Latvian Classes

Last week we started our intensive Latvian course for native English speakers. Katie Roth is making it well worth our time by being very creative in her methods (using all the senses!!) and having us work hard. We have class from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. three days a week. Then in the afternoons we have assignments at the local school or around town.

Shown here are two of the seven students learning with me. About half of us live in Tilza and the others are coming from as far away as Riga (about 250 kilometers).

This "map" shows some types of buildings, offices, etc. in a typical town from which we learned vocabulary and some of the "locative" endings!!

The pictures of Katie's family in a family tree format helped us learn about relationships and prepared us to talk with people (mostly Katie's 6th grade English class) about their families, where they live and what they do.