Goal: Vocabulary
This week, I focused heavily on vocabulary. My language partners and I met twice and their main focus was to teach me whatever vocabulary words I felt I use on a day to day basis.
To start some were:
love: prem
friend: mithra
sun: suriya
book: chopadi
water: pani
student: shickshack
grade: marks
dance: naach
dinner: jumvanu
sky: aakash
dream: supahna
color: rung
grass: ghass
clouds: vahdera
thank you: abharr
In addition to these words, there were many words that don't have Gujarati translations, like success, exercise, pencil, pen, and bottle. My language partners said that in this case, I should just add a Gujarati accent. That is the most effective way to use them in a sentence.
I focused on learning words that I could use in basic sentences. For example: I am drinking water.
(Hu pani piu che)
I am started to formulate sentences without the help of my language partners based solely on the vocab that I am learning from them and books that I have.
I was able to formulate and say that I loved my mom over the phone (Hu tane prem karu chu)
She didn't know what I said, but that wasn't the point. The sentences that I am making are correct and I am able to remember the structure which makes it even easier to learn more. My confidence in this recent learning process is what helps me to learn even more!
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