TP #5 - Matthew

I had two Tutoring sessions this week that kind of touched on the same subject and covered the same information. Therefore, TP #5 and TP #6 will probably look quite similar in review of discussion. Anyways, Cheers. Today we continued our listening and speaking skills and listened to a few youtube clips. I had copied down the subtexts of the clips and printed them out, deleting a few words. This allowed my 2 students to listen to the missing passages (which were usually the parts where the accent really effects the words). I found it interesting that the English and Australian accent was easily picked up. Nasser said it is so because in Saudi Arabia he communicates mainly with English folk.

The southern accent is a genuine mystery.

There was no luck in even trying to comprehend half of the southern accents I picked. Honestly, I was having difficulty understanding as well. The next lesson, I chose a less difficult southern accent to listen to. After the few passages of different languages, we felt confident to move on to speaking. I used the America Today passages from the website Ramin gave us and had them each read a passage. Then we would go over what words were difficult to pronounce. Often we would get off topic because the subjects of the conversation were interesting. I did not mind because, even though we were off topic, we were still speaking and learning.

Everything is a learning process.

Until next time,

Matthew