TS #8

For my 8th Tutoring session I met Mohammad at the clubhouse of his apartment complex on Friday, December 7th, 2018. Mohammad truly enjoyed our previous session's focus on using poetry to expand his vocabulary. He said he had been including music in his studies, and asked me if I was familiar with Kelly Clarkson. We exchanged our favorite Kelly Clarkson music videos, and I had him listen for the words and attempt to decipher the meanings. This lead to discussion of vocabulary depth, and he informed me that Arabic has an insane number of words and even greater depth than in English. He provided the example of the word eye; which means eyeball, someone who sees (a spy?), and "eye of the water" meaning a lake. He asked me for an example of an English word with more than 2 separate depth definitions, and I walked him through all the different meanings for the word "record". Discussion of further terms of depth lead to discussions about Arabic slow cooking in a fire pit, death, suicide, and spiritual beliefs. At the end of the session, Mohammad stated that he would like to find a poetry night or an open mic night to practice his listening skills. We looked up available offerings in Tallahassee and made plans to attend one.

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