Progress so far...

[Roman Abdul Satar]

The most difficult part of learning the language is to decided where to start learning it. I have been exposed to Farsi/Dari language most of my life and it is tough to decide what I have not learned. I am able to speak and understand what I hear, however my bank of vocabulary is not too broad. I have the most difficulty to read and write in Farsi/Dari. Therefore, I decided to start from reviewing what I know which is the alphabet and trying to write each letter.

The first time that I met with Sofia, we discussed my goals and my knowledge of the language. I wanted to practice my reading and writing skills, which we focused on. Sofia asked me to write a number of words that uses each letter in the beginning, middle, and the end of the words. The purpose for this exercise was for me to learn how to combine the letters and make a word. I continued using every letter of the alphabet by writing it in the end, middle and the beginning of the word. The most difficult part of this exercise for me was to find the words that have those letter in the middle or the end. When I was not able to come up with the word that uses certain letter, as Sofia recommended, I went on to the web and trying to read words and see if they have the letter that I need. At the end of this exercise I have written many words and couple of them were new for me. This was my first exercise and by doing this some of the staff that I have learned before was coming back to me, my eye was getting used to the alphabet and it was easier to recognize the letters.