Distinguish long vowels better
2. Distinguish little つ even when せんせい is not deliberately exaggerating it for us.
3. Practice speaking in rhythmic moras, instead of in random long/short syllables like in English.

Activities:

1. Watch at least 10 minutes of anime every day! Since I watch Naruto, Fairy Tail, and One Piece, all of which are updated weekly, this won't be a problem. I'll even rewatch every episode!
2. Shadow some anime segments and discuss particularly bad ones with Shibata-sensee.
3. Read hiragana 10 minutes a day from the textbook or the song Sato-sensee gave us until (eventually) it's like reading English.

はじめまして

はじめまして、みんなさん！　リウです。　わたしは　だいがく　いちねんせい　です。 わたしは　おすしが　だいすきです。どうぞよろしく。

HI EVERYBODYYYY

こんにちは！！

Konnichiwa everybody!

I'm Yunfei, or Liu-san, a freshman this year.
I live in Whitman! The best. So ha. Yeah. Go whales.

I'm studying Japanese because I pretty much grew up on Japanese anime.
Yep, that's right. While you were watching Spongebob, I was watching Dragon Ball Z LOL.
Then, in high school, I discovered the art of sushi.
At that moment, I pretty much decided I was going to learn Japanese, become fluent in it, and then go to Japan.

How cool would it be to watch anime without subtitles? Or draw my own manga? Visit Tokugawa Ieyasu's castle? Awesome! It's like the fantasy land of video games is just about to come true!

Anyway, I really like the Japanese program here. It's definitely more engaging than other foreign language experiences I've had so far. I especially like how our sensees are so energetic and how our classes are so small. It's going to be wonderful!

I do find learning so many Hiragana so quickly to be a bit of a challenge, but it's going to be a rewarding challenge! I am so ready to take advantage of the fast pace here and learn like I've never learned before. Yaaay :D