Yesss join us! I really like Quartet so far actually. Now here’s hoping I can finally make some progress on those writing assignments with this challenge.
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I’ve been wanting to do one of these challenges and this is a perfect opportunity!!
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10月1日(火)
1st Day of the Autumn Speak/Write Every Day Challenge!
Thinking in Japanese Podcast
12 September 2024
あなたはなにかを継続することがとくいですか？毎日何かをすることは、あなたにとってとても役に立ちます。
My first attempt at shadowing. Was more difficult than I was expecting. I’m hoping that as I do this daily it’ll get easier. (The topic of the podcast seemed serendipitously apt)
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On a whim, I’m going to try this! I’m currently studying for N2, so I’m going to try and write example sentences using the grammar I’m studying for that, along with some regular diary entries to keep things fresh. For speaking I’ll practice narrating my own actions, and try be more talkative with my coworkers. I’ve really struggled with these skills in my studies so I’m excited to refine them!
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Happy first day of the challenge, everyone! 
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10月01日
Did my 10 minutes shadowing with ふしぎ駄菓子屋. I read a little bit about the method and they want you to speak along with the audio and match the speed, but to start with I just repeated sections after the audio. It’s hard to try and speak at a native speed! My mouth does not want to form the syllables at all.
Also wrote a couple lines for the ‘write every day’ part, not 10 minutes but not going to be too strict at first since I’m already feeling so much resistance to starting this habit and want to make it as easy as possible.
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10月2日(水)
Thinking in Japanese Podcast
7 August 2024
あなたは今やっていることに注目していますか？それとも、ほかのことを考えていますか？
My second go at shadowing - some parts went smoothly, sometimes I failed to accurately remember what had just been said and like @soggyboy said sometimes my mouth just didn’t want to make the shapes!
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Read aloud a few stories or sections, and compare with native recordings. I don’t know if there are assorted read-alouds, that are purposefully difficult to pronounce, like having a lot of some consonants or vowels.
Topic title doesn’t have emoji in the front 
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Yeah, it wasn’t showing up right when I was trying to add it on the work computer so I thought I’d add it later on my laptop…then I forgot.
I don’t know if I want to make it any more difficult 
I may try comparing with a recording later though.
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10月02日
Did my 10 mins of shadowing/repeating practice on my lunch break instead of forgetting until the end of the day when I was in bed. 
てもらう is apparently very hard for me to say.
Also wrote another tiny diary entry. Not sure if I’ll post all my diaries to langcorrect or not, because posting them is like a whole other commitment since you have to look over the corrections, and it adds a lot of time. Maybe in November I’ll scale up a bit and post the diaries too.
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10月3日(木)
Thinking in Japanese Podcast
刺激が私達を若くする
16 March 2024
Shadowing & still stumbling over some word combinations
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Reading this the other day, I realised I hadn’t actually read up about “shadowing” so just went and did it how I imagined it should be done. Turns out I wasn’t far off. But I’ve since read around a little & found the following article useful. I especially liked their recommendation to walk around while you’re doing it:
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Didn’t do my shadowing/speaking, but I did write a tiny diary entry because I thought it would be a shame to lose my streak so early. My brain managed to dredge up a slightly different grammar point from the これはペンです type stuff it was coming up with before, so I feel like that’s a win.
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Well so, I thought I would do this challenge with quick diary entries (like, even just 1 sentence), but I’m in trouble. “Listen every day” is easy enough on my commute, and “read every day” was/is my main goal, so when the heck do I actually have time to journal when I never even do that in English??
So yesterday I chose to do my “read every day” out loud to my parnter while he cooked! I thought that was great! So I gave myself a ☆ 
And today?
So this is cheesey, but I thought it was like some Youtube content while doing this I let my partner, at long last, teach me how to use the riding lawn mower 
As I was tromping around on 
speed, under the cover of the loud mower, I practiced some speach!
“This tractor is green”
“I am a farmer”
“AHHH there are so many stones!”
It was a fun, private way of speaking out loud
Maybe, probably, I said things wrong. But maybe this challenge for me will be more spoken and less written 
We shall see!
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10月4日(金)
Unlocking Convenience: Delivery Lockers in Japan #235
Sayuri Saying Everyday Podcast
Decided to shadow a different podcast today - maybe because it had a lot of new vocabulary for me ? - it was harder to shadow & the whole exercise took longer than I’d expected. I think I might have to choose something a little easier tomorrow
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Speak/Write Everyday! Jira2406
you guys got room for one more? 
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That’s awesome! And anything counts for this challenge. Exercise those output muscles! 
Of course!!
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Wrote my tiny diary again. Tomorrow I’ll make an effort to start the Quartet ch. 1 writing. And do shadowing since I haven’t done it today or yesterday.
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10月5日(土)
Had another go at shadowing - returned to the Thinking in Japanese Podcast:
Man learns 5 languages starting at 28 and can read books in them フランクリン自伝
17 May 2023
9 mins
I can’t say I’m finding this easy. Wondering if I should repeat the same episode for a few days?
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I started my Quartet writing assignment today and wrote 2 sentences. I was going to say something here about how that’s not very much, but then I thought, well if I write 2 sentences a day I’ll actually be done by the end of the week! So I’ll work on it tomorrow too.
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