Genius Hour Post #4

Hi people!

Today I am going to reflect on what I have learned about my Genius Hour topic so far. I discovered that my goal was a little too specific and hard to monitor. Improving my spoken French is quite difficult to monitor if you aren't that comfortable speaking with others online via Skype or Discord. So I had to change my goal to just improving my French overall. I like this goal better because I have written, spoken, and comprehension that I can monitor instead of just my spoken French. The apps that I am using are phenomenal. I learned that it is a little too much to handle if I wanted to branch out into more than two applications and still maintain using them fully. I decided to limit my Genius Hour to using only Duolingo and Ayni.

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I've managed to learn a little bit about myself. Apparently I have a "French" accent, as opposed to an "Ontarian" or "Quebecois" accent. This was nice to learn as it is close to the way that people pronunciate in France! I also learned that I am not that comfortable speaking to people that I don't know online through different apps. It may have been because I was to speak in French, but I just wasn't very comfortable. I'd like to think that I am a fairly social person but I just couldn't do it. Additionally, I learned that my French grammar isn't as great as I thought it was. This is mostly because I don't have any French speakers around that I can converse with. I learned though Ayni that the French (much like us) have particular ways that they say things and when you deviate from that they will understand what you mean but it will sound.. funny.

That's all for today!