110: Reflection Week 4

[Carly DeFaria]

This week I've been mainly focusing on trying to learn the body parts and words for different types of injury or disease. I've decided to focus on some aspect of healthcare for my cultural project so I think it will be important for me to know body parts. I've learned words for: hand, foot, head, hair, fingers and toes, back, chest, stomach, eyes, ears, mouth, nose and face. I have also learned how to say that some body part was injured (literal translation injury has struck in a certain body part). I am finding the way in which Hindi speech identifies action very interaction. For instance in aforementioned "injury has struck my hand" instead of "I hurt my hand." There is a similar situation when stating that you have lost something, instead of "I lost my wallet" it literally translates to "my wallet has become lost." I feel like this way of stating things takes some of the blame off of the person. It suggests that the action happened to someone instead of the person being the causative agent of the action. In further terms of healthcare I have learned how to say "I need help" and "Call a doctor." Through the next week I will try and focus on more specific health vocabulary like rash, itch, bite, etc.