My Reflection:

The main frustrations that I had to deal with this semester was relying too heavily on translator applications. I think that I had hit a point where I felt less confident in myself this semester (with Japanese classes and also personal problems affecting my mood). I still have times where I don’t feel very confident in my Japanese, but the way that I solved this problem was to use the applications less often. I would use Jisho more often than the translator app (DeepL) because using Jisho helped me more with vocabulary than with just translating whole sentences. An example of this is for some of the Kanji journals that I did, I would struggle with finding the meaning so there were times where I had relied on translation apps. But in the end, I realized that this didn’t really help me in the long term so I decided to use Jisho. Even though it was harder to complete with Jisho than the translator app, I think eventually if I continue using Jisho then the results will be better in the future. By responding to this challenge, my learning process has gotten better because by using these apps more loosely I think that this has helped me to slowly become more confident in my skills (which has bettered my learning process). I think that knowing how to be more confident in my skills will be very useful in the future. This is because it will help me become what I want to be in the future (which is an interpreter) and will get me closer to achieving this goal better than if I wasn’t confident in my Japanese skills.