#studying persian

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Day 1: Persian Studying

Listening

Manoto Episode: 1 hr. understood bits, got the vague overall gist especially when I was looking at the video and not just listening. The stories I was able to follow the easiest were the dog at the hospital and the vegan ‘cooks’! 

Reading 

Advanced Farsi Reading: 30 mins. A single paragraph lol. That I reread like 4 times after translating it. Okay, so this book is way above my level BUT it is made for students and I like that it has very short paragraphs, word banks, and exercises. 

Studying 

Mango languages: ~20mins. Learned and revised some prepositions and furniture vocab.  Easy Persian L32: 20-30 mins. Learned how to use “for x amnt of time” with the present perfect. Did the practice set. 

This post is inspired by this amazing Korean langblr that I follow @itslostfocus  . When I read the post I felt the same way: I’ve definitely been inconsistent and have plateaued to a point where I start to regress and have to re-learn.  My plan is to post what I did to immerse myself/learn and to really focus on Farsi for 6 months. It’ll be nice to look back on these posts to track my progress. I’ll still be working on Korean, Portuguese, French, and Spanish but much less intensely. I hope this post inspires you to start your own or gives you ideas for resources to use or organizing your own studies. Thank you for reading:) 

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Day 14: Learning Persian

Listening

ManotoPlus: 44mins. Understood some of the bit about the athletic trainer for one of the superbowl teams. I think she is one of the first women in that position. And she is Iranian I think.

Studying

EasyPersian: 20mins. Did drills from the week to review structures.

Notebook: 15mins. Jotted down some notes from session to add to my weekly review in my notebook.

Anki: 30mins. Reviewed my week1 deck. Finished my week2 deck.

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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.

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Day 18: Learning Persian

Writing

Assignment: 15-20mins. I listened to the rest of the audio/video clips my tutor sent and summarized them in a couple of sentences.

Speaking

Assignment: 10-20mins. I wrote down a script (in English) detailing my daily routine and then recorded it in Farsi. It went much more smoothly than my past speaking assignment. Part of it is because with the daily routine, after you get past the first steps, the rest of the steps follow similar grammatical structures.

Studying

Mango languages: 20 mins. Learned to say "I prefer" (ترجیح دادن)... and that verbs following this structure are in subjuntive.

EasyPersianL44: 25 mins. Began the past perfect tense. Did the drills.

Anki: 15mins. Reviewed week2 deck. I really am getting more familiar with these words. I don't think they will pop into my head easily when speaking/writing though. I will need to review them for more than a week and probably practice using them too.