わたしのfavorite にほんwriter は Haruki Murakami

わたしのfavorite にほんwriter は Haruki Murakami.His autobiographical novel "Norwegian Wood" is his most famous work(it's already produced as a movie recently), but I prefer some of his other works, especially "Dance! Dance! Dance!"and "Kafka on the Shore".

Murakami has also translated a lot of American novels, and his favorite writer is Raymond Carver(he has translated lots of Carver's novels)----- 奇妙なでし：Carver's novels are Representative of Minimal art, which is totally different from the style of Murakami's novels.

Murakami also talks about musics and foods in his novels as well as travelling notes (every year he spends half time writing, and the rest time travelling------素晴らしい人生!).

Encouraged by Murakami's book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running", I even persisted in running everyday for one entire year, but I cannot do what Haruki has done------he has run for several miles everyday for more than 20 years, for he considers art as a poisonous material, which has to be deleted by running.

Some reviewers think that Haruki's novels are short of intellectual depth, I think they have to shut up after reading Murakami's recent work "1Q84"------there are so many serious topics in this book. I think Haruki probably could win the Nobel Prize in the future.   

Haruki Murakami

the movie "Norwegian Wood"

"Dance! Dance! Dance!"

Murakami is running(photo in the book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running")

Raymond Carver

1Q84

My Goal and Strategies in Learning Japanese (listening and speaking)

My Goal and Strategies in Learning Japanese (listening and speaking)

Object: Basically can listen, speak Japanese at the end of this semester. 

Strategies

1.     1、 Have a conversation partner who is a native speaker of Japanese ( One Japanese student and I are in an English practicing program, so I could also practice speaking Japanese with him)

2.      2、Do the listening exercises and speaking exercises (e.g., Shadowing) as often as you can. yes

3.     3、 Listen to naturally spoken Japanese, such as news on Youtube, and Japanese songs a lot. y

4.     4、 While watching anime/drama, mimic what the characters are saying.