Update and Plans for the Rest of the Semester

[Brian Mahoney]

I've been getting much better at listening comprehension over the past few weeks. I still struggle a lot with it, but I am much more able to follow conversations and things I hear. I think this is going to continue to be an area of focus for a while. I've made more progress than I expected to so I am encouraged to keep working on it more since it is so important. In addition to my cultural project, I have plans to complete at least two more artifacts in the next few weeks. I am currently writing a thank you letter in Farsi to a couple who were born and raised in Iran who came to my house over spring break to talk to me about Iran. Once I finish it I'm going to have Mona look it over then I'll post a copy of it and send it. I also printed out a transcript of Pres. Obama's Noruz message to Iran that I'm going to translate. I've heard the speech in English so I know generally what he said, but I'm going to try to translate it without listening to or reading the English version again.