Post 9- Week 5

This was my origional plan for Week 5, however, as expected it has changed.

Previous Plan:
Week 5- Practice the accumulated self-introduction from week 2 to week 4 in writing and speaking. At the same time, finish off the self-introduction and give it to the native person to check. Once I have received feedback, I will need to practice speaking it and writing it. Use Quizlet as a revision tool for vocabularies.

New Plan:
Week 5- Practice the accumulated self-introduction from week 2 to week 4 in writing. At the same time, finish off the self-introduction and give it to the native person to check. Once I have received feedback, I will need to practice writing it. Use Quizlet as a revision tool for vocabularies.

After completing this week's self-introduction, I have finished my self-introduction. It feels like just yesterday, but I can see the improvement from my writing the first time and now. The most obvious change in the self-introduction is the length of it. I started off not even half a page long and now it's nearly a page long. 





For this week's self-introduction there were no mistakes found by my native friend. When writing this introduction, there were many times where I have unintentionally used Traditional Chinese, however, realised its Traditional, so therefore changed it into Simplified. It is still automatic for my brain to write Traditional, however, my goal is to be able to write Simplified. I guess I just need to be careful in checking my work to see if I have the correct form (Simplified) or not. 









This week I spent 80 mins altogether in my LLC. I didn't spend too much time on writing my self-introduction, that took me 10 mins, and the rest was working on Quizlet. As I was not as busy like last week, I was able to spend more time in browsing through the app. I prefer using Quizlet on my ipad compared to my desktop. There are more activities on the desktop version, however, I believe the format on the ipad helps me learn vocabulary better. This is a test from Quizlet on the desktop version. 

Desktop Version

It can be seen that there are answers to let you choose from. As I am getting more used to the vocabulary I guess right now, I prefer no help, and use my own knowledge to write the Chinese characters. As the ipad version allows me to do this, I prefer it. This is the ipad version. The ipad detects what it believes you are writing and gives you some words to choose from. 

Ipad version

In this week's workshop and reading. It was discussing about translation. I thought it was interesting because my whole LLC was based on translation. I was not surprised when it stated that Translation was out of favour with the language teaching  community in the reading, as there are also times where I believe so. It states that "translation is unnatural". It was also being mentioned as "inefficient" and "unreliable". I personally experienced it when I was doing my LLC, when I wanted to say "keep" a pet, it didn't give me the correct translation. The translation they provided me meant "keep" as well, however, that "keep" is meant to be used in another context. I need to say that there are the pros and cons for translation, depending on how you use it. It may be highly useful at times, but on the other hand, it may provide you the wrong information, leading you to learn mistaken things.