JLC- Mason Brianna

おすしパーティ (Sushi Party): In this story, the author is giving step by step instructs on how to put together a hand roll, including what ingredients you can use and how to prep said ingredients. This book's genre centered mostly around food, but I would also consider it to be daily life and a photobook with its use of photos. The use of photos and bullet points help separate information and repetition of common words help with memorization.  私の子犬マオマオ (My puppy Maomao): This story is about the author's puppy, Maomao. It gives the puppy's background, like when he was born and his heritage, his temperament, the name of his favorite stuffed animal, Pluto, his love of tug of war, and some other events in his life. This book mostly fits into the genre of animals, but like the previous one, can included photobook and daily life. This book relied on larger pieces of text, more kanji, and photos.   Reflection: Both books I read for this assignment had a high usage of photographs to help...

There has been very little that has happened regarding language since my last assessment in May, but as is customary for the beginning of the school semester, I want to take a look at how I've changed, even if it isn't much. Last January I restarted my journey in learning Japanese, and at that time I had felt like I was entirely out of my league and that I would essentially ruin my grades by being unable to keep up with the class. Despite that, however, I made it a priority to not push myself past certain limits and try and grow as a language learner simply for myself. What ended up happening was much better than I could have hoped for at the time, and besides bringing me joy when I was struggling with stress from other courses, my work by the end of class helped me realized that a big portion of my I lacked confidence was an uncertainty of my abilities against my peers' and something I might now call shame of what I thought was failure.  Even though I still struggled with ...