I might be biting off more than I can chew, but I’m going to try to do all three of these ‘every day’ challenges (Listen, Read, and Speak/Write), at least to start the year. This Speak/Write one will definitely be the hardest…
I’m going to try to write a journal this year, which I’ve never done before, and make sure to include at least a few sentences each in Japanese and in Spanish (which I’m also learning). I probably won’t be sharing it here, but I think I’ll need at least some accountability in order to maintain a daily habit. And I wrote my first entry today, so I can at least check off one day!
omg? I didn’t know I could read all the ADoBJG entries online welp
(I’ve been procrastinating joining this challenge, but I’m already doing quite a lot, so maybe I’ll hop on in February It’s really nice to get some reading practice from all the entries here though!)
My cat is big and my dog is small. The cat is 10 years old and the dog is 9.
Edit: I’m not sure if this is the correct way to string statements together. I learned と as “and” but in the examples they were using it to list nouns, so I don’t know if it could be used here.
Most of my days are spent studying and cooking… I’m afraid my daily entries here might start looking like a food blog ! Now I’m pretty sure I’ve made a few mistakes in these sentences - still feeling pretty rusty after dropping grammar for the past few months. excited to get back into it though !
I keep not sleeping well recently, kinda sucks, but I did manage another half hour or so of shadowing. I think I’m just lucky on the material but it felt kinda easy so hopefully this is a good sign.
Was hugely distractable but kept writing, a little ways into talking about proceeding to the next VN I read after Emio.
I probably need to find some shorter/simpler topics I can focus more on the language I can use rather than getting into complex thoughts which involve grammar I’m not good at recalling.
Did the shadowing, same as ever. It feels fine but I can tell when if I kinda try to just talk to myself I’m still very slow and awkward. It’s both hard to get thoughts to come in proper format quickly enough and also I have a weird mental block where speaking Japanese out loud just feels weird and wrong, haha. Hopefully doing this stuff fixes that sometime. I wanna try proper voice calls with friends again sometime but I think it’s a little too early.
I continued my writing, dipping into talking about the last of the Famicom Detective Club games. I’m feeling really tired and struggling to get words out so I’m not too happy about it this time, but I did force some Japanese out anyway