- Learning Journal 5: Post (a) an evaluation of your First Artifact conversation, and (b) an assessment of how well you met your learning goals for weeks 4 and 5.
My first artifact conversation went well. I started with introduction expressions, stated my age, where I'm from, where I grew up and mentioned some of my hobbies and what languages I speak. I thought I could do some more revising for it to be perfect, but for the first time, it wasn't that bad. I hope to practice more as time goes on.
I would say I achieved my goals stated in my last post. I managed to learn days of the week, months, seasons, some describing words, times of the day and I'm able to read notices in the airports and public places. I also tried to learn fruits and food, although I definitely need revision of this. I feel confident about most of the vocabulary, however, saying the times of the day in Turkish is quite a challenge, since they have several ways of saying them. They either just use numbers, and that is relatively easier, or past/to, quarter/half past expressions, and I find this part challenging. I will definitely practice this during the upcoming weeks and do new exercises and try to ask and understand time in Turkish when I talk to my language partner, Turkish friends or classmates. I also revised colors, pronunciation and the ways to make the nouns plural. I think these weeks were a bit hard but very productive and I'm hoping to revise and improve more next weeks.
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