Reflections Week Three

[Becky Walker]

This week was a combination of frustration and learning. I am finding the aural exercises overwhelming, because I am expecting to gain more from them than I am. The challenge is being able to overcome my frustrations of knowing no content, and still listen for any clues of words, greetings, or sentence separation. I generally try to avoid using listening exercises until my competency is a bit greater, so this is a learning process of both language and learning.The google-book that I found online has helped greatly with grammar and basic terms. It has been the perfect filler until my Modern Persian book arrives next week.Thus far, everything on my lists have been completed for the past three weeks. Now all I have to do is use the words and phrases repetitiously so that can use them outside of the groups in which I learned them. I will begin to scramble my flash cards so that all the colors, numbers, and phrases aren't in their individual groups but interspersed with each other.Overall, I am still pleased with my progress. I throughly enjoy our drill classes, I am finding them extremely beneficial, especially our most recent class when Mona spoke entirely in Farsi at the beginning, and we try to interpret what she was saying.