にほんごのじゅぎよう:New Goal Statement

Now that Japanese 101 has been going on for some time now, I think I have a much better sense of what I need to do to improve and keep up with my lessons in a manner that's satisfactory to me.  I think its easiest to compile a short little list of the major changes I'm going to try to make.

-まいばんにほんごのきょうかしょをよみます。:

This might seem obvious but it's a major change I need to make. Most days of the week I tend to simply do my homework, study for a quiz (if there is one) and call myself done for the night. I think I would feel a lot more comfortable in class, especially in terms of speaking and general grammar structure if I spent time with the book every night regardless of whether or not I have homework.


先生の Office Hours に いきます :

I definitely haven't been making good use of the office hours available to me. Mainly because my tight class scheduling makes it difficult. But I think that if I took the time to go, a lot of the points in class that move a bit quickly for me and adversely affect my speaking would get ironed out rather easily. 

Those are the two major changes... but in general I also want to...
-Practice Dict-a-conversation exercises more
-Speak more in my free time and make a greater effort to attend language tables,  
-Ask more clarifying questions in class
-Take more organized, thorough class notes
I think that if I can at least meet some of these goals, my fluidity of speaking will improve massively and i'll be much more comfortable forming and responding to questions in class.