Progress and Learning

I have greatly improved in making conversations in French. I had some experience with learning French (middle school, Duolingo) but we never focused on having conversations. I think these are very important when learning a language because the key point of a language is to speak with others. What surprised me? How easy it felt learning this language. I will have to give credit to my previous knowledge, but out of all the languages I’m learning, French is the easiest in understanding, memorizing, and reading. Some challenges I find when learning French is remembering the accents. In English, we have little to no accents in the words we commonly use everyday. For French, I still struggle with remembering which accents do what, but with the help of my French teacher (and taking time to practice often) I can master these issues quickly.

Project I’m proud of

I’m most proud of my Family Tree project because of the fun I had working on it. I made a PowerPoint along with a model, made with branches and paper cranes. I have the most fun with projects that include making art, so having this project assigned made me excited to show my skills to the class. Also, I was not stressed at all while working on this project, because I was never procrastinating and finished my work before it was due. Some core competencies I showed was communication and creative thinking. I told Ms. Toure about my plan, and she confirmed it before I started working. I showed my creative thinking when I had to come up with descriptions for each family member, to give them something unique to each individual. An example was Grandma’s cat dying, because the family was too peaceful. Another thing I liked about my project was the different origami sheets I used for each individual. They would differ in color, size, and even texture. If I had to do something differently, I would memorize each description when presenting it, just to improve my French skills.