My goals for Weeks 4 and 5 are to be able to construct a basic conversation about transportation in Hindi. To do this, I hope to learn key questions and answers about directions, place names or descriptions, bus/train numbers, and verbs about travel. I plan to look on Byki and Mango to find vocabulary and phrase lists of travel vocabulary, then also construct my own list of possible phrases by looking up words on Hindi dictionary sites, then checking them with my language partner.
For questions, I would like to know how to say:
How can I get to ___?
Where is ___?
Should I take a train/bus/auto?
Can you take me to ___?
How much does it cost to go to ___?
How far is ___?
I will also most likely need to know a few descriptor phrases to describe the places I am trying to go to:
Near ___
Next to ___
On ___ road
In ___ city/neighborhood/area
Restaurant, school, hotel, park
I will also need to be able to understand the answers to these questions:
Take ___ bus/train/auto
It is ___ miles away
It costs ___ rupees
To track my progress, I plan to have conversations with my language parter each time we meet to practice asking her directions and listening for her answers. My artifact will probably be an audio recording of a pretend conversation asking for directions and listing potential answers.
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