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| leisaowns Newbie United States Joined 4837 days ago 12 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese | Message 9 of 13 15 January 2012 at 4:34am | IP Logged | |||||
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Yikes, I completely forgot about my log for these past few weeks.
But I have been studying as much as my time permits! I've determined that I have plenty of study time during my very slow and boring Spanish class at school, and possibly in the middle of the week after school. I've made it through 6 lessons in my Nihongo So-Matome grammar book, and feel more or less comfortable recognizing the grammar points addressed. But this week I'm going to go through the lessons again to try to commit them to memory so I can utilize the information. I've also been watching videos on basic algebra in Japanese, and find them quite interesting. I also tried multiple times this week to make a video in Japanese to put on youtube to practice my speaking, but I have such long pauses between sentences because I don't know what to say. I don't want to write up a script because that would defeat the purpose of speaking and thinking in real time, but I may resort to that at first just until I get used to it. I'm not sure yet, though... In Arabic, I'm slowly progressing. I've been introduced to the broken plurals, and I must say, I'm not liking them so far. But I'll get used to them the more I use and see them, so I think I'll be alright in the long run. Goals for this week: Go through the first 6 lessons of my Japanese grammar book again Read through two stories in Reading Japanese with a Smile Learn 5 new words of Arabic each day 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6622 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 10 of 13 15 January 2012 at 9:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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Rather than writing a script, you could choose a topic and think a bit about what you want to say. Maybe even make a card with a list of keywords to remind you what you want to cover. I did the same thing in Norwegian the very first time I tried speaking. (on a cassette tape for myself, not on Youtube) I just decided what I wanted to talk about, but I didn't write anything down. Edited by Brun Ugle on 15 January 2012 at 7:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6087 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 11 of 13 15 January 2012 at 7:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have REading Japanese With a Smile too. The kanji/sentence structure is challenging, but the cultural notes are really good!
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| leisaowns Newbie United States Joined 4837 days ago 12 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese | Message 12 of 13 15 January 2012 at 7:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ohh, I like that idea. I'll try it out! Thanks for sharing!
Definitely. I really like it so far, especially the wide variety of vocabulary. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5984 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 13 of 13 15 January 2012 at 8:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I would say that writing a script and reading from it will probably not help you to speak more fluently. In fact I find that writing doesn't really help my speaking at all. If I want to work from a set text I find it far better practice to shadow or listen and repeat some kind of recorded audio passage. Brun Ugle's suggestions also sound good.
Actually, I think you're pretty brave even attempting a YouTube video. It took me a long time to get the courage to unleash my spoken Japanese on anybody, and even now I only have one-to-one conversations. I'm still not prepared to unleash it on the whole internet! But if you are making videos/recordings I bet it will be a great record for you to look back on as you improve. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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