Learn Kurmanji

 This week I started on the working outline for the mini documentary about Rojava and I started to really narrow down what things I want to speak about. The mini documentary will serve as an introduction to the region and to the development of the political system there. I want the viewer to end the video feeling like they learned something and interested in learning more. I feel pretty confident about my abilities to speak on this system and it's ideological basis. I have read a few books about it and have spoken with people participating within it. I also found a few good youtube videos which I can get clips for the video from. Unfortunately I don't think I'll have the time to fly out to North East Syria and capture any original footage for this project so I'll mostly be relying on whatever videos I can find online. I think I'm about 80% complete with this project. Next week I want to have my script mostly written out and I will get a workflow for making the mini

 I spent this week completing chapter 9 and 10 as well as the anki sections I had chosen for my April 1 Deliverable. Chapter 9 was all about creating passive sentences which was a useful thing to learn. This week I decided to print out the notes for chapter 9 because they were mostly just tables of verb endings which and it made more sense to just have a copy of what the book has. Chapter 10 didn't have any exercises associated with it because it was mostly just a recap of everything else which was previously covered in the book. The poem/ short story is about a man who has returned home to Kurdistan after living in Europe. I think I will print out this poem and staple it into my notebook or I might print it out and just keep it in my folder with my other exercises. I think after this week I'm about 75% of the way to completing the project and I feel pretty excited about really using the language. Next week I will complete my outline for the minidocumentary about the Rojava (No

Sorry to all the Learn Kurmanji fans out there this post is late because I was doing a college visit yesterday.  This week I took notes for Lesson 8 and completed the exercises. Lesson 8 consisted of Present Perfect Tense and Pluperfect in the transitive and intransitive. In Kurdish both of these grammar concepts operate similarly to their English counterparts. The formation of these tenses is very similar to the past with transitive verbs still changing the subject to the oblique and agreeing with the object in the sentence as well as both intransitive and transitive verbs using the past tense verb stem. The only major difference is that in Kurmanji the Present Perfect Tense is also used for narration and hearsay. I also continued to expand my anki Kurmanji vocabulary deck. Right now I'm starting to read Lesson 9 and I'm planning out which other grammar anki decks I want to do and on which days this week. Next week I plan on finishing lessons 9 & 10 along with anything I n

 Progress continues to be slow this week and I did not completed most of the things I set out to do this week. This week I continued to add cards to my Kurmanji vocab anki deck. I am still on track to completing my goals so long as I pick up the pace next week which I know I will have the time for because the projects for other classes I've been working on this week will be done then. This week I continued to read through chapter 8 and 9 but still haven't started any of the exercises for them yet. Next week I'll keep adding vocab and grammar cards to my anki decks. I might also hop on a call with a few native speakers and help them practice their English and they can help me practice my Kurmanji. I'm about 55% complete with this project.  Vocab Progress

I was slow to work on my project this week and I didn't get as much done as I had hoped. I read through the next lesson of the Kurmanji Kurdish for the Beginners book which covers how to conjugate verbs in the past and present perfect but I didn't take any notes or start the exercises for Lesson 8. I did however continue to expand my vocabulary by adding more words to my anki vocabulary deck. Next week I want to start, and hopefully finish, lesson 8 and it's associated exercises. Next week I'll also continue to add to my Kurmanji vocab anki deck and maybe complete a couple of the grammar anki decks along with it. As far as morale goes I've definitely gotten a bit of senioritis going on. I'm finding it more and more difficult to work on any of my schoolwork as I move further into the second semester. I'd say I'm about 50% done with the project.  Here is my progress in my anki Kurmanji vocab deck

 This week I finished lesson 7 which mostly focused on the formation of verbs in the future tense. There are three different ways to express the future depending on whether or not the verb is transitive or continuous. I also continued to work on my Kurdish vocabulary anki deck and my Kurdish grammar anki decks. Right now I'm mostly focused on building my vocabulary and next week I'll dive into lesson 8 in the Kurmanji Kurdish for the Beginners book. I feel like I'm on track to complete everything I wanted to by the end of the year and I feel much more confident with learning and understanding things in Kurmanji. I thought that learning the language would be much harder than it has been. While there are still many things which I don't understand, the free resources and kind people I've found online have helped tremendously. I think that I'm about 40% of the way done with my project and I can't wait until I can actually start applying more of the things I'