March 21st-25th week in review 5

[Andrew Lyell]

This week was a very practical week for me.  We learned about a few different uses of a particular particle.   This particle can be used a very wide range of situations, and is very commonly used.  The problem for me is that I tend to think of something meaning one thing, not several different things.  Anyway, at this point I just need more practice with it.

 

We also had an awesome listening class.  This class I realized how much I had learned this semester because I was able to pick up so much of the dialogue.  It was very encouraging to notice that much of the vocabulary used, I had learned this semester.

 

On Friday of this week, we spend the meeting making two different artifacts: one on the pronunciation of different Bengali letters learned the previous week, and another on Bengali counting.  In the Bengali counting video, I could from 1-40 on the creases of my fingers.  Although one might think of counting is an easy task in a language, in Bengali, this is not so.  There is not a distinct pattern for counting, (the 30s do not have the same pattern as the 20s) like English, Japanese, or Spanish.  This makes remember the numbers very difficult remember, so difficult in fact that my language partner even struggles with them.  My goal is to learn all the numbers through 50 by the end of the semester, and after that all the 10s and 5s.