Week 4!!

Weeeeek 4!!

Featuring Mahmood.

Inuyasha

*We sing-along to one of his songs and a Mulan song in Dutch below as a fun final mini-challege.

This final week Neha and I made incredible breakthroughs. Though we had some good vocabulary lists, contextualizing them with grammar was proving very difficult through the week, as we were trying to use the vocabulary without having a good enough grasp of general grammar. Though we had looked into grammar, especially present tense for Italian and taken note of it we were having trouble internalizing it. At the same time, we had struggled to find a comprehensive put-together report of Dutch grammar online.

This week we met and got together in person as well. We began physically writing down conjugations and began to internalize so much better due to this. At the same time, as opposed to websites, YouTube videos were an amazing source and taught us the general information we had been looking for in a concise manner. Due to these videos we were able to take note of the equivalents of imperfect and passe compose (French) in Dutch and Italian, as well as learn some things about the future tense in Italian. Meanwhile we learned about how to declinate our describers in Italian based on gender/plurality.

This meant that we were able to begin piecing together vocabulary finally in a way that created the more complex phrases we had been hoping to make. We made progress on Italian and still want to work on Dutch as it has been more difficult for us.

Week 3: Learning & Goal Setting

 

End of week zoom in order to plan our week forward for the 4th week.

Neha was having her WiFi fixed for the week, so we were not able to meet and practice speaking in the way we had planned to the earlier week. Therefore, separately it was up to us to work on the new vocabulary we had accumulated in the past week.

So, I reviewed our big list of vocabulary and some of the sentence structure we have been putting together, finding that some of the vocabulary was easier to learn as it was so similar to words I knew in other languages. At the end of the week, Neha and I then met in order to have good set goals for next week, as it is our last week. We decided we would want to become highly proficient in the areas of vocab. study we have already outlined, but also learn many more verbs than we do as of now, in order to practice grammar.

We are not sure how much we will be able to meet the last week as we both have AP's, but I will attempt to send her a song in Italian and Dutch that we can each learn. At the same time I hope we can record some conversation of what we have learned and improved upon since week 1.

I am excited to continue and to settle any points of confusion we have along the way. Hopefully we can research some of the culture as well and have some final project that integrates it.