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せんしゅうまつ土曜日にくじに朝ご飯おたべばした。
じゅうじはんにほんおよみました。

そしでえいがをみました。どんなえいがをみましたか？　YouTubeのえいがをみました！

さんじにべんきょうしました。　こんしゅうきんよびにテストがあります。
どんなテストがありますか？　日本語のテストがあります。　たいへんですね。

ごごくじにりょうへかえりました。
ごごじゅういちじにパチイでばんごはんを食べました。　チズをたべました。たいへんですね！　そしでびーるをのみまあした。　

Where Did I Get My Blog Title?

Yowayowacamera.com is one of my favorite sites to go see the creativity of a Japanese girl who loves to take pictures of her levitating.

This girl's name is Natsumi Hayashi. 
She lives in Tokyo with two cats. Her photographs are mainly levitating self-portraits (and cats not levitating).  yowayowa is a Japanese term meaning "weak" or "feeble."
Since I'm yowayowa, it's really heavy to carry SLR cameras around.

She introduces herself in Japanese as well:
よわよわカメラウーマン = 林ナツミです。
CANON EOS 5D Mark II (重い)で
本日の浮遊シリーズ(セルフポートレート)と
日々のできごとを記録しています。

「よわよわカメラウーマン日記」はリンクフリーです。

I like to think of her setting these pictures up and having someone or having a timer take the pictures. There is a certain degree of choreography that is deliberate for every levitation that looks so effortless.

Pronunciation Exercise Reflections

PE 1 Reflections
My goals for PE 1 were:

Be able to mimic the intonation of a male Japanese speaker.

Be able to speak with a rhythm that is fluid across sentences as opposed to individual mora units.

Be able to distinguish the aspirated and non-aspirated consonant sounds

Be able to distinguish the long and short vowels.

I feel like my rhythm for Japanese sentences have gotten better and my intonation has improved. Shibata sensei noted that I should be wary of properly hearing the differences between aspirated and non-aspirated sounds like "k" and "gg" because I speak Korean as well. With our vocabulary learned thus far, I have been able to distinguish these sounds. 

Since my goals were broader for PE1, I cannot definitively say that I have accomplished them albeit I have improved in all noted areas. I will try to make much more concrete goals for PE2 that are accomplishable.

PE 2 Goals
Shadow the beginning introduction of the Seven Samurai movie trailer.
Pronounce one Japanese tongue twister perfectly.
Make sure that my particles are not said separately from the object or verb that they are supporting.
Speak more fluidly across prepositional phrases and other units within one sentence (stop faltering mid-sentence).

My Actual PE Shadowing Exercise

This homework was the longest that I've ever spent on Japanese 101 homework thus far. Finding the right clip that was the right speed for me to repeat was incredibly hard.

I ended up with a trailer for one of my favorite movies, the Seven Samurai by Kurosawa.

Enjoy.

This is Genki Sudo

The band is amazing. I want to find 5 Asian friends and practice the slow walk move for Halloween.

This clip is entirely filmed in Seoul!

Shadowing Exercise

If you can do your Shadowing Exercise perfectly with this clip, I will give you 5 dollars.

Self-introduction

Self-introduction