During this past week, I focused on learning how to tell time, utilizing expressions like half an hour after __, etc. I also learned the numbers (up to 25), months, and days of the week.
In my meetings with my language partner, she helped me correct and review my vocab/sentence-making drills from one of the textbooks I am utilizing "Elementary Hindi Grammar" (by Dr Usha Jain). This was helpful in providing me with reading practice and with some more grammar practice, since I have been focusing a lot on vocabulary, listening, and pronunciation.
I also did another major activity from the GLOSS website's Foreign Language Center. This activity was called "The Trip," and it provided me with practice in listening and reading words related to time and numbers, as well as modes of transportation within India. This was helpful because as someone who wants to travel to India, I definitely need to be able to know words for "taxi," "car," "bus," etc. Many of the Hindi words are similar to what would be used in English -- "auto = car," etc, but there are also "pure Hindi" words for each of them.
In my meeting with my language partner, we also did a major content activity from "A Door Into Hindi." Since each activity has a video segment, followed by a grammar and vocab review, and then with exercises and a final quiz, it provides a lot of ways for me to check my progress on a certain topic. This time, we listened to the episode called "Delhi," which was about a man visiting one of his friends in New Delhi, and they go sight-seeing, utilizing expressions related to travel, tourism, and time expressions (here is the link: http://taj.chass.ncsu.edu/Hindi.Less.05/index.html). Since this website's exercises are in actual Hindi script, it helps me to practice the letters once again. It is still difficult to remember certain letters that look extremely similar, but I am working on it. When I meet with my language partner and we go over vocab, she will say the word aloud, and I have to spell it out in my notebook, so it forces me to remember the distinctions between certain sounds and letters.
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