New project: 60-days challenge on Japanese

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 1^st to November 27^th (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 30^th to arrive in Japan in November 1^st).

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!