Week 2 Reflections

[Brian Mahoney]

I spent most of this week reviewing things that I have already learned in Farsi, but haven't looked at in a while. The most important things that I have been freshening up on are personal pronouns, possessive suffixes and conjugation in simple past tense. I have done a lot of writing simple sentences to practice these as well as getting used to sentence structure and syntax. As far as vocabulary goes, I've focused on re-learning colors, numbers and words for people and family members. I'm already familiar with a lot of common sayings and greetings, so I have been focusing on listening to them and trying to improve my pronunciation of them.Most of what I've learned so far has been from Easypersian.com. I think they do a really good job of introducing the language to someone who has no experience with it. They do a relatively good job with grammar and language basics, but a lot of the information is not as useful as it would otherwise be because it is not that well organized once you get past the earliest lessons. I have also been using Byki a lot. I had already learned most of the vocabulary and sayings they have, but it has proven especially useful in working on speaking and pronunciation. I have ordered a textbook from Amazon, but it hasn't arrived yet so I'm looking forward to getting that, which I think will help in a lot of ways.