Speaking Partner Experience # 8

Today, we worked on words on transportation and word stress. I explained that a fare is what it costs per person to ride public transportation.

We also talked about forms of transportation and Ismenia uses the car mostly and only uses a bus at certain times. Ismenia said that traffic is a problem in her area because people do not obey the street signs and when you cross the road at a green sign, cars do not obey the signs and cut off pedestrians. People also do not cross the street safely there and so there are a lot of traffic problems. Ismenia was curious about how drivers are in Canada and I explained a bit about Canada's Worst Driver and that driver's ed costs a lot and is not necessarily mandatory.

Ismenia sometimes spends half a day travelling around to places because she has to go to multiple places sometimes. We also went over pronunciation of words with stressed syllables. I love how well Ismenia is doing and I love how eager she is to learn. Ismenia does have struggles with numbers sometimes when it comes to pronunciation, but we will work through it.

Ismenia is busy this week because she is moving with her family from a house to an apartment and her assignment was late, so she is a little stressed. I gave her a virtual hug at the end of the call.