パークのポートフォリオ

Park Sinchaisri's JPAN021 ePortfolio

Contact: swich at wharton.upenn.edu

はじめまして! 私の名前は「パーク・シンチャイシー」です。今、ペン大の大学院生で、四年生です。8月から日本語をべんきょうしています。日本りょうりや日本文化やJーポップが大好きですから。中学生の時、私は熊本に一ヶ月住んでいました。私はしょうらいの仕事で日本語をつかいたいです。よろしくおねがいします。

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Voice Thread
  • 2019/10/24: Voice Thread #1
  • 2019/11/1: Reply to Voice Thread #1
  • 2019/11/2: Reflection #1
    • What part I have paid attention to when I worked on the assignment and I think I did well: I think I did well in terms of pronunciation and accent. For the past two years, I have watched quite a few Japanese TV shows and movies and I believe I pronunciate things based on what I remember hearing from the shows. I also put a lot of effort in making sure the content is based on my own experience. I tried to adapt what we learned in the class to fit my narratives.
    • What part I think I could improve: Incorporating more complex sentence structures and using new vocabularies we recently learned in the class. I realized that I did not use new vocabularies from Lesson 8 onward as I am still not familiar with them. I need to practice using these words more often to make them stick. I also acknowledged that my main weakness is on conjugating verbs and adjectives. I still cannot do that naturally and automatically.
    • What I have learned from this particular VT assignment, from my peers’ videos, and from feedback from the instructor: This assignment really helped me putting together all I have learned in the class to become conversational. It was much harder than I thought; to get a one-minute video, it took me almost an hour to prepare. It also made me realize that, while I thought I mastered all the grammar points, my speaking skill is still quite lacking. Seeing my peers' videos, I observed different paces and skills everyone has. It was quite motivating that my peers are doing so well and I want to be fluent like them. The instructor's feedback confirms my thought that I need to improve on using more varieties of sentence structures. Her positive feedback, especially on pronunciation and personalized content, made me happy and inspired to further improve.
    • Vision and goal for the next assignment: I hope to become more fluent in speaking Japanese, use more varieties of sentence structures and vocabularies, and continue to personalize my responses.
  • 2019/11/7: Voice Thread #2
  • 2019/11/15: Reply to Voice Thread #2
  • 2019/11/16: Reflection #2
    • What part you have paid attention to when you worked on VT2 and you think you did well. (pronunciation, accent, contents, organization, complexity, etc.): I made sure to use more varieties of grammar structures and personalize my response. It was quite a challenge trying to say everything I wanted to say given my limited knowledge of Japanese.
    • What part you think you could improve and what you have learned from your peer's videos and from feedback from the instructor: Watching my peer's videos again inspired me to become more fluent and use more adverbs and transition/conjunction phrases.
    • Comparing VT1 and VT2, what progress and improvements you can observe: I used more varieties of grammar in VT2.
    • What you would like to work on and pay attention to in developing speaking skills in Japanese: I still have to think a lot when speaking, leading to me pausing in random spots or speaking quite slowly. I want to become more fluent so I need to practice more often.
Final Project
  • 2019/12/5: 私の好きな所
  • 2019/12/6: Reflection
    • What part I have paid attention to when I worked on the assignment and I think I did well: Content with detailed explanation of different events and characteristics of the place. Presentation with a lot of photos accompanying the story. Overall
    • What part I think I could improve: Use more variety of grammatical structures. Speak slightly faster. Improve the use of conjunction and transition phrases.
    • What I have learned from this project, from my peers’ videos, and from feedback from the instructor: I realized that there is still so much more I need to learn to be able to communicate effectively in Japanese. Also, I should continue practicing speaking so it feels natural and I can improve my accent.
    • Vision and goal for the next assignment: I, again, hope to become more fluent in speaking Japanese and use more varieties of sentence structures and vocabularies in my Japanese conversations.