Language Progress and Maintenance Week 9
03/22/21//03/28/21
French: I got a new client on my caseload who speaks exclusively French. I'm not gonna lie, the parent education piece was rough at some moments. Playing with the child was mostly fine, though, except when I mixed up what a cow sounds like and used the English sound. I've mentioned this before, but I have a hard time expressing myself in English when it comes to this so in French so it just added a layer of uncertainty. I guess it'll be a treacherous and long learning curve. I kind of feel like a fraud though. Do I really speak French or am I just a faker... I also pretended I couldn't speak English and spoke French to some Mormons yesterday at the park who came up to me so they would leave me alone. I just wanted to enjoy my book in peace!! They still tried to push a little but at least it wasn't preaching, just asking about what I spoke. I think they were especially confused because I was speaking French but was holding my Persian book in my hand and probably couldn't quite figure out what I was speaking. Spanish:I only spoke a little bit of Spanish with one of my clients this week to explain something that I probably should have just explained in English. Same with French, sometimes I wonder if I am actually deserving of saying I can speak Spanish. Portuguese: Just duolingo and my Netflix show this week. I actually stuck to my schedule and did the full 30 minutes twice this week. Korean: Duolingo and I watched The Inheritors. Americans are portrayed really horribly in the show. But I guess it's only fair, Americans fill their shows/movies with caricatures and stereotypes as well. I'm honestly surprised at how much more I can understand without help of subtitles. It's really not that much but I have this sense that it's more than it's ever been. Which is a pleasant surprise considering how passively I've been "learning". Persian: I mentioned this in my other post, but I've felt a slow down and decrease in concentration. I'm using Persian more often but I'm not learning anything new or pushing myself to use more than the current amount.
