Cultural Post 1- Bethany- 110

[bethany marcelle]

I want to learn Dari because my senior seminar paper was about midwifery and maternal mortality in Afghanistan. There are a lot of people who are leaving Afghanistan as immigrants and or refugees. I think there is a lot of use for this language and I think it sounds beautiful. In my learning plan I outlined more specifically what my goals were for learning this semester, but my general goal is to dip my toes into a very different language. I want to learn the sounds and accent. For me equally as important as vocabulary is a decent accent. I want to be able to hear Dari in my head the way I can hear Spanish or French or Italian, even though I don't speak much of the latter two. I want to have some basic vocabulary and a better understanding of the culture of Afghanistan by understanding various pieces of the language.