This past week I didn't get nearly as much done as I wanted to. I barely reviewd any vocabulary or practiced any reading. I was still able to listen to podcasts in Farsi though which was helpful. I'm starting to be able to distinguish between words in sentences and pick up on changes in topic during the podcasts.
Maroof and I worked on telling time and recognizing numbers 1-20 in our sessions this week. I learned from him that eventhough numbers in Farsi are written differently, they still use roman numbers on digital watches. They also operate on a 12 hour clock like we do.
The reading for this week was hard to get through. For some reason it didn't really interest me overall. There were a few sections that I did find informative though. First, I thought it was interesting that reading does not necessarily translate to good spelling. This was interesting because I had always heard that the more you read the better at spelling you are. Second, I learned that 84% of words in the English language are formed according to a regular pattern but th 400 irregularly spelled words are also the most commonly used in the english language. The reason for this is that some words are spelled according to their origin, meaning that they have letters in them that do not really fit with how they look like they should be spelled. The reading also reminded me of an activity we did in my world history class in middle school. When learning about the Greeks, we wrote stories from the bottom of the page up to the top zig zagging accross the paper in boustrophedon form.
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