I forgot to do these learning posts throughout the semester, so I am going to do one each week from now until the end of the course.
This past week I have been continuing to work on basic verb conjugations, especially in simple present tense. Atul and I also started talking about how to describe things in Hindi. So far I have learning about colors and names for rooms of the house.
Although it isn’t in my official learning plan, I think a useful language task would be to describe items, and specifically describe my house in the U.S. Atul and I were discussing how houses (and even the concepts of houses, privacy, and open space like I have in my American suburb) are so different from what an Indian might think of. Thus, being able to describe where I come from once I move to India will be a very interesting conversation starter.
I was listening to Mango lessons, but after a while I got frustrated at the slow progress and stopped. However, I know that slow progress is better than no progress, so I plan to restart that this week. It is also a little frustrating that the lessons do not match up with what I am learning otherwise, but I think at this point, the more comprehensible input I can consume, the better off I’ll be in the future.
This coming week I have the following goals:
· memorize the colors in Hindi
· memorize the directional prepositional words
· complete lessons 7-10 of Mango Hindi
· learn 10 more verbs
· continue to practice verb conjugations in present and present continuous tenses
· start to formulate sentences to describe my house, including describing colors and size of rooms, and placement of items in relation to other items. Ideally, I would like to be able to say something like “My bedroom is upstairs. It is big. It is yellow. My bed is behind the door. My dresser is beyond the bed. My bookshelf is above the dresser.”
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