Goals:
-Focus on glides (you know, the や, ゆ, and よ combined with the き,し,ち,に,ひ,み,り) because to me they sound oddly interchangeable with the non-glides and the glottal stops (my approach to glottal stops right now is to abruptly stop speaking and then continue 2 seconds later, which probably isn't the way I'm supposed to do it)
-Intonation will be tricky because it's not something I would naturally do, but I'm hoping my background with music will make this a somewhat less arduous process
Methods
-Start watching anime! I'm going to solicit recommendations from Japanese friends and then try to shadow the more normal characters, so I don't come out of this sounding like a wizard or a villain
-Talk to real people who speak Japanese (I found some! They really nice!) whenever I can
-Listen to Japanese music and follow along with the lyrics (I love music, so this should be relatively painless)