My Weeks Activities posts and our cultural presentation are on Heather's blog because we've been learning together and doing the same work at the same time with the same tutor. I've copied the weeks activities here, but I have not copied our cultural presentation.
Week 4 activities
Heather and I:
- met with Aarti and learned more structured sentences and conjugating certain useful verbs such as "I am" "she is", "they come."
- read a short autobiography of a woman from India involving cultural and life differences
- continued to practice our greetings and phrases outside of class time
Week 3 activities
Heather and I:
- Met Aarti for 2 hours and discussed greetings (both with and without respect), practiced forming sentences with words we knew, and learned vocabulary relating to family.
- Practiced certain phrases by saying them to our friends and each other (for example - "Neevu channda adeeree" - "You are beautiful.") until they felt natural to say.
- Learned about differences between individualistic and communal cultures, and how such practices as greeting with warmth and initiating conversations would be different in India than in America.
- Finished the first section of our learning plan.
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