This post is part of my ongoing Journal on learning Burmese. You can read the whole Journal here.
OK, so, today I got some exciting news. I've just been accepted into an elective unit through my Masters in Teaching at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education that's going to allow me to travel to, and teach in Myanmar for 2 weeks this coming November.
A new language project is upon me!
I thought it would be interesting to practice this new language, AND to log how much time I actually spend on it.
Following my S.A.(U).L.T (Survey, Acquire, Understand, Link, Train) framework I've just surveyed the internet (by googleing ‘best learn burmese resources') and found this article which looked good (it had the word ‘hacking' in it, an indicator that the author was serious about efficient learning). That then linked me to this resource which I've now acquired. I then looked on my language exchange for language partners, but didn't find any who speak Burmese in Melbourne, so I just googled ‘Burmese Carlton' (I live in carlton) and the only results that came up were a curry restaurant. I did all of this to try to find a language exchange partner, which I still want to do, so this weekend I'll go to that curry restaurant, have dinner there, practice my burmese that I've learned, and see if they know anyone who wants to do a language exchange.
Total time to date: 15 minutes. Now… to get stuck into ‘Understand‘. Wish me luck, I'll report back in a week.
Edit: You can see my following posts on learning Burmese here