あたらしい日本のCDがあります！

あたらしい日本のCDがあります！

ジェロのCDです！ジェロはあたらしいですけどふるいうたをうたいます。うたでにほんごをべんきょうするのがすきです。ふるいうたのほうがやさしいですからとてもゆくりです。

ジェロのごしゅっしんは ピッツバーグですよ！ぼくも ピッツバーグからいました！もしかしたら、わたしもゆうめいな シンガーになりますねー！

みなさん！どんなにほんごのおんがくがすきですか？

 

PE GOALS AND SELF REFLECTION

I feel that I have made considerable progress in the first 7 weeks of this course in terms of my pronunciation and listening abilities.   At first, I never really thought about the pitch of vocabulary words and just focused on learning the sounds themselves.  As I have become more comfortable with the sounds of the kana, I have become more able to distinguish and use the proper pitch patterns.  I had a goal to do lots of shadowing to practice, but I have not been able to keep up with that goal.   I will renew my efforts to shadow in the Speak Everywhere program more.  

I would also like to set two new goals.   I would like to take what I have learned about the pitch of individual words in Japanese, and start to apply that more naturally to longer sentences.   I also will focus on not placing too much of a verbal emphasis on my particles when I speak.   Whenever I hear recordings of myself I always think that it sounds very unnatural when I do that.