Having a semester's worth of experience behind me and looking forward, I would like to proceed with my pronunciation/speaking skills as follows:
Things I want to improve:
I want to continue to work on my conversation speed - continue moving towards smoother sentences and work on my sentence flow.
Additionally, I think my pronunciation has improved greatly. However, the finer nuances like intonation and word pitch are two things that I want to continue to focus on.
Ideally, by the end of the semester I will be able to converse with the larger picture in mind.
To do this, I will do the following:
Every week, work on the fundamentals of my speaking (by reviewing exercises in the textbook and lecture slides) -- grammar, vocabulary.
I will do shadowing every couple weeks and focus on intonation and word pitch.
I will mark my progress in conversation speed and monitor to see if I need more focus on this area.
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