Learning Journal 5

(a) My first artifact conversation consists of common greetings, introductions and farewells. I tried my best to shake the Russian pronunciation that I am so used to using, but I had a suspicion that I still made some mistakes. I let my language partner listen to the recording, and he said that I was pronouncing things better than I originally did, but I still made a few mistakes. Pronunciation will be an ongoing theme for my Ukrainian studies.

(b) For weeks 4-5, I wanted to learn the gender rules, the possessive pronouns and their uses in nominative case, how to ask "whose" questions with the correct gender, how to ask about someone or something's location, and how to use pronouns correctly. I expected this to be much more similar to Russian, and I was surprised by the various differences. Once I got past my preconceived ideas, I did not have much trouble mastering these topics.

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