Persian

Persian is fun but writing is still difficult and I'm still trying to get used to the writing. I'm also still trying to learn the alphabet. Not just the initial letters but all the forms of the letters. It's going to take some time.

The book that I have makes it a little difficult to pronounce correctly because there are letters that I don't need when I'm pronouncing the words.

The grammar isn't that bad but it can be confusing.



I wish I could spend more time on Persian.

Russian: reading/writing/listening....

So I've been reading Russian out loud way more lately. I've been having some help from a new friend and I'm making some improvements. But I'm still having a difficult time with pronouncing big words and my mouth gets tired. On top of that, I run out of air so I have to pace myself when reading Russian.

Writing texts on my own in Russian is a little difficult so I figure that I'll try to use the vocabulary that I'm learning so it'll help reinforce what I'm learning. Plus, I get to go back and use words that I've forgotten. 
 - I can't wait to stop using the vocabulary from live mocha. I really want to get the vocabulary from one of my Russian books. Then maybe I'll get past the A2 level faster because I can listen to the vocabulary and dialogs.

Listening to a native Russian speaker is fun unless they have a heavy accent then I can't understand anything at all. When I listen to any native speaker, they have to speak slowly most of the time. I really hope I can get rid of that by the end of the academic year.

Russian grammar....

So a native Russian speaker suggested to me that I should focus on one or two cases in grammar.
Well since I'm somewhat familiar with the Accusative Case and Prepositional Case, I'll work on the Genitive Case and Instrumental Case. Then I'll work on the Dative Case.

two years

So it's been two years (since November) studying Russian and I'm glad that I've
been getting better at it but I'm still bad at the language.

I really want to be at the intermediate level so much. Studying the vocabulary and then
remembering the words is very tough. Then the case system for grammar is even more
difficult.

But things have gotten better. I met someone to help me with speaking and conversational
skills for Russian. It's great because every week I get to practice with her, reading from a book
and talking in Russian. She's a very nice woman.

I did talk with another woman with a heavy Russian accent and it was very difficult to understand
what she was saying. I had to ask her to repeat what she was saying repeatedly.


But maybe I can reach close to the intermediate level.



On another note, I've started to study Persian Farsi again. Hopefully, I can pick up on this
language too. I think that the writing is the toughest part.


Anyways, I'm going back to studying Russian!!! Then maybe Persian Farsi.