105 Learning Journal #5

[Gabrielle Raffio]

After finally mastering learning the Hebrew alphabet, its sounds, and the sounds of the vowels I would say that I have learned between 40-50 words. This number is much smaller than I originally would have guessed, but again I am at the Kindergarten level of learning. We are reading a book about a Queen who is looking for her villagers to build her a higher chair. It has been fun to learn the vocabulary from this book, but I can’t help but feel like it is not the most useful vocabulary. Because of this, I have tried to learn more vocabulary on my own that I find to be useful. My realistic goal by the end of the semester would be to learn 80-100 words. I think that I have had to lower my expectations of how much vocabulary I can learn in one semester. My vocabulary goals include things like: being able to converse in small talk while I’m in Israel this summer or be able to understand Hebrew while I am there. I think that with these goals in mind, my vocabulary will be more focused on conversations rather than random sentences.