Gavin Byrd TS#14

My seventh tutoring session with Dojun was us more talking about American culture again. I asked in the middle of the lesson if he would like to stop the conversation and return to focusing on listening. He said that he enjoyed more listening to me, and that it was the type of listening he was truly trying to get better at. So we continued to discuss American culture and the peculiar displays media shows about different countries. I was surprised with the quickness of his responses! I told him at the end of the lesson that his grammar and vocabulary were not 100 percent perfect, but his "communication" was great. He asked what I meant by that, and said "Well simply being able to get your point across in a foreign language is half of the challenge. Getting the perfect tense/grammar is secondary to being able to communicate."