Reflection:

Pros: You can study at your own pace and the order that you want, (more freedom), you can learn a more casual way of speaking, (slang).

Cons: You might not know where to start, you might not figure out the formal way of speaking and might find it difficult because you don’t know how to get help.

I spent a lot of time learning the grammar and the different tenses and how they change sentences, I found it interesting how there were so many different ways to say the same word in Japanese and how different they were contextually when put in sentences, something that I would like to learn would be more kanji so that I can get a better understanding of Japanese texts and songs, the best way for me to do this would be to learn kanji and try to read more Japanese or visit Japan to further expand my knowledge on Japanese culture.

I will continue to improve my Japanese over the Summer break by talking to my Japanese friends and people in Japanese, and I will use Duolingo to retain my knowledge and expand it as well.

If I could go back in time my advice to myself would be to use Duolingo as it was really helpful I found that the order it thought things and how many times you could do the same exercise and have it be different thought me a lot of new words that we haven’t learnt in class and it also helped me remember the letters better.