Semester Reflection

[David R. Stevens]

The following was my Learning Plan

1. Enrich vocabulary
2. work on pronunciation
3. work on reading without vowels
4. work on speaking with Emily
5. learn to construct correct sentences
6. work on spelling and texting

  

 To do this we will:

     Read short stories (once Emily can find a couple online)

     Watch youtube videos in Hebrew about something

     Work through my workbook

    

Lessons will be:  15 minutes of talking in Hebrew about:  our day, school, life, the weekend, and trying to incorporate words that we are learning in the workbook and the short stories.

     Reflection:  I believe that this semester was 100% successful.  Emily and I know each other, we are friends now and we can understand each other.  I had difficulties with Emily's method of speaking Hebrew, she was a little fast and would stop me in mid-sentence to correct me if I used improper grammar.   I found this initially very irritating because i would then lose my train of thought.  However, this really helped me because I am making much less mistakes in the present tense.  In the past tense I am still making some mix ups, but also the words begin are jumble a bit.  The past tense begins to have lots of consonants, which make it very difficult to speak.   

    I over the semester my reading has truly improved.   I have been steadily working through my workbook and I can usually understand every prompt and work through it.  However, reading through the story at the end of my Final showed me how much I had truly learned this semester.  I was able to slowly make my way through the long paragraph and understand most of the sentences.  I had difficulty with some of the questions because there were a few sentences that didn't make full sense because I didn't know three or four words in a row so I would lose the meaning behind the sentence but I knew the overall gist of the paragraph.   

   i still struggle with listening and comprehending.  That will come with more time listening to Hebrew and more speaking.  I will most definitely get better at that while abroad, because everyone will be speaking Hebrew around me and I want to be able to understand them.  

    My typing skills have most definitely improved this semester, I can type on my personal laptop without the onscreen Hebrew keyboard.  I know relatively where every letter is located on the keyboard to type words.  I am still much slower typing Hebrew than English, but that will come with time :)