Learning Journal #4 - listening activities

[Haley Harris]

This week I focused on learning basic greetings and continued to work on the alphabet. I feel relatively comfortable writing and identifying the letters of the alphabet when they are alone. In the next week I am going to focus on how letters are written when combined in a word.

As far as intensive listening activities, I watched a few youtube videos of people pronouncing basic greetings. The words were also shown on the screen, which helped me pronounce the phrases. Extensively, I watched some news reports on BBC in Farsi. I was lost for the most part, but I did get a better understanding of the inflection in the language. Even though I wasn't able to pick out any words I feel as though it was not a waste of time. If anything, it kept me motivated. One day I will understand what they are saying...for the most part...hopefully.


The Farsi phrase of the day is "to gelu dard dari" - my throat hurts....no really, my throat does hurt. :/