Week 12 Journal #10

[Tana Kuptanon]

• Reflect on your experiences of (trying to) read and write in your target language.   
• Trying to read Hebrew so far has been easier than writing. I can read Hebrew but I won't know what it means, especially in classical Hebrew, aided with nikkud, then reading Hebrew and pronouncing them out loud is easier than comprehensions them. I am able to recall hebrew vocabulary much easier when I see them. If I see the same words on Duolingo or Mango, then I am able to read and correctly pronounce them and know their definition and what the cause/senescence means but if I were to try to write it again by myself I won't be able to do it, even with bits and pieces as hints. I think the reason is because there are many similar sounds in the aleph-bets and I am not  at the point where I have a strong enough foundation to be able to tell which letter I use for this type of word. Another small reason is also because I don't practice enough the words. I can incorporate the words I used in my daily life much more but I only review and go over hebrew about twice a week. Frankly, sometimes that number goes down to one when I am swamp with other work. Lately I been keeping up with Hebrew/Israeli culture because of the holidays that are happening. Rosh Hasanah (Jewish Holiday) and Sukkot was some major holidays that just happened. I am more motivated to study Hebrew when I learn about the culture in addition to learning the langauge opposed to just learning about the language. 
• In class I tried teaching my classmate how to read a basic word, shalom,
  
• I think I have a good grasp of where to start for basic to teach someone hebrew. I told them that hebrew was read from right to left. There are 26 basic alphabet called alephbet and there are vowels called nikkud. It is easier for beginners to read with nikkuds showing because we do not know the rules of what or how to pronounce with different alephbet. we quickly went over the 26 alphabets then I walked them through on how 

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