I can say that I am very happy with my first artifact. I was a little bit intimidated by preparing an artifact because I had never done it before... it was something new for me. I really liked what I did for my first artifact. I found a video on youtube, and downloaded it. I also recorded myself having a short conversation (such as hi, how are you, what is your name...). Once I had the video and my voice recorded, I combined them into one short video using iMovie. I also included a Turkish song in the video which I found online. I also included subtitles (I included both, Turkish and English subtitles) so that anyone who does not know Turkish could understand what I was talking about in the video. I showed my artifact to several people and my language partner and they all liked it!
There is a greeting "Merhaba" in Turkish which I used in the video that we in Bosnia also use frequently, so that one was easy for me to memorize. I kept practicing this conversation for so long because I really wanted my artifact to be very good! There was one word that I had A LOT of trouble with pronouncing it (tanıştığımıza) because that word has several letters that neither English nor Bosnian alphabet has.
I have been working on my goals that last week I set out to reach. I worked on present continuous and I can say that it is not very hard. Actually I enjoyed it a lot. There are some tricks that you have to be very careful when forming a sentence in present continuous. I also started working on telling the time, but at this point I am still not very confident that I am very good at it. I think that telling the time in any language can be very difficult. I think I focused more on present continuous and grammar than telling the time, so I think I should work more on the time now. I also learned many Turkish words, especially verbs because when I practiced present continuous I had to use different verbs in order to completely understand the rules.
My language partner told me that I am doing well and that my accent is really good! This was very motivating for me, because at first I thought that when I pronounce something in Turkish nobody is going to understand me. But now, I feel more confident.
I think I asked a lot from myself last time when I thought I was going to achieve so much in such a short period of time, however, I think I did a lot of work and am satisfied with my progress so far. I just need to keep up my work!
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