Looking back on what I have been able to do these past few weeks, I am definitely happy with my progress. However, having spent the majority of my time these last few weeks working on writing lengthy sentences and short paragraphs, I felt that I focused too much on writing. Undoubtedly, I had neglected some time that could have been spent working on my reading / listening comprehension and pronunciation; which are aspects of my language learning that I also wanted to focus on.
As a result, I attempted to spend more time on my comprehension and pronunciation during weeks nine and ten. My language partner suggested I watch some videos of people speaking Dari (e.g., news, television shows). Likewise, while watching the videos, she insisted that I also try to listen closely to how the people spoke and took a moment to understand what was being said. This task was a little difficult as my vocabulary was not wide enough to understand everything being said. Nevertheless, I was able to grasp enough pieces of information from what I heard to get close enough to being able to provide a brief analysis of what was being said. My language partner was also very helpful in assisting me along the way during moments in which I struggled with understanding somethings that were being said.
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