With the semester winding down, I wanted to ensure that I had maintained a balanced approach with my language learning that I had hoped for at the beginning of the semester. This semester, I wanted to be able to improve as many aspects of my Urdu knowledge as possible. Personally, I wanted to improve my writing, reading and listening comprehension, pronunciation and speaking skills. I truly felt I was able to hit upon all of the areas I had hoped to improve on. That said, in the final weeks I wanted to improve in an area where I felt I still needed some more work - speaking and listening comprehension.
My language partner and I decided it would be best to build upon the activities that I had done during weeks ten to twelve weeks ; however, this time they would be much more intensive. I wanted to immerse myself in the language by replacing most of the media that I typically watch in English with an Urdu counterpoint. For instance, I would watch the news, television shows and Of course, I did not always know what was being said, but I realized that the more time I spent watching thing in Urdu the easier it was for me to gauge what was being said and link it back to what previous knowledge of the language I had. Weeks twelve and thirteen were definitely an increase in difficulty over what I had done in weeks nine and ten and I was often frustrated when I would come across a news segment or part of a show that was too complex for me to understand. Despite that, the experience was truly worthwhile and fantastic.
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