This past week I had goals of learning a handful a new verbs and listening to Mango lessons 7-10. I did meet with Atul and he started explaining some more verbs to me. Hindi verbs do not always match one-to-one with English, so it is a little more complicated than simply memorizing new words for equivalent meanings. I also listening to Mango lessons 7-10 as planned. They are teaching me more useful language as the lessons get into more conversational skills. I am progressing past having my default conversation as "Namaste, mera naam Kelly. Aap kese hain? Aa mosem bahut achha hai. Namaste." ("Hello, my name is Kelly. How are you? The weather is very nice today. Goodbye.")
I also had a specific goal this week to start to formulate sentences describing the locations of items. With Atul's help, I was able to describe items in my room. I still need lots of practice to be able to use the language competently, but it is nice to be able to form some simple sentences. Hindi syntax is very different from English, so it takes some getting use to (and some deciphering). For example, instead of saying "My book is above the bed." I might say "mera kitaab mera bed se uper hai" which would translate to something like "My book, my bed, in relationship to, above, is."
In this coming week, I have the following goals:
- Complete Mango lessons 11-20
- Start using verbs to describe my daily life and/or what people are doing (present simple and present continuous tenses) For example, "Every day I wake up. I drive to school. I study psychology and languages. I eat --- for lunch. I go to work. I go to sleep." and/or "I am studying now. He is drinking water. Are you drinking water? What are you eating? What are you doing? Why are you doing that?"
- Make a memrise account with vocabulary words
- Evaluate my skills and goals on a competency framework
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