Evaluation of Artifact 1:
I think I did a pretty good job! I created a video of myself talking, greeting an invisible person, introducing myself, asking who they were, then telling them about who I am. There were certainly a couple words I stumbled over, but I showed Anna the video and she said she could understand everything I was attempting to say! For me, to have a native speaker be able to understand what I'm trying to say is the greatest accomplishment when it comes to learning a foreign language. It gives me confidence going forward as I try to learn new aspects of Norwegian. Certainly what I said was not flawless, but for a novice with no experience with germanic languages (outside of English), I feel pretty good at where I am at.
Assessment of Goals + Reflection:
I feel that I accomplished all of my goals. I'm certainly able to express greetings, farewells, and introductions both orally and written. If a random Norwegian came up to me right now and introduced themselves I think I would be prepared to reply to them. Again, my pronunciation is still not perfect, nor do I think it ever will be. I find myself adding a French accent to certain words or letters. My brain has certainly created a binary of expressing and understanding English and expressing and understanding French. When I try to do a foreign accent my mind just reverts to the latter section. Adding a new section for Norwegian with a significantly different accent is still quite difficult for me. Anna says my accent is cute, but I'm annoyed when I can't say the word entirely correct. But I feel, at least for the basics, I've done as well as I can for now.
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