This week we established our goals for the semester and talked about how we want to proceed throughout the semester in order to achieve our goals and become more proficient in Swedish. Here are a few things we decided:
- Louise is going to speak more Swedish to us in our sessions, whether we understand her or not. Sink or swim!
- We are going to read more and listen to more Swedish outside the classroom so to speak. We have already found multiple TV shows that we think will help us pick up more Swedish skills and are going to be viewing them weekly.
- I also am making it a personal goal to read at least three articles in Swedish every week in order to become more familiar with verbs, sentence structures, etc.
- We also decided that rather than focusing too heavily on vocabulary and memorization this semester, we are going to learn some vocabulary but then pair it with grammar lessons/verbs and begin to construct usable sentences for every day life. We want this to be really practical rather than just spewing memorized words.
- I also hope to work on my prononciation and I think that listening/watching more Swedish will help with that.
For the remainder of the week we are going to start working on our first section of vocab/grammar and then begin to formulate sentences. I still obviously want to learn all of the words but actually using them is going to be more of a priority. The words we are learning are also becoming more complicated so I hope to use the time in our sessions to practice prononciation.
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