Learning Journal #3

[Felicia Taylor]

Learning about the structure of my target language will be rather difficult, given that my main focus is not to learn the script. This means that I will have to search online and use my online sources as initial structures and then ask my language partner for confirmation. As long as I am checking it by my language partner, I think that reference grammar is a crucial and useful tool to start with. One of the hardest parts is identifying gender in Urdu words. Since I am used to Spanish, French etc. where words have clear patterned endings to identify gender, it is difficult for me to pick up on words and create the appropriate grammar. I will have to work on memorizing and learning these changes in order to properly use grammar.