SDLP 110: Learning Journal 8

[Constantinos Beauclair-Kolomtsas]

My goals for this week were to begin conceptualizing my cultural project, continue watching Ezel (the Turkish soap-opera), and try to incorporate my imaginary travelling task more into my learning curriculum. The project conceptualization is going well and I have decided to focus on how Greek and Turkish languages have influenced namesakes of towns and the people living within them. Meanwhile, the show Ezel has me cringing at times by its over-dramatic and corny nature but nevertheless I am starting to pick-up words said by the actors as well as the proper pronunciation of  certain words. Finally, I decided to incorporate my imaginary traveller task of writing down conversations while visiting different cities into more of a research for my project. As I stated in the previous Journal Entry the task is mundane since I do not have a diverse enough vocabulary yet, but it does help me with researching different places I could present for my project and so I will continue performing the learning task for  the goal of completing my project.