110: Reflection on This Week's Learning

[Molly Cramer]

This past week was challenging for me because we are getting to the point where we know so many words that it's hard to remember them all! We had a quiz this past Wednesday and although I did well I felt like there were so many combinations of words that Louise used on the quiz that I wasn't familiar with. That said, at the same time she purporsefully put trick words on the quiz that she thought we would be able to guess intruitively. For instance, the word "visp" was on the quiz and I knew that it was probably just "whisp". There are also many different ways to say different kinds of beef/meat in Swedish (just like in English) so I thought it was challenging when she put "oxkött" on the quiz (meaning beef meat as opposed to a different kind of meat) when the word she had taught us for beef was "nött". But, I guess now I know two different ways to identify cow meat! We also went through last week all different parts of the body and words for different clothing items. Again, this was just a lot of information to process but I think with some flash cards and thinking rationally about the cognates and using the words in context I will be able to commit them to memory. Overall I'm proud of how far we have come as we approach the end of the semester.