week 2- 9/14/09

[Stallone Mannan]

In addition to completing all assigned tasks in Blackboard (2 hours), this past week I have also continued to work on learning the alphabet and numbers (2 hours). I have also perused through some online resources on Diigo concerning Farsi and Iranian culture, and bookmarked a few things myself (2 hours). I examined some of the resources in the language studio and decided against purchasing a grammar-based Farsi book(1.5 hours). I thought this would be too complex to learn as an autonomous beginner learner. I want to focus on speaking and understanding spoken Farsi anyway, so I researched some resources on Amazon.com (1 hour). I discovered an audio CD as well as a phrasebook which I plan on using to help me learn Farsi. I spent two hours with Mona going over the rest of the alphabet, and my plan for this week is to continue to practice the alphabet, learn some common phrases, and explore my newly obtained resouces.