February 21-25 week in review #2

[Andrew Lyell]

This week was an average week language learningwise.  For a grammar concept, I studied conditional construction.  While this construction is used commonly, the examples in my Bengali textbook were rather advanced.   So that was difficult for me.

 

I have noticed that native speakers do not use the word “and” very often.  While two forms of this word exists, one for linking sentences and another for linking nouns, I rarely hear it.  My language partner explained that instead of saying “I went to the store and then went home”, they would say “having gone to the store, I went home.”  It seems to me that they speak more like we write.  Anyway, this just adds another layer of complexity to learning the language.  Not an insurmountable challenge, but difficult.

 

The reading this week was great though.  It basically was two different kid’s stories and was about at my level.  I think more readings like this will improve my abilities to tell stories. My goal for next week is to finish writing a short story.