===Speaking 2月9日
- Conv w/ Teacher:
ASAO online, Aoyama sensei: minna no Nihongo Ch18 plus
All the scenarios based on the grammar, plus
Talking about the weekend.
I have also been speaking every day not but not posting namely:
- Spoken diary about my day
- Practicing new grammar sentences (getting used to saying out loud, rather than writing them)
- Shadowing content (I find this very tiring so can’t do for too long)
- Spending as much time as I can (not much) on VR chat (informal chatter)
Has anyone used Tandem app? I signed up but been stuck in the approval process for a few weeks now
Some said Tandem app is like dating app. But I personally never used it. 
===Speaking 2月10,11日
- Conv w/ Teacher:
ASAO online, Aoyama sensei: minna no Nihongo Ch18 again, to complete it. - Reading aloud: examples from bunprosrs reviews
===Speaking 2月12,13日
- Conv w/ Teacher:
ASAO online, Aoyama sensei: minna no Nihongo Ch19
Good conversation about dialects in Japan and Indonesia
About the coming fasting month. - Reading aloud: examples from bunprosrs reviews
plus
All the scenarios based on the grammar, plus
Talking about plan this coming weekend, using ~たり grammar points
Been too busy. Sorry.
===Speaking 2月13-17日
- Conv w/ Teacher:
ASAO online, Aoyama sensei: minna no Nihongo, continuing Ch19
Good conversation about coming fasting month agaim and my India biz trip. - Shadowing
https://youtu.be/zLeUisVagh4?si=hN9MaFq2Iwr0UhB3
Sample sentences from Azumanga Daioh marathon. I would sound like a girl, of course, but I don’t care haha
Sigh. It had to come some day. I love putting myself through pain 
Why am I doing this challenge?
I have a placement test looming at the end of March, so I need to practice my output more, especially speaking, as I haven’t done that much since I graduated from high school and stopped taking Japanese classes, and my test will mostly be conversational skills. I might still do a little writing on the side tho 
So, to hold myself accountable, I’ll be trying my best and recording the days I do some form of speaking, whether it be shadowing, reading out loud, or, y’know, actually talking to natives 
Plans
- Do at least 5 minutes a day. Maybe preferably 10?
- Start with shadowing and reading out loud. By March 9th, do talks with natives, at least twice a week
Don’t explode from embarassment
I’m stealing the calendar format I use from the listen every day challenge. I don’t really know what channels to stick with, so I’m just typing “Japanese shadowing practice” and picking what I think sounds nice 
Special days are marked with a 
to indicate that I spoke with natives and or for a long period!
Winter? Speak Every Day Challenge
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Learn Japanese with Tanaka san |
First day night! Started simple with a Learn Japanese with Tanaka san video!
Part of the video was listening and diction, so I’ll just count half of it as speaking. Idk if I’ll “perfectly” record my time spent speaking like how I do with my listening, but oh well
About 5 mins of speaking | Total so far: 5 mins
Can’t do three replies in a row, oops!
End of February
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かなまとぺ Kanamatope |
Waaah! This video was super fast lol. I couldn’t really keep up with the convo pace like how I did with Tanaka-san, so I’ll need to make sure I find ones with pauses and slower dialogue.
About 6 mins of speaking | Total so far: 11 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 3 - Section 1 |
Late night post like usual. The video is short, but I spent a lot of time going over each sentence and doing their 5 step shadowing plan, so it took me about 10 minutes. I’ll make sure to properly time myself from now on.
https://youtu.be/eGfgteo7gMU?list=PLi03R8dvV3GyU6Ts_b3C99W5LCojuJ7xL
About 10 mins of speaking | Total so far: 21 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 2 - Section 1 |
Jumped around a little bit and I think I’ll start from level 2. They still talk super fast though 
Also I timed myself and MAN. I spend a lot of time repeating the examples apparently.
About 15 mins of speaking | Total so far: 36 mins
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Did some reading out loud with @Shannon-8 today! I don’t know how long exactly was spent reading each sentence, so I’ll just put 10 mins since we went for about an hour.
About 10 mins of speaking | Total so far: 46 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course Shadowing Beginner | Level 2 - Section 2 |
Early post today! Just another 15 mins.
https://youtu.be/BlnUGRjXYJc?list=PLi03R8dvV3GyU6Ts_b3C99W5LCojuJ7xL
About 15 mins of speaking | Total so far: 1 hr 1 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course Shadowing Beginner | Level 2 - Section 3 |
https://youtu.be/26wqNvN_Zfw
About 13 mins of speaking | Total so far: 1 hr 14 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course Shadowing Beginner | Level 2 - Section 4 |
Another video
About 14 mins of speaking | Total so far: 1 hr 28 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course Shadowing Beginner | Level 2 - Section 5 |
Gonna need to get over my shyness soon and start using HelloTalk or go to my campus sessions 
About 14 mins of speaking | Total so far: 1 hr 42 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course Shadowing Beginner | Level 2 - Section 6 |
Done for today.
About 16 mins of speaking | Total so far: 1 hr 58 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 2 - Section 7 |
Practice with Shannon tomorrow!
https://youtu.be/DjM_RT2QsUU?list=PLi03R8dvV3GyU6Ts_b3C99W5LCojuJ7xL
About 13 mins of speaking | Total so far: 2 hr 11 mins
1st Week of March
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Practiced the Quartet Ch. 7 1-3 model conversation with Shannon today! I was supposed to do practice chats with people at my college tomorrow, but I realize I have an interview at that time…
About 20 mins of speaking | Total so far: 2 hr 31 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 2 - Section 8 |
Just getting by…
About 12 mins of speaking | Total so far: 2 hr 43 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 2 - Section 9 |
I might have enough time for HelloTalk on Thursday morning. My days are getting busier
About 13 mins of speaking | Total so far: 2 hr 56 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 3 - Section 2 |
Got HelloTalk set back up, so tomorrow is the day. Either app or speaking session at school (or both!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REyDCHeIG4Y&list=PLi03R8dvV3GyU6Ts_b3C99W5LCojuJ7xL&index=20
About 15 mins of speaking | Total so far: 3 hr 11 mins
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I FINALLY DID THE THING!!! Had a technically 30 min convo with two people on HelloTalk, but obviously I wasn’t talking the entire time. So I’ll just say like 20 mins.
Edit: I also did a talk with people at school! So I’ll add another 15 mins! I now have a better idea of what to work on, and I think I’ll practice talking to myself and doing the Japanesepod101 lessons. I’ll mark today as special for speaking with natives and doing more than 30 mins.
About 35 mins of speaking | Total so far: 3 hr 46 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 3 - Section 3 |
Ughhh… I was busy with schoolwork today and I couldn’t get to my practice until super late today. Took me a little longer than usual.
https://youtu.be/YyFU9U4t4zk?list=PLi03R8dvV3GyU6Ts_b3C99W5LCojuJ7xL
About 18 mins of speaking | Total so far: 4 hr 4 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 3 - Section 4 |
Once again, the JSL Shadowing videos are taking more time to do. Speaking with Shannon tomorrow.
https://youtu.be/uB2Z8o2qiF4?list=PLi03R8dvV3GyU6Ts_b3C99W5LCojuJ7xL
About 20 mins of speaking | Total so far: 4 hr 24 mins
2nd Week of March
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Forgot to post it earlier, but I did speaking with Shannon today!
About 20 mins of speaking | Total so far: 4 hr 44 mins
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I went to my campus language chat again today, but a lot of people spoke in English. I still got some JP practice though, and one person thought I was conversational! I definitely am not at my HS speaking level yet though lol
About 20 mins of speaking | Total so far: 5 hr 4 mins
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I’m a little too tired for it tonight, so I didn’t do a shadowing video, but I made sure to read my Anki flashcard sentences out loud while reviewing. So I’ll count that instead.
About 15 mins of speaking | Total so far: 5 hr 19 mins
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I did some more of reading my Anki cards out loud, I feel bad about not doing more. (Must… keep… going…)
I want to focus on grammar based sentence shadowing, cause I keep mixing up my conjugations when I speak and I need to refresh the grammar that I’ve learned from Genki and Quartet 1.
About 15 mins of speaking | Total so far: 5 hr 34 mins
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Unfortunately speaking practice was cancelled at school today, and I was both busy and a procrastinator today. So I just did another shadowing video and reading Anki cards out loud… Hopefully I’ll be better tomorrow.
About 25 mins of speaking | Total so far: 5 hr 59 mins
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So I tried out this instantaneous composition method that was mentioned on the WK forum from a few years back, and did some exercises on this Wasabi site. I just wanted to get some grammar focused practice in.
About 22 mins of speaking | Total so far: 6 hr 21 mins
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Did some more Wasabi exercises, might look at the old Genki prompts to get more speaking practice of older grammar points. Practice with Shannon tomorrow.
About 17 mins of speaking | Total so far: 6 hr 38 mins
3rd Week of March
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Just had speaking practice with Shannon! We spend a lot of time making realizations that would’ve been impossible to notice on our own
About 35 mins of speaking | Total so far: 7 hr 13 mins
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I totally forgot I signed up for this online speaking session exchange event thing with my school, so that was a surprise for myself today. It was nice, in both Eng and JP because we had some exchange students it seems.
About 40 mins of speaking | Total so far: 7 hr 53 mins
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I refuse to lose my streak even if I am on Spring Break! I should be doing better tbh… Did speaking by reading Anki sentence cards out loud.
About 10 mins of speaking | Total so far: 8 hr 3 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 3 - Section 6 |
Spring break and my horrendous sleep schedule…
Finally did another JSL shadowing video
About 18 mins of speaking | Total so far: 8 hr 21 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 3 - Section 7 |
Did another JSL shadowing, I really need to pick HelloTalk back up…
About 17 mins of speaking | Total so far: 8 hr 38 mins
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RIP to my streak. I just have gotten busy with getting homework done before break ends… Did Anki card reading today.
About 10 mins of speaking | Total so far: 8 hr 48 mins
4th Week of March
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Just finished practice with @/Shannon-8!
About 30 mins of speaking | Total so far: 9 hr 18 mins
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Speaking session got cancelled at school, so I had to jump on HelloTalk for a short convo to get some interaction. Also read Anki cards today.
About 20 mins of speaking | Total so far: 9 hr 38 mins
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Forgive my laziness, just more Anki cards…
About 10 mins of speaking | Total so far: 9 hr 48 mins
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I did a little bit of HelloTalk, but it was awkward and i didn’t get to talk much in the chatrooms today… I also did Anki cards
About 20 mins of speaking | Total so far: 10 hr 8 mins
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 3 - Section 8 |
https://youtu.be/YO8HjOiFXeg?list=PLi03R8dvV3GyU6Ts_b3C99W5LCojuJ7xL
Some JSL shadowing and Anki today.
About 16 mins of speaking | Total so far: 10 hr 24 mins
Final March Days
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JSL Japanese Language Course: Shadowing Beginner | Level 4 - Section 1 |
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The end is nigh! And I didn’t practice very much these past few days because I was busy…
The least I can do is some JSL shadowing and maybe a HelloTalk tomorrow before my test
About 13 mins of speaking | Total so far: 10 hr 37 mins
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Well, I had my test today, and I passed with flying colors! I’m a little surprised I did so well considering how I didn’t get a lot of speaking practice with real people, but shadowing and self-narration really works as a supplement!
So thank you past me, for realizing that you had to prepare for this properly. Yes, you did have an impromptu writing section, but the world didn’t blow up because you forgot a few kanji.
I still plan to keep up with output practice in preparation for my future JP classes and potential study abroad, so I will try to stick with this challenge!
About 30 mins of speaking | Total so far: 11 hr 7 mins
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Wanted to finish the month off right!
https://youtu.be/nJBrRXrG7OA?list=PLi03R8dvV3GyU6Ts_b3C99W5LCojuJ7xL
About 12 mins of speaking | Total so far: 11 hr 19 mins
April
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I’m finally back! I did speaking with Shannon today
About 20 mins of speaking | Total so far: 11 hr 39 mins
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Honestly I probably won’t be able to do speaking consistently until I finish my semester in May… Did speaking with Shannon today.
About 20 mins of speaking | Total so far: 11 hr 59 mins