Learning Journal #7

[Alper Daron]

Last week we in our meeting with Haya, we worked on our communicative tasks. For the first communicative task, all the Hebrew learners wrote down a dialog in class between an American guy, who goes to Israel on Birthright and an Israeli girl in a bar. The conversation is short, as our Hebrew is still not good enough to write a long dialog. First, we write down what we would want each character to say in English, and then Haya helped us translating it to Hebrew. Once we translated it, Nora and I recorded our voices and we posted it on Ning. Although I am not focusing on writing that much, I also asked Haya to help me in writing the dialog using Hebrew letters. It took me so long to write all the dialog in Hebrew, but I think in time I will get used to writing in Hebrew.

Another communicative task that we worked on was the Hebrew version of Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes song. Haya taught us how to sing this song in Hebrew, and once we all felt comfortable enough and memorized all the lyrics, we decided to perform and record. Zach, Nora and I had a lot of fun while recording it. I think this was a useful way of learning new vocabulary. Also, because we repeated the song so many times, the song got stuck in my mind all day, and now I can actually remember all the vocabulary.

Head --> Rosh
Shoulders --> Ktafaim
Knees --> Berhayim
Toes --> Etzbaot
Eyes --> Enayim
Ears --> Oznayim
Mouth --> Pe
Nose --> Af