Looking back at my previous Prosody Exercises, I'm quite happy with my progress. I think I've improved my speed and enunciation, and I am also making some progress regarding pitch patterns – that has been a goal of mine since the beginning but I feel that I stagnated for quite some time. Now I'm becoming more conscious of pitch patterns and intonation when listening to the sensei speaking in class, and I think I can say that I'm more aware of pitch patterns when shadowing audio clips (I still make some mistakes but less than before).
It goes without saying that I want to continue working on pitch patterns – I am planning to schedule some meetings during office hours just to work on this, I also plan on spending some time discussing grammatical concepts that may not have been covered yet in Nakama 1 but I think will be useful this summer (I am planning on taking part in Princeton In Ishikawa this summer, so I think certain concepts like conditional statements would be very useful when communicating there).
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