Reading Progress
Well I spent basically two days straight reading Grimgar, and finished 15-16. That was great, but I think a little too taxing lol. Almost missed a really important detail. Otoh I feel much more relieved about my progress now. There’s 8 volumes left now… which is 2x the number of weeks left in Week 16 - クラスで2番目に可愛い女の子と友だちになった | L27 - Light Novel Club … so I’ve started catching up with that
Lessons
I had my 2nd Kansai lesson with Na-sensei, and didn’t really feel so good about this one. I don’t feel like he really has a good grasp of my level - or I guess what to do for a student who is less beginner. And I was hoping he’d be able to figure out how to adjust more. I also feel like his communication style is a bit わかりにくい.
I’m thinking about whether I want to try to write him some feedback, or just move on. Leaning towards the latter. If I do want to try making it work I think I’d need to specifically do/ask for the following:
- More intonation correction
- More “how to say”, in conversation practice
- I bring in questions
- Maybe just eliminate the beginning “let’s do grammar” portion, and have it all be free talk?
I also think I need to think up new things to talk about, in general. Most of my conversation tends to be about fiction I’m reading or watching… and I’ve gotten decent at that. So I feel like it might be time to improve in some other area of conversation. Wrt grammar, I think I’ve been getting more of that on my own than I expected. So except for when I have specific questions, I think I’m better off just doing that on my own.
I have a first lesson with Ne-sensei next week… Hopefully that feels like a better fit
Tobira
Got up to to the grammar portion of ch 1 in Tobira. I didn’t answer the reading comprehension questions this time around, but did write in the sample conversations. Most of the grammar points are very familiar, but I think I will try writing out a sentence or two for the ones that are less automatic, tomorrow. Listened to some of the audio as well - that was cool… particularly since one samples uses うち for 家… like how would I have known that?
