Learn Kurmanji

 This week went better than last and I completed lessons 5 and 6 in my Kurmanji Kurdish for the Beginners book. I learned how to use the future tense for verbs, how to use the comparative and superlative, and how to use the subjunctive. Mazlum also taught me a new way of saying thank you. Mala te ava. Which literally means may your house prosper. I also completed lessons 4,6,7 in my Kurmanji grammar anki deck collection. Right now I'm working on expanding my vocabulary with my vocab anki deck and I've started lesson 7 in my book. Next week I plan on finishing lesson 7 and other work associated with my March deliverables. I plan on taking the rest of the week to take a short break (while still maintaining my vocab using anki) and focus on other work. I feel confident that I'll be able to finish everything needed for my next deliverable over this weekend but I definitely should've been doing more work earlier in the month. I think I'm about of a third of the way done...

 This week I completed lesson 4 of my Kurmanji Kurdish for Beginners book. Right now I'm trying to find the energy to stay on top of my vocab anki cards because I'm definitely falling behind on those a bit. Next week is going to be a bit busy as I finish everything up that I need to meet my next deliverable. I feel like I've hit a bit of a brick wall when it comes to my motivation to work on this project and I'll need to face that in the coming week. I've come to the realization that as an English speaker learning this language will be much more difficult that I might of realized at the beginning. By the end of this I am certain that I won't know Kurmanji but fluency was never the end goal. I think I'm somewhere around 25% percent of where I need to be to complete this project.  New verbs and conjugation exercise Verb placement in sentences exercise. 

This week hasn't been as productive as my previous weeks. I've mostly spent it by cementing my vocabulary from the previous couple of weeks. I decided to relook at how I'm learning my vocabulary and I think my new way will be better. I realized that I had overlapping vocabulary in my grammar lessons/ practice sentence Anki flashcard decks and in my pure vocab words deck. The pure vocab deck has audio files as well as noun genders so I've switched over to that for all of my vocab on Anki. Next week I'm going to finish lesson 4 and print out some physical vocab materials. I'd say this week I'm not much closer to completing my project than I was last week so I'm probably still around 15-17% finished.  Some day/time related notes from this week

 This week I dove into the structure of Kurmanji verbs and finished up everything to meet the February 1st deliverable. I have finished memorizing Kurmanji numbers and can count into the milliards. Verbs in Kurdish work very differently then English.  The word starts with a prefix denoting it's tense. Then there's the stem which lets you know what the verb is, verbs have different stems for the past and present. Then there is the ending which correlates with the subject. The ending is the same for most verbs and it is the same as expressing "to be" which makes learning verbs in Kurmanji much easier than some other languages I've tackled in the past.  Next week I plan on finishing the next lesson in the book and I'm going to work on getting these verb stems memorized. I also had the idea to label objects around my house with the Kurmanji word as an extra way to fit the vocabulary into my everyday life. I am also thinking about changing my phone's language t...

This week I've really gotten into the rhythm of learning a language and keeping consistent. I got a notebook to take notes, do my exercises, and write down vocab in. I've completed exercises for lesson one in the Kurmanji Kurdish for the Beginners  book, I've completed two of my anki grammar lesson decks, and I've practiced some conversations on the tandem app. Right now I'm continuing to lesson 2 in my book and I'm coming up with a system to better handle new vocab presented in the exercise book. Next week of course I plan on completing everything to meet with my first monthly deliverables and I want to find ways to incorporate more Kurmanji into my everyday life. I feel that I am a bit behind on reaching my deliverables but I know that I'll be able to push through and get it done with the large amount of class time on Friday and the upcoming weekend. I feel that I'm about 8% of the way through my project. Certainly not 8% to fluency but about that much...