My name is Michelle and I am committing to learn colloquial Japanese in the coming months. (The site is named after my cat, Georgie, who is super cute, following the trend of my other blogs)
I have a few goals specifically to help me with my quest, per Fluent In 3 Months' the Language Hacking Guide!
1) By 5Apr2012, I will watch Studio Ghibli movies (thinking specifically Ponyo and Totoro, maybe Spirited Away) and understand at least half of it. Additionally, I would like to be able to talk about it in depth. This requires listening and speaking skills. I will also practice reading skills.
2) By 5June2012, I would like to be able to play Ni no Kuni (Japanese release Xmas present from my mom) and understand at least half of it to get the jist of what is going on without a dictionary. I would also like to be able to discuss this game. This will require a lot of reading skills, as well as listening and speaking.
3) By 5July2012, I would like to be able to comfortably get around using Japanese and have conversations with native Japanese people. This goal will be most helpful if I receive the grant I applied for to work there over the summer! This will require a lot of listening and speaking skills, and some minimal reading skills, which hopefully will be pretty well set from Goal 2.
I have been trying to formulate different groups of words I will need to pursue my first goal. I am not going to focus too much on grammar at all, as I sort of have an idea of how basic sentences go. One problem may be conjugating verbs but I am ignoring that right now in order to attain more understanding and breadth over depth. Additionally, I am going to try to translate these posts into Japanese but obviously this will be very limited at first, and I am thinking of going back and editing them as I become more fluent.
Stay posted and wish me luck!
ミッシェルです。私は日本語のがくさいです。なまえの私のねこはギオルギです。ギおるギはとてもかわいいです。
１）このねんの四月の五に、ステジオギブリのえいがはみますとわかります。
２）このねんの六月の五に、二の国はわかります。
３）このねんの七月の五に、人の日本語はわかります。
がんばりたい！
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