Date/Time: Monday August 29
Location: Starbucks on Tennessee 7:00-8:00pm
Topic discussed: Turky & what he is hoping to learn
Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned:
I learned that there is Saudi Arabia is called a different word in Arabic
I met up with Turky and his friend Mohammad so as to discuss what Turky wants to get out of the CIES program. Turky just arrived from Saudi Arabia two weeks prior to this meeting and his English level is so low that Mohammad felt the need to come to our first meeting to help with the language barrier. Turkey tells me he wants to learn a lot of the everyday things such as what to do in a store and what questions to ask people. He also tells me that he wants me to be his tutor two or three times a week. Even though he was supposed to just be my conversation partner I accept because I see that he really does want to improve and I have the time. When he learns that I know Spanish he is delighted and asks me to tell him how to say 'how are you' in Spanish (Como estas?) so he can communicate with some of his new friends. He is very friendly and a quick learner so I think we will get along well.
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