Maybe you are better than me. Maybe, when you have to memorize something, you can do so without cheating. I cannot. If i'm holding the piece of paper, or the flash cards, or looking at the screen of what I need to memorize, I almost always find myself cheating. It is because of this that I often need Jenny's help when I'm required to memorize.
With Vocab words for Hebrew last year, she often had to hold and flip them for me so that I couldn't just cheat and convince myself I would remember it.
Tonight, Jenny had to help through the unknown. I had to memorize 6 verses of Hebrew text for the Old Testament so that I could record myself saying them to hand in on Thursday. As I was doing so, I would constantly find myself looking at the paper to "remind" me. I had convinced myself that I would remember it all. I needed to let go of the paper though, and needed to do so in a way where there was still accountability to what I was saying. The hard part was, the Hebrew symbols meant nothing to Jenny. There was no bit of pronunciation to be found in them, so she wouldn't have been able to tell me if I skipped a word, or mispronounced it.
So I got to "transliterate" it for her. Fun words like "lka" or "vsamu" and such. It worked wonderfully though. She asked informative questions to me, and gave a critical opinion on the precision of my regurgitation of the text even though she could probably only translate 5 of the words (God, Moses, Aaron, Israel, and Shalom).
She did a wonderful job of helping through the unknown.
P.S. My spellchecker doesn't like the words "lka" or "vsamu."
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
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It's true, I did get technical on his consistency and whether he pronounced the letter y as sounding like "ya" or as "e".
In the end he finished in 2 takes. Way to go Love!
Here is a random question that I think you know the answer to. How do you peal a Kiwi?
Between Jenny and I, we'll offer two methods.
The skin of a Kiwi is thin enough, that I (my method) would be to use a potatoe or vegetable peeler to peel it all off before slicing it. Without that tool, I just would use a knife to slice off the skin.
Jenny offers that method that many people slice the Kiwi into pieces first and then just cut the skin off the edge of those slices.
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