This week in our tutoring session we discussed months of the year days of the week and numbers from 1-10. We were able to use this information to partially tell the date, however not learning numbers above 10 we cannot tell the entire date yet. There are two sets of months in the Hebrew language. The first set of months is the ancient one that consists of over 12 months. We chose not to focus on this as it does not seem relevant to our goal of developing conversational language skills. We focused more on the ability to pronounce the modern 12 months. These are very similar to the English pronunciations of the words so it was fairly easy to learn these.
The reading for this week Figuring Foreigners Out was very informational, however things I believe are able to be noticed just by living and paying attention to others. Simply the way people carry themselves and their facial expressions can be a strong indicator of people's country or general area of their origin. One thing I found especially interesting was hand signals and the subtle differences from culture to culture. Also hand motions that can be friendly in America can, as it turns out, can be offensive in other cultures, and vice versa. Miscommunications like this can result in events that can be very negative for all involved. Information about other cultures is imperative to learn when traveling abroad, as to not accidentally cause an international incident.
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