{"id":22,"date":"2026-02-19T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/japn311draft\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:05:45","slug":"reflective-letter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiarab-japn302\/reflective-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflective Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><strong>Transfer &amp; Connections to Discipline<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some major courses and course material that I connected closely with what I have learned as a Japanese major is Japanese course 302 because this class was where I learned the most grammar and made the most friends that had similar interest to me. Some course material that I think first helped me was describing &#8220;what I couldn&#8217;t do before that I can know&#8221; I feel like that was one of my favorite grammar structures that I learned about.<\/p>\n<pre><em><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/16FPH46GuJuLFStC-kaRibvV3hBlt127ZV4JT9SeGKmA\/edit?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/16FPH46GuJuLFStC-kaRibvV3hBlt127ZV4JT9SeGKmA\/edit?usp=sharing<\/a><\/em><\/pre>\n<p>Another one of my favorite&#8217;s points in this class is describing something that we had to do or that we must do. I think it would help me in Japan when I&#8217;m working there.<\/p>\n<pre><em><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1PtaEfMhRYmyvZgGW1GkWG2WGwyJKD9spB1D14RzK1Vs\/edit?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1PtaEfMhRYmyvZgGW1GkWG2WGwyJKD9spB1D14RzK1Vs\/edit?usp=sharing<\/a><\/em><\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff99cc\"><strong>Self-Assessment and Reflections<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some frustrations that I had this semester was speaking Japanese. My pronunciation wasn&#8217;t really great and when speaking to other Japanese students it was hard for them to understand me. Now I try to speak Japanese almost every day so not only does it help with pronouncing new vocabulary word, but I can also stop being so nervous when trying to communicate in that language. This helps be better understand my major because it helps me feel like I&#8217;m getting better at studying or learning the Japanese language. By also talking with other Japanese students I&#8217;ve come to realize that they are also learning English and also a bit slow at the language which makes me feel a lot better about my Japanese language journey. I&#8217;d imagine that having good pronunciation is this language is something that I need if I&#8217;m going to be moving to Japan one day. I also plan on becoming an English teacher when I get there so having the students understand me would be a big help. I also want to communicate better with the staff. If I&#8217;m going to be working with them, I would want to understand what&#8217;s going on as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transfer &amp; Connections to Discipline Some major courses and course material that I connected closely with what I have learned as a Japanese major is Japanese course 302 because this class was where I learned the most grammar and made the most friends that had similar interest to me. Some course material that I think&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiarab-japn302\/reflective-letter\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32177,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiarab-japn302\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiarab-japn302\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiarab-japn302\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiarab-japn302\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiarab-japn302\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiarab-japn302\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiarab-japn302\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiarab-japn302\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}