Extensive and Intensive Listening

[Laura Major]

For my extensive exercise I found a youtube video of a childrens song that I thought was pretty simple. It was about farm animals and I had just learned some animals so I wanted to see if I would be able to recognize some of the words. I was able to recognize simple words like cow, horse, pig, dog, cat, and things but I couldn't understand the sentences that they were singing in the song. For my extensive listening exercise I listened to a song with lyrics that played at the same time that I had found off of youtube. I learned a lot more vocabulary and some verbs but I still didn't understand everything just in terms of the grammar. It was a lot different though hearing the Farsi and then reading it because it sounded different from what I would have thought but I was able to see where the sounds were coming from in the script.