I have a long story with the
Japanese language. Recently I finished college with a major in Japanese
Language and its Literature, which means that I have been studying this
language for more than 4 years. Also, this year I went to Japan for the first
time and there I was able to put into practice part of the knowledge I have
been gathering all those years. However since I was participating in a program whose
official language was English, I was not able to use Japanese as much as I
wanted to. Therefore I decided to go to Japan again this year to spend an
entire month there just practicing the language. This will happen from November
1st to November 27th (ok it is not an entire month, but
we almost hit there).
Even though I spent a huge amount of
time studying Japanese in the past 4 years, I still don’t feel confident about
my general knowledge in the language, mainly concerning to speaking. So in order
to break this lack of confidence and enjoy my trip to Japan at its best, I
decided to start a 60-days challenge on Japanese, beginning next Monday (August
31, 2015) and ending in October 29, precisely one day before my departure to
Japan (yes, it’s necessary to depart from Brazil on October 30th to arrive
in Japan in November 1st).
My past project which was focused on
learning French is working kind of bad, but it does not mean I want to stop it.
I am still trying to watch at least one video in French every day, even though
I keep forgetting to read Baudelaire’s poems in a daily basis. French and
English will still be present on my daily activities, but I will turn my
attention into Japanese for a while.
My goals are:
- Listening to Japanese at least one hour a day;
- Reading at least one chapter of a Manga in Japanese every day;
- Having a 30-minutes class on Italki every week;
- Keeping on studying my daily grammars for JLPT N2.
I am really excited about this
challenge, so I truly want to make real records about my progress here. I hope
I have the strong will to do this and complete a good challenge. I will try to
apply some of the techniques I have been using and researching about for the
last 4 years.
Let’s work on!
