For my learning activity I decided to teach a friend how to make their family tree in Korean. Korean offers a wider variety of familial terms than English. For example, there are terms to differentiate the age or "ranking" of uncles within your family, different terms for mother's side of the family than father's and so on.
To teach this activity I first showed my friend my family tree and went through the different terminology and then I had them make their own family tree, first in English. Once the tree was set up, we worked on translating the different titles so they could better connect the concepts. After, they were done making the family tree, I used it to quiz them and see how many terms they retained. For example, "what would you call your uncle bob?" and so on.
Within the moment, it seemed like my friend was grasping the activity well and could piece together answers while I was quizzing them. However, I'm not sure I could say they retained the knowledge. If you don't have much interest in a language or you won't ever use it, it really becomes an "in one ear, out the other" type of situation. If anything, the activity was most useful for me because I had to be able to answer my friends questions and compile the information beforehand.
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