Here is a recording of me saying the family vocabulary in which I learned.
My family, Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, Me, Older (M), and Older (F)
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A) My evaluation of my first artifact conversation is one of success! I was very pleased with my pronunciation and with my confidence in speaking. I felt comfortable introducing myself and saying where I am from. I feel as if I would be able to understand this in a conversation with someone in Israel as well which makes me very excited. I think I need to keep practicing without the words in front of me so that it becomes more natural and smoother off of my tongue. All in all, I was very pleased with artifact one.
B) I am also pleased with my progress on my learning goals for weeks 4 and 5. I have learned the vocabulary for my family from my language partner and have decided to use this for another artifact. Because family is so important to me, I thought it would be valuable for me to know these words. I can remember learning these words in Hebrew school growing up and it was a nice feeling being able to remember them after such a long time. I would say that I successfully met my learning goals of learning greetings and vocabulary about my family.
I have not found much enjoyment out of speaking Hebrew yet, because it is not what we have been practicing a lot, rather we have been doing more reading and writing. I think I find reading the easiest because I can recognize letters and words really easily, but hearing the sounds of a word to write them down is more frustrating to me because there are several sounds that resemble each other. For example there is more than one “t” sound, so it makes it challenging to know which one to use.
We recently learned the vocabulary for question words. I have seen some of the words like “who” and “what” in our text already so it was a bit easier.
I continue to use flashcards and byki to help me master my words. I would like to say I have really mastered more words than I have, but I continue to work at a slow, steady pace and am readjusting my expectations
Here is a recording of my doing greetings, introductions, and describing where I am from.
Shalom (Hello)
Ani Gabbie (I am Gabbie)
Ani mi New Hampshire (I am from New Hampshire)
A recording of me introducing myself
I think my pronunciation in my first artifact was fairly good. It was a little bit awkward recording myself, but I think I said the greetings correctly. I would be able to use these greetings in conversation and understand what someone was saying if they were told to me.
This week we learned the vocabulary for family, which I plan to use to construct a family tree for my second artifact. We also learned a little bit about prepositions so we can talk about family in reference to someone such as “my sister” or “his brother.” Since learning family vocabulary was one of my learning goals, I feel very pleased that Emily was able to teach us that this week.
