Previous Plan:
Week 4- Keep on practicing speaking and writing of the corrected self-introduction from week 2. At this stage, there should be at least 6 sentences done for the self-introduction (week 2- 3 sentences, week 3- 3 sentences). Keep on adding sentences to the self-introduction. At least 3 sentences needs to be done this week. After finishing this week’s sentences, again give it to the native person for a check. Get the native person to check for mistakes then practice speaking the self-introduction with them. A small check-list will be handed to the native person to see if my pronunciation and writing skills have improved from week 2.
New Plan:
Week 4- Keep on practicing writing of the corrected self-introduction from last week. At this stage, there should be at least 6 sentences done for the self-introduction (week 2- 3 sentences, week 3- 3 sentences). Keep on adding sentences to the self-introduction. At least 3 sentences needs to be done this week. After finishing this week’s sentences, again give it to the native person for a check. Get the native person to check for mistakes then practice speaking the self-introduction with them.
Due to having exams and assignments for other courses, I did not have as much time to practice my vocabulary on Quizlet. I was planning to spend 90 mins this week on the Language Learning Challenge, however, I only spent 19 mins in total this week. All the time was spent on rewriting my corrected version of self-introduction from last week and adding 5 more extra lines, and an extra few minutes on going onto Quizlet for a game.
This is what I had written for this week. After rewriting the corrected version, I handed it over to the native friend for a check. The verbal comments she made to me were in Chinese, and if translated into English it would be:
"The amount of traditional characters that I needed to correct has comparatively decreased from last week, however, there are still many characters written in Traditional Chinese. 遊楽地区 is not incorrect, however, it is more classified as Taiwanese Chinese, and not Mainland Chinese, therefore using 主题公园 would be more appropriate if you were writing a Simplified Chinese self-introduction."
When using Quizlet this week, I decided to use my desktop computer instead of my ipad to study. I realised that for the desktop version, things are called differently.
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| Desktop Version |
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| Ipad Version |
For example, Scatter is called Match on the ipad version and Cards are called Flashcards on the desktop version. For the desktop version, there are more activities that can be played around with.
An example is Speller which is an activity where you type in what you hear and see.
Scatter and Match they have the same icons on both the desktop and ipad version, however, the activities are slightly different. On the desktop version, you need to pair the Chinese and English up by dragging it, while on the ipad version of Match it is just simply tapping on two icons in a table as introduced in Post 7- Week 3.
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| Desktop Version |
For the desktop version, I believe it takes longer as you need to drag it over to correct one, while the other is just tap and tap. For Scatter, it annoyed me in some ways because firstly it takes time to drag and your competing with the time. Secondly, even if you drag it, and you are not making the pairs overlap, it would not consider it as being correct. This is an example.
The two pairs are so close to each other and if you look closely, there are overlapping but the computer just doesn't believe in that. When this kind of a problem occurs, I then need to redrag it and make sure it OVERLAPS, so then I can move on and finish my game. This kind of a problem makes me quite annoyed since I know the answer, but then the computer just doesn't accept it, therefore my score time will be lowered.
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