I feel like a first grader again. My handwriting is bad, I can't tell time, and I am still learning the days of the week. Basic addition and subtraction is a chore and numbers just don't make sense. On the plus side we seemed to have skipped over kindergarten stuff and are pushing right along to second grade level Pashto; grammar and vocabulary. The basic sentences are starting too.
Today we tried to teach our instructor the difference between hail, hill, heel, and hell. Because he's Pashto he can't hear the difference in the words (just like I can't hear the difference on some of the unknown Pashto sounds they have). Since we were learning the word "hill" in Pashto we heard this all day (forgive my language), "what the hell" when he wanted us to say the Pashto word.
One thing I have noticed is that Pashto burns up all my creative energy (hence no posts in a week). Apparently trying to form sentences in Pashto uses up the same side of the brain as trying to put together English ones. And according to Joy I am sleep talking in Pashto now. That's how you know it's started.
Today we tried to teach our instructor the difference between hail, hill, heel, and hell. Because he's Pashto he can't hear the difference in the words (just like I can't hear the difference on some of the unknown Pashto sounds they have). Since we were learning the word "hill" in Pashto we heard this all day (forgive my language), "what the hell" when he wanted us to say the Pashto word.
One thing I have noticed is that Pashto burns up all my creative energy (hence no posts in a week). Apparently trying to form sentences in Pashto uses up the same side of the brain as trying to put together English ones. And according to Joy I am sleep talking in Pashto now. That's how you know it's started.
needing some second grade progress reports
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