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Session Activity- Go through kinship list, Swadesh Vocab, Greeting Phrases
Item Produced- Greeting Phrases, Kinship list, Geneology information
Linguistic Effective- Greeting phrases effortlessly merged into use. The kinship chart did work
Linguistic Ineffective- I did not take my own advice and copy a version of the chart in my notes before starting. The result was the chart was very hard to follow.
Linguistic Provisional Improvements- Write charts in notebook before going to the session.
Cultural Effective- the chart made it easy to ask sticky questions. A "how do you say," is very easily turned into a "Who is your".
Cultural Ineffective- my speaker isn't too keen on talking about the family tree.
Cultural Provisional Improvements- try and work in more family questions.
Tomorrow- We seemed to be done with most of the noun vocabulary for now, start moving to modifiers and verb vocab.
Further Comments- I didn’t realize this while writing but the speaker seems more attached to using the book than I am. I am not sure why the speaker is hesitant about cultural family tree questions- is it a personal hesitance, wrong approach, or a disinterest in the process. The speaker seems to be able to get into the french roll faster than when we first began these lessons. I think he enjoys speaking, and is frustrated by the slowness of the process.
