End of Week 4 - Beginning of Week 5

[Will Cragin]

Week 4 Review - This past week I succeeded in reaching most of my goals. However, I did not learn numbers 20-100. I did however learn 5 new verbs, 5 new adjectives, fruits, and continued to review the alphabet. The highlight of the week was when Mona's mom came into class on Tuesday. She is a professor and was informative in answering our questions about Iran. She spoke at length about the Iranian revolution, what the anniversary means for Iranians, and how most Iranians view Americans and our policies to Iran. It was quite fascinating and gave me good insight into false notions of Iranian society that are widespread throughout American media.Resources - BBC Farsi, Farsi Textbook, Class notes, handouts, EasyPersian, language partner for speaking practice.Week 5 goals - This week I would like to continue to review the alphabet, learn basic clothes, weather, a few more verbs in present tense, possessives, and basic sentence structure. I am also going to be looking into a potential trip to Iran in May with our drill instructor, which hopefully will give me more motivation to study Farsi. I will also continue to listen to BBC Farsi and attempt to read sentences of articles to gauge my progress in reading Farsi script.Resources - BBC Farsi, Farsi Textbook, Class notes, handouts, EasyPersian, language partner for speaking practice.