Ko tu dari?

"What are you doing?" In Latvian: "Ko [koo.ah] tu [to] dari [d.are.ee]?" Questions are good for language learning. But, of course, it's helpful to know just what the person might be saying when they answer!!! I asked the question above to some young boys playing in a stream and they proceeded to tell me a whole paragraph worth and I didn't understand a thing. But at least they knew what I was asking and gave an answer.

This week in Latvian class one of the students said that when you're learning a language you will make a million mistakes so you might as well get started! We get to make lots of mistakes without feeling stupid. Everyone in class is really motivated so one girl asked today if we could have more homework! Yikes! I do think that's a good thing but now I will have more to do in the evenings and on weekends.

Last night after the youth meeting some young girls needed a ride home. One of them lives quite far out of Tilza so I thought I would try asking some questions as we drove out there. These were questions we had worked on during the day in class. I did understand most of her answers and felt quite successful.

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It's starting to get cold here and we need to keep a fire going in our house most of the time. I will always be grateful for my Girl Scout experiences where I learned about building fires and keeping them going. I have found that it takes about 5 -8 good sized logs to keep things nice and warm for the evening and through the night. If it's cold in the morning none of us wants to get out of bed and get the fire going again.