I have learned so many new words. Things got off to a slow start this semester, through a combination of several people's disorganization, but Emily, Stew and I are getting into a pattern. We meet a couple times a week and Stew and I come to the meeting with a list of things we want to know. Sometimes, Emily has ideas too. She has a good teaching style - we are getting to the point where I kinda can guess how to spell things, so she asks me to spell and I do my best. This gives me the opportunity to think about the word, see it, spell it, write it, hear her say it, all before I have even tried to speak it myself.
One of the things I have been considering in whether or not my language goals are realistic is how I am not learning verbs. I am confused by this. I think the verb conjugation structure is confusing, or maybe I am not advanced enough for it. At this point, I am just learning to "memorize" phrases and words. This works for me. Honestly, I have a lot of stuff going on right now, and sometimes all I can do is just work on the 20 words and phrases that we studied that night. But I know that I want to work on actual verb conjugation. This is my next goal. I am planning to take SDLC 111 next semester and it is going to be interesting to actually think about my goals again. I think my biggest goal is to actually just be more clear in my goals. I think both Emily and I are very capable. I just think we need to direct our energy to the same place and be very clear at the beginning of the semester what the place is, and I think because so much time passed at the beginning of this semester before I actually got my language partner, I lost sight of some of my goals and it just got confusing. So next semester I will make sure it is different!
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