105: Learning Journal #5

[Nirshiee Arumugam]

Over the past few weeks, I have learned a plethora of vocabulary ranging from body parts to family members to days of the week and so on. However, retaining all the words has been a challenge. Because this is a brand new language for me, memorizing these words is not so simple. After discussing learning strategies in class, I think I will start making flashcards to help me study. Also, trying to relate each word to something that is already familiar to me will help. In class we talked about how adding meaning to a word is what will help when recalling the word in the future. My goals for the weeks to come is to learn new vocab every week, but more importantly review words from previous weeks. I have also started putting together sentences, so I want to keep working on that because I know that will be the most useful when speaking.