From this weeks reading I found very useful teh chapter on how to treat body language. Eventhough we may not understand what is been said the bodili behavior can help with our understanding of the meaning of certain words. One of the most difficul things I have encountered up until this moment about leraning Farsi is merely the fact that I have no background on persian culture whatsoever. Learning a new language that I have never been exposed to is very hard, with more popular languages (like english, spanish, french, german, italian, among others) I may not know how to speak htem but I have been exposed to them somehow either by travelling, movies or by meeting people from such countries. But with persian is a whole new world for me. Up until this moment I only know the basic vocabulary to introduce myself and ask another person how they are. Persian version: saelam, hal shuma chetor ast? xub (good) or baed, baed nist (not bad ).khoda hafez (goodbye) and shab bakhair or sob bakhair.
The chapter on how we make speech sounds is very useful as well because Farsi has a certain sound like when we peonounce the word xub that is not in Spanish as well as the way they prononun the letter geyn. This chapter help on how to use our mouths to make uch unusual languages. I have decided to use prof.Grove suggestion on trying to set myself the goal of learning at least 5 words per day and during the weekends I have decide to just repeat them as well as making flashcards to help with the memorization.
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