The Feels

Session Activity- Go though emotions
 
Item Produced- List of emotion words, GREAT definition of anxiety
 
Summary-  I had just experienced and breakup, and decided to ask for words for my feelings. Overall, this was a good session because my speaker empathizes and recognizes my mood, and still stayed on track with our research
 
Linguistic Effective- We started with simple feelings, and then moved into those which were harder to describe. In this case having three people was helpful to diffuse the emotional overtones, and also double-check that the expression fully expressed the emotion we were all empathizing with
 
Linguistic Ineffective- I think this went as well as t could. Although I am still having issues understanding/ translating to writing what my speaker is saying
 
Linguistic Provisional Improvements- We need to address listening issues
 
Cultural Effective- On understanding my speaker, it was not very effective, but my speaker did get to know me better, which helps our understanding in general. Also, the definition for some of the emotions were very insightful on how emotions are handled culturally, and withing my speakers experience.
 
Cultural Ineffective- None
 
Cultural Provisional Improvements-  None
 
Tomorrow- Get over it.
 
Further Comments-

Triple Loving Consonants

Duration- 1:07:46

Session Activity- get words for love, light conversation to catch up with speaker's life

Item Produced- scale of love to hate vocabulary, carpentry vocabulary and knowledge

Summary-   lively talk about love, carpentry, and work


Linguistic Effective- Asking questions about hate made it easier for my reserved speaker to talk about the sensitive topic of love.

Linguistic Ineffective- After the long break, it was very difficult to understand my speaker's words. Breaks in our once a week cycle make me very rusty

Linguistic Provisional Improvements- add in the importance of covering hate

Cultural Effective- hearing his answers were valuable on two different levels. First, I was able to grasp his scale of affection from love to hate. Second, the manner in which he answered (reserved, and only divulging information after pregnant pauses) gave me a lot of insight into the mental workings of my speaker, and his preferred communication style

Cultural Ineffective- Nothing of note

Cultural Provisional Improvements-  changing seating position has impacted the content and style of our lessons. Activities have become more relaxed and the speaker is answering more candidly

Tomorrow- I want to try to bring up a conversation directly related to one of the vocabulary banks

Further Comments- It seems like I have a guilt for not having all of the orthography and data basing completed. It bothers me because I feel like it is difficult to move on without these steps. I am also feeling like my speaker is frustrated as we learn a lot of words one time, but they are never implemented in later lessons