#fluency challenge

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Writing Practice

Here is a paragraph I wrote this back in early March as part of an assignment from my tutor! We went over it together, and the pink is all of the corrections.

ورزش ها در آمریکا خیلی مهم هستند. همه دبیرستان های آمریکایی برنامه ورزش بعد از مدرسه دارند که برای دانش آموزان رایگان است اما گران است برای دبیرستان گرونه. دبیرستان ها پول زیادی برای آن برنامه خرج می کنند. معمولا ، برای برنامه ورزش از برنامه های دیگه(مثل هنر و حتی برنامه های دانشگاهی) زیادتر خرج می کنند. بچه هایی که می توانند خیلی خوب ورزش کنند معمولا برای رفتن به دانشگاه پول میگیرند.

در فرانسه، ورزش مهم است ولی نه مثل در آمریکا . در فرانسه، مردم برای سلامتی و خوشحالی/سرگرمی ورزش می کنند. در آمریکا ورزش مثل دین است. در فرانسه، برنامه بعد از مدرسه وجود ندارد. اگر بخواهی ورزش کنی، باید به کلاس مستقل/جدا بروی. بستگی به چه ورزشی انتخاب کنی ولی می تواند گران باشه. مثل در آمریکا، می توانی هم برای ورزش کردن به باشگاه یا پارک بروی.

Lesson vocabulary

+Men's sport- (varzeshe mardooneh) ورزش مردونه +Women's sport- (varzeshe zanooneh) ورزش زنونه +Sports and health- (varzesh va salāmati) ورزش و سلامتی +Is exercise important for health?- (āyā varzesh barāye salāmati mohemeh?) آیا ورزش برای سلامتی مهمه؟ +How much do you exercise during the week? - (che ghadr dar tooleh hafteh varzesh mikoni?) چه قدر در طول هفته ورزش می کنی؟ +What sports are you interested in? - (be che varzesh hāyi alāghe dāri?) به چه ورزش هایی علاقه داری؟ +Types of sports- (eno? varzesh hā) انواع ورزش ها +Football- (footbāl) فوتبال +Basketball- (basketbāl) بسکتبال +Valleyball- (vālibāl) والیبال +Badminton- (badminton) بدمینتون +Tennis- (tenis) تنیس +Futsal- (footsāl) فوتسال +Play handball- (handbāl bāzi kardan) هندبال بازی کردن +To play chess- (shatranj bāzi kardan) شطرنج بازی کردن +To swim- (shenā kardan) شنا کردن +Horsebackriding- (asb savāri) اسب سواری +Bodybuilding- (badansāzi) بدنسازی +To do yoga- (yooga kardan) یوگا کردن +Bike riding- (docharkheh savāri) دوچرخه سواری +Weightlifting- (vazneh bardāri) وزنه برداری +Karate- (kārāteh) کاراته +I consider karate a violent sport- (man kārāte ro varzesh khashani mi doonam/mibinam) من کاراته رو ورزش خشنی میدونم \می بینم +Karate is full of power- (karate por az ghodrateh) کاراته پر از قدرته +The most popular sport- (mahboobtarin varzesh) محبوب ترین ورزش +Salon/rec hall/ court- (sālon) محبوب ترین ورزش

Don't hesitate to let me know if there are any typos, anything out of order (sometimes copy paste ruins it) or additional corrections to be made to the paragraph:)

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Day 16: Learning Persian

Listening

ManotoPlus: 50 mins. I felt a little frustrated because I feel like I'm plateauing in my ability to understand. Also I really wanted to know about their tips for sleeping better at night (and felt bad for the lady trying to do guided mediation with horrible feedback and a weird screechy alarm in the background). They showed a French car (Matra) that I've never heard about before. I'm not too sure the point they were making about it though. Something about a sale?

Reading

Advanced Farsi Reading: 15mins. About half a page (they are very small pages). I'm reading twice in a row because I have to do my assignment tomorrow and I will be writing for that.

Studying

Mango languages: 15 mins. Building on past lessons.

EasyPersianL42: 25 mins. Learned to form questions with the simple future tense . Anki: 15mins. Reviewed my week2 deck. It's got about 50 words/phrases. For those of you familiar with AnkiApp, I'm fluctuating between a D and C lool

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Day 43-45: Learning Persian

Listening

ManotoPlus: ~1.5 hrs. This week has been kind of a mess so I've been putting it on as background noise.

Session: 30mins. My tutor speaks almost exclusively in Persian. She speaks relatively slowly. We also are always talking about the subject that she is present which cues me and lets me fill in the gaps if I need to. I find myself not translating in my head as much before reacting or responding.

Speaking

Assignment: 2mins. I answered a question: who is someone in your life that you know that doesn't hide their emotions?

Session: ~5mins. I know I say this every time but I really do speak a little bit more each time. I had a bit harder time being accurate but I definitely was speaking more and using some compound sentences. My tutor asked if I think in English or Persian before speaking. I realize the truth is I don't think lmao I don't have any thoughts whatsoever. My mind is blank with panic. But, in session I told her that for routine phrases, it's typically in Persian. However, for more complex phrases, I springboard from English but know I have to also adapt my thinking into Persian. I think way more in Persian when I write than when I speak.

Reading

MMPS: 10mins. Read a paragraph. I really enjoy reading; I do have to stop often to translate but I'm much less intimidated by it.

Studying

Mango: 20mins. Learned how to say "to pour" and "oil". EasyPersianL57: 15mins. Did the lesson and the drills. It's basically all been practice for present tense. I'm starting to rethink the frequency at which I do these lessons; I should be applying what I learn for a bit before moving on to learning something else.

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Day 51-54: Learning Persian

Listening

Session: 30mins. I didn't really realize it during session, but my tutor was speaking almost exclusively in Farsi unless she was explaining a concept or translating some vocabulary. Youtube: Day 52 , 53, 54. ~1.5hrs. The longer episodes, I watched mainly as background noise whereas the shorter episodes I can listen more intently. For a long time, I've been wondering how to say "I feel..." and there's a skit in the video on day 54 with a therapist and she corrects the client and says "no no, we say 'I feel'" . However, I still feel like overall I can't really understand more than 10% of a video (with visuals and topic known).

Speaking

Session: 5-10mins. Expanded on a few of my thoughts and answered my tutor as much as I could in Persian.

Writing

Journal: 30mins. Wrote two entries in response to the prompts from my DayOne journal app.

Studying

Mango: 60mins. Did a lesson every single day. Weekly review: 30mins. Re-organized my notes from the session.

Happy (belated) Nowruz to everyone that celebrates it!!

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Language Maintenance and Progress Week 2

02-01-2021 // 02-07-2021 Listening

French: 4+ hours. Listened to my parents and the news they consume. Also watched a few YouTube videos from Dairing Tia, Stelle, and Liv. Spanish: 1hr10mins. So I found Jose M. and Valentrina who discuss pop culture and make social commentary. Valentrina sounds like she has an Argentine accent but I am not 100% sure and I haven't really done any digging on her background. Korean: 1hr12mins. Extracurricular is starting to get interesting. I'm on episode 7. Portuguese: 50mins. I'm still watching The Girls of Ipanema and it's getting intense.  Had to cut a bit of my watching/listening time because I got busy during a few of the days I've allocated to Portuguese. Persian: 4-5 hours.

Reading

French: 30-45min. I squeezed in a bit of time to read Médecin des Voix by Dr. Claude Fugain this weekend. Spanish: 0mins. Yikes lool. Does an instragram post on tips for getting a toddler to speak count? Korean: 25mins. Techincally, I spend about 5 minutes a day on Korean duolingo and I have to read then. Portuguese: 25mins. Similar to Korean, I read on Duolingo.   Persian: ~1hr30mins.

Writing

French: 1hr. Had a stroke of inspiration early in the week and spent a while on it.  Spanish: 0mins. I've been entertaining the idea of staring a weekly or bi-monthly post about a topic in speech pathology that I will write in Spanish and post on here. I'm not sure though. I haven't given it much thought beyond just a vague idealization. I would need to do more research and think about the format.  Korean: 0mins. I write the day of the week in my little journal to keep track of the minutes I spent listening to Korean. Portuguese: 5mins. I wrote little bullets of the plot each time I watched Girls of Ipanema. A lot of it was inspired by Spanish grammar and vocabulary so I'm not sure it's usefully to continue writing in this manner without taking the time to learn actively first. Persian: ~1hr30mins.

Speaking/thinking/studying

French: Daily with my parents. I try to think more and more in French as well. Thinking in French has gotten a bit more automatic, as I mentioned in last week's post. Spanish: 20-30mins. I tutor a high school student once a week for an hour. I don't speak Spanish the whole time, although my goal is to transition to all Spanish. Korean: No speaking. Completed adverbs chapter on Duolingo. Portuguese: Talked to Duolingo every day haha. Completed adjectives chapter. Persian: Mostly during my session. I think I was more comfortable building sentences by myself. I try to recast thoughts in Farsi if I feel like they're simple enough.

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Day 13: Learning Persian

Studying

Notebook Review: 30 mins. Reviewed all the grammar points from the week. This included possessives and the simple future tense (simple verbs, compound verbs, and negation). I will do some drills and go over session notes on Sunday. Anki: 30mins. Reviewed my week1 deck. Created a week2 vocabulary deck with all the vocab from this week that I will start studying on Monday.

[nokhodi]

امروز من با مادرم و خواهرم به فروشگاه رفتم. خواهرم یک لباس سفید خرید. من لباس سبزی خریدم. من هم یک قهوه با شیر خریدم. امروز صبح من و خواهرم خانهٔمان تمیز کردیم. ما هم به خواربار فروشی رفتیم.

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06.06.2021 farsi day 4

سلام به همه 👋 حالت چطوره؟ امروز یک شنبه است. این آخر هفته هیچ چیزی نکردم. الان در خانه هستم. پس فردا (این سه شبه) خواهرم و پدرم و دایی ام به برکلی می روند. در چهارشنبه و جمعه كلاس فارسی دارم.