Sunday, March 1, 2015

Docster CP #5

Last weekend I had Alban over to my house again. We played some video games and chatted a bit about how the break was going, and how Alban felt about the first session. He did very well in productive areas, but not as well in receptive areas. He has made significant progress in the past months. Eventually, we discussed the differences between languages, specifically, French, Spanish, and English. Alban felt that American English was "crazy" compared to these other languages due to what he described as harsh sounds and difficult to understand pronunciations. We had a brief discussion about how languages are not weird or crazy, but just different. I tried to express my empathy at learning a foreign language, especially when it comes to speech and listening.

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