On Friday my wife and I had another tutoring session. We covered verbs, especially those that are used to express types of sounds (or onomatopoeia). I would read the verb to her and she would give me a sentence using the verb. If she did not know what it meant, I would repeat the word again and ask her what it would sound like.
It is interesting that in Japanese, (as well as other languages, I am sure) they have onomatopoeia that does not closely resemble their English counter-part. For example, the phrase for crunch in Japanese is kuri kuri. They usually use two words instead of one to describe a sound.
During the latter half of the session we played a mini board game where we had to ask each other questions in the form of "Have you ever?". The responses were very interesting. The question "Have you ever loved someone at first sight?" generated interesting responses from both of us.
I feel that during this session we learned a lot of new things, not only about language, but also about both of our cultures and personal experiences.
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