Learn Kurmanji

 This week I mostly spent enjoying my spring break but I also spent a bit of time rethinking my outlook for this project. I don't feel that my original goal of making a minidocumentary really fits in well with what I've been learning. It would require me to refresh on a ton of video editing skills that aren't so relevant to learning the language. It would also be a pretty major time commitment to find footage and put it all together when really the language is the important part of everything. Instead of this original goal I will instead find an already made mini documentary in English, translate it to Kurmanji, and then dub over the original video with the translated script. I feel this will do a better job at utilizing the skills which I have acquired and wish to showcase. The final product will still be the same, a minidocumentary about the region in which the language is spoken and the movement that inspired me to learn it, but I get to focus more on the language and le

 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