Over these two weeks, I worked with my language partner on maintaining my grammar and improving my listening comprehension (through cartoons, songs and spoken stories). My language partner has started finding some children's stories for us to use in our lessons. He reads them to me, and then he asks me questions about them. It is much easier for me to answer the questions when I have the story in front of me so that I can read along when he is reading, but I know it is important for me to develop my listening skills enough that I do not have to see the words being spoken in order to comprehend them. We are working on taking away that crutch, but for now, it is more effective for me to read along.
I have also been working on finding some songs for my cultural project. Through these songs, I have learned new Ukrainian words and phrases, and I have also been able to gain a deeper insight into the political climate of Ukraine.
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