Jusitn TS#14

On Wednesday, 10/21 I met with Fabian. After our first lesson I had a better understanding of what Fabian wanted to work on. I started the lesson by going over some common idioms that we use in English. Fabian has an interest in this because he wants to incorporate it into his own speech. It was interesting going over the lesson because there were some idioms that were the exact same in English and Spanish. We were able to focus on idioms for the majority of the lesson because we would run into comprehension problems and new words. Sometimes it was difficult to explain a phrase but I think with time I will have a better way of teaching exact definitions in a simple way. Near the end of the lesson, Fabian explained that he has trouble with some vowel sounds since there is a big difference between Spanish and English. I used some minimal pairs to see if I could identify specifically where he was running into trouble. From what I've seen it's mostly the sounds A and E that give him trouble. I think is due to the fact that in these two languages, the sounds are opposite to each other. I had trouble with this when I was learning Spanish but I've gotten over it with more years of learning Spanish. Hopefully I can help Fabian get over this next time we meet.