110 Week 8

[malory rodriguez]

So this might not be the most positive post due to the large amount of frustration I feel towards Swedish right now. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy the class and learning about the language and culture but it is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. We have a midterm scheduled for next Wednesday on everything we have covered up until this point. I made a study guide and barley remember half the terms. I think what I need to start doing is make myself review everything each week. Because I am quite good at cramming and then we take the test, I do well and then I forget everything and with learning a language you can't do that. I think it's also that point in the semester where I am starting to loose steam. When starting the year I was going to get all As and be amazing in all my classes, but its at the point where it's hard to motivate myself to do things. I need to find something inventive and new that will excite me into doing more than the expected work in Swedish.  If I put in more than the required amount of work I will do well. In class this week we had a test on food (which I did't know much of) and discussed the body parts and clothing. Another tid bit I also need to realize is I can't memorize too many words at once. I need to get the basics down and then move forward to the more intricate things. Cause as of now I am expecting myself to know both at the same time, which is extremely difficult and gets be discouraged. I plan to meet with Lousie this weekend to have a little one on one time to fix the areas where I desperately need help. This week has been frustrating, but ill get there.