SDLC 105 Reflection Paper #1

[Anirudh Viswanathan]

As a speaker of Tamil, English and basic Spanish, the thing I enjoy most about learning a language is being able to playfully banter with another speaker. I feel like once you have reached that point in language learning, you are fluent. That is where I want to be when speaking Hindi. Expressions are the hardest thing to master in a language, in my opinion. I disliked learning long lists of vocabulary words in Spanish. While this is necessary to learning a language, I felt it was tedious. However, I am a reading/writing type of learner, so vocabulary words are one type of way that I learn well. By writing things down and memorizing them, I learn much easier. I want to expand my learning skills with my speaking partner by being able to hold good conversations and understanding expressions and language concepts through dictation and talking.