Session Activity- Talk in a group with another french speaker
Item Produced- Follow-up data on pronunciation
Summary- This meeting was out of the regular lessons as another speaker joined us for conversation. I asked both for help repeating words to aid with orthography corrections. In all it was a pleasant evening, and I believe both speaker and guest enjoyed their time.
Linguistic Effective- Composing the list of known consonants, in order to make a list of unknown consonants and words in which the unknown appear greatly streamlined this process. Would highly recommend filling in the word charts
Linguistic Ineffective- Having two speakers, one entirely new to the established interview milleau, was difficult to make forward motion within the activity.
Linguistic Provisional Improvements- Stress the importance of following the steps in the orthography process
Cultural Effective- It was very cool to see my speaker interact with another fluent speaker.
Cultural Ineffective- I do not know if my speaker welcomed the opportunity as much as I did- it seemed like he felt the other speaker to be intrusive on our learning time
Cultural Provisional Improvements- maybe I should ask the speaker less definitely before inviting the guest
Tomorrow- Nail down orthography and begin transcribing into a database
Further Comments- Although my speaker was hesitant, the guest was quite eager. In fact, the guest called me back to ask to attend the next session. I am in a strange situation where I do not know if the speaker would enjoy a constant third person. I also do not know how to tell the third that they may not always be welcomed though they were welcomed this time
