- Share your growth or any progress regarding language learning (Personal speaking skills? communication? Intercultural interaction on the blog? Confidence?), mindset building, project planning, our learning community, or anything you would like to share in this course with everyone. We will give you a shout! (at least 300 words
Looking back on my first learning journal, I mentioned wanting to speak mandarin more fluidly and less choppy and robotic as my native speaking friends have mentioned to me. I can confidently say that I feel an improvement in the flow of my speaking as laoshi has really helped us work on this aspect of our Chinese progress. Especially when doing the self tone recording videos, focusing on sounding less like I'm reading off the script has helped me sound more similar to a native speaker as i know when to take breaks and pause my speaking. In addition, I found that listening to the audio beforehand when filming the self tone videos were also a major reason why i see an improvement as it has really helped me with the pacing and timing of the stories. Moreover, another goal that i mentioned was being able to improve my chinese character reading skills. Although this is still one of my biggest struggles in Chinese, I am still surprised of how many new characters I can remember. I feel that having new vocabularly every 2 weeks instead of every week. Having new vocab every week in 200 level chinese was a big struggle for me often because it was hard to manage all the new information and the new information honestly felt really overwhelming. However, for this term, having new vocab biweekly has really allowed me to take my time to use and practise my quizlets and remember what I've learnt and cement the new vocabulary.
In regards to my communication skills, I feel that i can convey much more than I realize now with the new vocab we learned this term and it always make me feel great when i'm able to better articulate how i feel to native speakers.
2. Can you share a meaningful or joyful experience with us? :)
A really memorable experience I have from chin 331 is enjoying the delicious mooncakes that laoshi provided us on chinese mooncake festival day!
3. Your next goal for learning? (it can be about Mandarin or other things in your life)
My next goal in learning is learning to manage my schedule better, this applies to all my courses at ubc and will be especially helpful when learning much more chinese in the future. My chinese goal i will continue to work on is getting better and faster at reading chinese!
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