This is my first time doing a challenge in the Wanikani community, along with the Reading and Listening Winter 2025 challenges I signed up for yesterday as well, so I hope this goes well 
My Reasons for Doing This
I took Jap for 5 years in college, (age 14-18) and I just finished graduating, and I don’t want my output ability to fade as I leave my Japanese school hours into the dust. My career involves no Japanese and my goal is to live there, which would be very difficult if I couldn’t even speak the language, let alone know zero scientific terms in Japanese for my career.
Plan
I have 3 main things I’d like to practice everyday.
- Speak in the shower to myself
- Tell a story into a camera for 5 minutes and watch back/write down words and/or sentences I don’t know and repeat this process a few times with the same story. (Inspiration came from Language Lords).
- Shadowing a Japanese Parent and hopefully gain a quite unique way to speak in Japanese that I can follow and will maybe give me pronunciation tips.
Sadly I am way too socially awkward to have genuine conversations with people as I’m too nervous to embarrass myself (which yes, I know, is a part of the process) but am trying to overcome this fear and I hope by the end of this challenge my confidence would have risen and I can go into discord calls or similar to have genuine conversations with people.
Also I would very much like to start practicing pitch accent asap, but I would like to gain more of a foundation for output before I sign up for Dogen’s Patreon or similar as I am EXTREMELY broke and would like to spend my money well.
Writing Kanji has never been a goal of mine as I believe it’s not the most useful skill for Japanese (Sorry to anyone who thinks otherwise) so I likely won’t be doing writing in general as a daily practice, but may write a story or two if I have some free time during these upcoming months.
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Thanks in advance for any words of encouragement or advice!! I’m a complete beginner when it comes to this so I may mess up some things on the way but I’ll do my best to (hopefully) complete this challenge. Will start on the 13th of Jan as I was on holiday for the last 3 weeks.