111 Week 5

[malory rodriguez]

So I realized there was a flaw in my plan to practice speaking. I don't actually know if I am pronouncing the words correctly. So I need to figure out how to practice speaking by myself but actually learning the right pronunciation. I thought about google translate for a second but then I realized google probably pronounces it just as bad as myself. I think I will try to look for some videos with subtitles or something along those lines. Or maybe even skype my friends some more. I have a few friends in Iceland and Sweden who speak Swedish. Perhaps if I could some how coordinate with them to speak once a week, that could help with improvement. But I am just so gosh darn shy when it comes to speaking it. Oh well I'll figure it out.   I also went to the global studio to check out what Swedish material there was. I didn't have a lot of time to spend there but I think it could be helpful, I just really need to review the basics. As for meeting this week, we did practice speaking the sentences we prepared and asked the questions we had. I think what has really been helping me is forcing myself to spend an hour on Swedish each day and by the time I have class with Louise I have a list of questions to ask.