What is your interest in 'your' language and what do you hope to accomplish this semester?
This upcoming summer I hope to go to Bangladesh and volunteer at a nursing home. In order to communicate with the residents, I would need to be able to have at
Read more…Summarize your assessment and goals in a blog post in your learning journal and on the first page of your learning plan.
Observing the “Levels of Competence” document I have categorized myself as a novice learner and my goal is to become intermediate
Read more…When given the opportunity, I have always tried my best to learn a new language. Growing up I had a lot of Indian friends who spoke Hindi. I watched a lot of Bollywood movies and overheard a lot of their conversations with their families, all which f
Read more…While practicing for my final assessment with my language partner, I talked about various aspects of my Study Abroad experience. Study%20Abroad.m4a
Read more…I was practice for my final assessment with my language partner, so I talked about my favorite festival Holi. Festival%20Of%20Holi.m4a
Read more…Reflect on your experiences as a language teacher and learning in this latest speed-dating workshop. What difficulties did you encounter?
I did not encounter many difficulties teaching the language since I was prepared with a presentation. However,
Read more…How do languages go extinct? Respond to the reading, reflecting on what happens when a language dies.
In today's society, languages go extinct when one language or a few main languages are used in most forms of global communication. For example, the
Read more…This week Atul and I only met for 1-1.5 hours since we both had busy schedules. This week was mostly about reviewing everything I had learned up until this point and seeing how much I have retained. It was also about using the vocabulary and tenses I
Read more…This week Atul and I worked on learning how to describe different rooms and objects in the home. I learned that there are not many words in Hindi to describe the home and English, especially American English is very specific when describing parts of
Read more…Do some preliminary research on what most interests you about the target culture, and describe how this topic relates to language.
One topic that interests me about Indian culture is how prevalent the Hindi language is within India and how different
Read more…This week Atul and I focused mostly on the list of topics I gave him that I wanted to cover. These are random topics but probably important and common words I should learn. We continue to focus on the difference between the words "main" which is in r
Read more…Describe the phonetic inventory of your target language. Are there sounds in your language that don't exist in English? Provide several phonetic transcriptions of important words.
The vowels in Hindi follow a more open-mouth sound based on the inte
Read more…This week Atul and I worked on learning the simple past tense for the verbs we have gone over for the past 2 weeks. Simple past was a little difficult for me because there are a few irregular verbs that had completely different conjugations from thei
Read more…How would you qualify or describe different aspects of your target culture? Reflect and your own experiences and expectations of the culture in question.
For the Hindi language I focus mostly on Indian culture because that is the culture I know most
Read more…This week Atul and I worked on 10 new verbs and their conjugations. We have been focusing on present and future continuous forms of the verbs and next week we will start looking at simple past because it's a little more complicated. We also went over
Read more…How have you organized your self-directed learning plan, and what have you learned so far?
I organized my self-directed learning plan by first having clear, attainable goals and then writing down 10 tasks that would help me achieve the goals. The tas
