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しゃしんかすぎもと

私は今学期しゃしんをとるのクラスがあります。私たちはしゃしんをとってゆうめいなしゃしんかがとったしゃしんを見ます。すぎもとさんのうみのしゃしんはとてもおもしろくてきれいだと思います。これは英語で「Seascapes」と言って、びじゅつかんで大きいですよ。

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Sea of Japan, 1997

Baltic Sea, 1996

North Atlantic Ocean, 1996

すぎもとひろしは１９４８年に東京で生まれて大学をそつぎょうしてからアメリカにアーティストになり行きました。それから、ニューヨークに行ってたくさんりょこうをしました。がいこくでいろいろなうみのしゃしんをとりました。このしゃしんをとるのはむずかしかったそうです。たとえばときどき三週間の期間中（over a three week period）一つよいしゃしんをとりました。でもたくさんアウォードをもらいました。ぜひこのしゃしんが大好きですが、もっときれいなプロジェクトがあります！小さいしゃしんがあるけど、このリンクはいいですよ：

sugimotohiroshi.com/portfolio.html

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Locations of some Seascapes

すぎもとのしゃしんを見るのが好きですか。いみはなんだと思いますか。

PE Reflections and Goals

Goals:
I aim to improve my main conversational issue: pitch. While I am content with my rhythm, my pitch, especially near the end of sentences, fluctuates a good amount. I hope to improve my pitch control without losing the continuity and speed that I have come to speak with.

I intend to do this by getting a better grasp of common pitch patterns.

Activity Statement:
I will watch more Japanese language films, as I have found them not only enjoyable but very helpful when it comes to using correct pitch and learning conversational cues.

I also hope to do more shadowing as the semester continues, especially in casual speech, which is another area I am not proficient.

Though my schedule usually doesn't allow me to, I would like to go the language table as well.

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中休み - ブラジル

はじめて南米（South America) にいきましたから私の中休みはとてもたのしかったです。ブラジルにすんでいる友達のごかぞくをたずねにいきました。まず友達と二つフライトをのらなければなりませんでした。それからうんてんしなくちゃいけませんでしたから、ニューヨークからごかぞくのうちまで二十九じかんかかりましたが、それはかちがあった。

うちはうみのちかくにですから毎日およいでよんでやけしました。一度およぎながら四マティーをみてたくさんしゃしんをとりました。マナティーはふとったとかわいいですけどとかわいいですけどすくないがいません。そうして私たちはうんがいかったです。

いしゅうかんのあと、ともだちとリオデジャネイロにいきました。かのちでこのおもしろいじじつをききしました：にほんいがいの、たいていのにほんじんがブラジルにすんでいます。ブラジルでひゃくごじゅうまんひゃくごじゅうまんにほんじんがいます。ついにかんこうをしてからニューヨークにかえらなくちゃいけませんでした。

やすみがよかったですが、こうりょはとてもむずかしかったですよ。

じゃまた

PE Goals

Though I did not take Japanese 101, しばたせんせい introduced me to PE and I had some trouble with intonation and rhythm. Hopefully this is because I haven't taken a Japanese class in nearly two years and will quickly improve, but I have based my following goals around these two aspects of improving my speech.

Goals:

- Improve my pitch and intonation through practice. Especially with specific words in nakama.
- Focus on the rhythm of words and sentences.
- Work on my -r in Japanese

Activities:

- Do shadowing everyday
- Go to the language table when possible
- Visit office hours regularly

Introduction

Hello, everyone!

My name is Spyder, I'm a sophomore and this is the first Japanese class I have taken at Princeton.

I never planned to take Japanese in high school because I was already a few years into French and Latin, but on my first day I realized I would not be able to continue taking French due to a scheduling conflict. Looking through the course catalog to find a replacement, Japanese stuck out not only because I hardly knew we had the department, but because learning alphabets and language structures so different from those in the Romance languages was an exciting possibility.

There were also a few cultural influences that led me to Japanese. Firstly, Hayao Miyazaki's films such as Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle are some of my favorite films to this day and were my introduction to animated film. I always wanted to be able to watch the Japanese versions of his films. Secondly, I had been using はし (chopsticks) everyday since 3rd grade when we spent half of the year focusing on Japanese culture, and is something I still try to do when possible on campus though it is hard to maintain.

Japanese quickly became one of my favorite and most engaging classes and I continued to take it all four years of high school. Having recently switched out of engineering here at Princeton, there was no doubt I would return to Japanese for my language studies, and I hope to have a more solid foundation of grammar, listening, and pronunciation by the end of the semester

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