Location: Skype
Listening
In prior sessions 2T & I had talked about upcoming holidays / events / celebrations / etc.. He humors my cultural questions, is patient, and does well explaining until I get a grip on it. I had prepared a listening lesson about Mardi Gras. It just so happens that 28-Feb is Fat Tuesday and 1-Mar is the Korean celebration of the beginning of the resistance movement against Japanese occupation. Apparently, on March first - I'm not sure of the year - everybody in Korea went outside and started shouting at once. Thus began the movement for an independent Korea. I'm going to read more about that but I wanted to log what I understood from 2T's explanation and not have it influenced by what my 1st language research turns up.
We executed our standard listening lesson procedure: read article slowly, cover vocabulary (thanks to recent evaluation now using each vocabulary word in an example sentence - how the heck could I have missed something so obvious as that?!?), Read article again, slowly. Read again at faster tempo. Discuss. Ask comprehension questions.
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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