110: Reflection on This Week's Learning

[Molly Cramer]

This week I have done a lot of reviewing of terms and words that we did a long time ago in the beginning of the semester. This has been super helpful because it's serving as a refresher of the topics we covered a while ago and therefore are not as present in my memory. I was really excited at the end of our last practice session because Louise had Malory and I have a practice conversation in Swedish and I was very impressed by how easily we were able to converse. I would never have thought in the beginning of the semester that I'd know so much. Even the other day I was talking to my boyfriend about things I was cooking and was able to talk about everything in Swedish! Also, another cool "Swedish" moment that Malory and I had last week was when I need to ask her a very covert question (and there were other people around) so I was able to ask her in Swedish and get an answer without alerting the other people. From this experience, however, I did learn that it's important when you're speaking a non-dominant language among people who you think don't understand that you have to be really careful about what you're saying. You must use your bilingual abilities for good and not evil! You never know who is going to be around and might just understand what you're saying. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the exam and also spending the Christmas break with my boyfriend's family so I can practice all of this Swedish that I have been learning.