Week One: Progress

[Becky Walker]

Mission accomplished, I set goals for the month of January, and as the end of the month is approaching, I am nearing completion. I decided, that though writing was not going to be a main focus, that it would be best if I learned the Farsi script and numbers before attempting to learn words and phrases. For some reason, reading them is still more difficult than writing them, but I do still have a few days left in the month to practice reading them.The next section of farsi that I will be attempting is learning a variety of greetings (and responses) and which greeting belongs in which situation. I had my first drill class today, and am already realizing that the words I am learning are the formal/polite forms of the greetings. Though theses are certainly necessary, my goal is to practice the greetings that I will use most often, not necessarily the ones reserved for the elders.As of now, I am preferring the BYKI flashcards to the Rosetta stone, because I am finding it far too easy to cheat using the Rosetta Stone. Whereas in the BYKI model I am not associating pictures with sounds, but reading the letters in the words. I'll continue to look through the sites posted on our group page to see if there are any other interesting and useful sights for learning the basics.For now, ba'adan mibinamet.