New Technology

Working with a young man from the Ukraine and I knew I would be out of town for our first meeting so I asked him if he had Skype and yes he did so I sent him a request and he accepted so last night we met even though we were in different parts of the state. It went well but it is obvious that he is more technologically inclined than I. We got things covered but we will try to meet face to face as it was very obvious that our sound was a little out of whack and in dealing with a language where grapheme phoneme relationship as far as speech is considered is very important. He picked up the sounds very well I thought but he is struggling a bit with the short /e/ and short /i/ which I really thing being in the same room with will help him and me both. My hearing and dialect will influence but if we keep going and keep working we will be fine. I learn more from my students than they can ever learn from me.