私の勉強方法を見直すこと

私は年末に家族と一緒に大阪へ行くけど、日本語でそこの人に話せるようになりたい。今まで、私の主要な目標は日本語の本を読めるようになることだったから、あまり会話の方面に努力していなかった。しかし、四ヶ月だけが残るし、短期間以内にどれだけ上達できるのか知らない。欲を言うと一緒に話して練習できる人があるが、私は日本語を話す友達がないし、私にとってはオンラインで家庭教師を求めて話すのがちょっと怖い。まあ…実は、ある日本語も英語も両方分かる日本人を知る。ソーシャルメディアで彼女をフレンドに追加したが、私たち特に親しいと絶対に言わない。

だから計画はこんな感じ。一つの私が見つけた問題は、フラッシュカードを復習する時に私はある文章の空欄を埋めるために正しい単語を見つけられるのに、即席に文章を思いつくのは別の話だね。だから、第一歩は、文法構造を本当に記憶に留めるために、私が過去に書いた投稿を覚えてみることだ。でも、四ヶ月以内にペラペラになることは絶対に非現実的だから、私も日本に行く前に表現をいくつか準備する。いずれにしても、大阪の人に話せるようにならなくても、過程で上達する。

Revising my Study Method

I will be going to Osaka with my family at the end of the year, and I want to be able to speak to the people there in Japanese. Up until now, my primary goal had been to be able to read books in Japanese, so I've not really expended much effort on the conversational aspect. However, there's only 4 months left, and I don't know how much I can improve within so short a period of time. Ideally I'd have someone with whom I can practice speaking with, but I don't have friends who speak Japanese, and finding and conversing with a private tutor online is a little scary for me. Well...actually, I do know a Japanese person who can speak both Japanese and English. I have her added as a friend on social media, but I definitely wouldn't say that the two of us are particularly close.

So here's the plan. One problem I've noticed is, even though I am able to come up with the correct word to fill in the blank in a sentence when reviewing flashcards, conjuring sentences on the spot is a whole different story. Hence, the first step is to try memorising the posts I'd written in the past, so as to really commit the grammar structures to memory. However, to reach fluency within 4 months is definitely unrealistic, so I will also prepare some phrases before I go to Japan. In any case, even if I'm unable to speak to the people in Osaka, I will still improve in the process.