111 Week 7

[malory rodriguez]

So I feel like I am at a standstill with Swedish. We are in a more advanced level and in advanced levels you need to speak more. The problem is I am so terrified of speaking that whenever we try I figure out a way to avert attention or change the topic. I was super motivated a few weeks ago to practice speaking every day but life got in the way and I just stopped. Recently we have been reading articles and having to summarize them for class. The problem is I feel like it isn't helping me at all because I don't know what most of the article is saying, so then I go to google translate, which is kind of defeating the purpose. Also another frustrating thing is that I need to start learning more verbs. But then I go to learn more verbs and get so confused with the semantics of grammar that I tell myself that I will come back to it later. Also I feel like vocab tends to be easier because when learning about fruit there are so many vocab words that go under the category of fruit. But how does one do that with verbs? There is no real over arching category for that. I think I am just a point of frustration because I feel like I am not getting better, due to no one's fault of my own. But I am not quite sure what to do to get passed this point.