Senior Project: Day 6

(Monday April 11)
Today was a turning point in my project. As I crank away at the verb conjugations, ever-growing vocabulary list, and reading The Alchemist my language fluency is growing at a exponential rate. However, my lessons with Ana is when I really feel myself learning.
Today I had one class period to work on Portuguese work. I started my vocabulary list on a word document so every time I learn a new word I enter it into my doc. By the end of the month I will have my own dictionary that tracks the new words I learned throughout my project. I do not add the words that I already can remember from my baseline fluency.
After school I rushed over to my lesson with Ana. From 4:00pm to 5:20pm we had our lesson speaking completely in Portuguese. I slowly feel more and more coming back to me. And quite honestly, neither of us feel an hour is long enough (probably why we ran over time). Ana had me read through all the conjugations I made to make sure I could pronounce everything correctly. This sometimes produces a problem for me because my initial reaction is to pronounce something with a Spanish accent. Afterwards, gave me a couple worksheets and I worked on them whilst reading out loud, working on the use of past tense preterite. We then reviewed how to describe weather, action vocab, and clothes vocabulary. Probably most importantly, we have an ongoing sheet of all the exceptions or especially tricky things when it comes to the Portuguese language and I need to familiarize myself with them.
I am enjoying my project and especially my lessons with Ana even more than I thought I was going to. I only wish my other classes that I did not drop did not require so much of my time and attention because I am finding it hard to do all that I want to do for my project when I have so much other work.