Biweekly Post #6

[Azin Bahari]

The 10^th and 11^th weeks of my language learning consisted of learning about family members and how to refer to your own family members and others’ family members. This is where we really had to exercise our knowledge of the possessive conjugation that we learned prior. It was a huge mental exercise for me and definitely took some getting used to. To get used to these concepts, we described a person via their family members, i.e. we figured out someone was a daughter, younger sister, etc. based on their relation to their family members. There are also a lot of family member titles, and for the aunts and uncles there are different names depending on whether the aunt or uncle is on the paternal side of the family or the maternal side. Getting used to the large amount of family words and possessive at the same time was quite a mental stretch for me, but it was very gratifying once I got a hang of it.