During this past week, I worked on creating my second artifact for Hindi, which was in two parts. In the first part, I video-taped a conversation that I had with my language partner about identity, family, and some of her favorite foods -- basically a culmination of what I had learned in the past few weeks (I had just begun to learn foods, however). She also asked me questions about myself, my sister, and basically just about our lives.
For the second part of my artifact, I wrote out questions that I thought would be good conversation-starters to discuss identity, and I also wrote a paragraph about my family and described them. (Please see blog entry entitled "Hindi Artifact #2" for my artifact).
During this past week, I also did two lessons from the GLOSS Foreign Language Center's website. One was called "The Meeting: A Casual Conversation on the Street," and it provided reading/vocab practice for getting to know a stranger. The second lesson was "To My Grandmother," and it was about a letter written to one's grandmother. This activity gave me reading/writing practice with learning the different family relationship vocabulary, as well as expressions that are related to respect (especially respecting those who are older).
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