Week Four Objectives and Reflections

[Becky Walker]

110 Farsi Week Four Objectives.docxWeek four was ambitious. I ended up focusing more on learning different verbs and building my noun/verb vocabulary instead of collecting a foundation for adjectives. I found it frustrating to be able to understand questions asked in drill class, and not be able to respond to them simply because I didn't know verbs. Thus, I changed my learning plan mid-week, or rather I enhanced it (as I ended up learning more).My workbook, Modern Persian, arrived this week, and has been a great help. I really like the lay-out of the book as it combines grammar with vocabulary. It also has an audio section, which will be a great help as the book includes many of the scripts that they read.I am continually finding similarities to the aspects of Arabic that I found easy, and thankfully, the parts that I struggled with don't exist in Farsi which is extremely reassuring. I am also finding it quite easy to relate this language to Spanish--a foreign language I am comfortable with--as without having to dedicate too much time on the script I can implement many of the same methods from Spanish to Farsi.