Post by Jembru on May 16, 2016 0:18:08 GMT
After the disaster of my plan to focus on conversation practice, I've decided to try a new approach. I've become pretty lazy with my audio journals lately, so to get back into the habit I've decided to make it into a bit of a challenge.
So for the next 7 days I will pick a time and set an alarm on my phone. When the alarm sounds I will stop what I'm doing, grab my phone, and make a one minute audio journal! If I want to continue I can, but I have to stop the recording at 1 minute and continue on a new recording. It can be about anything, but I thought simply talking about what I'm doing at the time would be a good way to practice talking about my daily life and the world around me.
I just made my first and attempted to describe my plan. When I could see the timer ticking away, I started really pushing myself to speak quickly to get it all said by the time the clock reached a minuite. It was pretty cool practice actually.
So, anyone want to join me in giving this a whirl? The more daring among you might want to do several a day. For those who are used to speaking, it's a good way to teach you to think faster and reduce your pauses. For those new to speaking a minute is plenty time to practice saying what you were just doing in a few sentences. You could describe the room you're in, the weather.. anything! If you need a word but either don't know it or don't remember it, just say it in English to keep your Japanese flowing. You can play it back afterwards and look those words up. If you needed them once, then they're words relevant to you personally, so will likely come up again. Such words are really worth adding to to your vocab learning method of choice.
Finally, if you get stuck at all trying to describe something, as I frequently did when I first started video journaling, you can always try our How Do You Say That thread and we'll try to help you out. If you can't say it, chances are that others can't or couldn't at some point, so asking benefits us all!
So for the next 7 days I will pick a time and set an alarm on my phone. When the alarm sounds I will stop what I'm doing, grab my phone, and make a one minute audio journal! If I want to continue I can, but I have to stop the recording at 1 minute and continue on a new recording. It can be about anything, but I thought simply talking about what I'm doing at the time would be a good way to practice talking about my daily life and the world around me.
I just made my first and attempted to describe my plan. When I could see the timer ticking away, I started really pushing myself to speak quickly to get it all said by the time the clock reached a minuite. It was pretty cool practice actually.
So, anyone want to join me in giving this a whirl? The more daring among you might want to do several a day. For those who are used to speaking, it's a good way to teach you to think faster and reduce your pauses. For those new to speaking a minute is plenty time to practice saying what you were just doing in a few sentences. You could describe the room you're in, the weather.. anything! If you need a word but either don't know it or don't remember it, just say it in English to keep your Japanese flowing. You can play it back afterwards and look those words up. If you needed them once, then they're words relevant to you personally, so will likely come up again. Such words are really worth adding to to your vocab learning method of choice.
Finally, if you get stuck at all trying to describe something, as I frequently did when I first started video journaling, you can always try our How Do You Say That thread and we'll try to help you out. If you can't say it, chances are that others can't or couldn't at some point, so asking benefits us all!
