Hi, and welcome to my Uzbek blog. Here, I will attempt to re-teach and re-learn Uzbek to myself and anyone daring enough to read this. I welcome anyone who wants to collaborate and those of you who just love Uzbek. While my primary focus will be on grammar and conversational Uzbek, I'm open to anyone who would like to speak about any topic regarding the language, country, or Central Asia in general.
Why?
I decided to take Uzbek in order to fulfill a graduation requirement. It's not to say that I don't enjoy languages, because I really do. And after my first quarter of Uzbek in the fall, I kind of fell in love with it. Unfortunately, I did a mental check-out in the middle of my second quarter. Part of that was due to other commitments, and part of it was because the curriculum lost its cohesion. The class stopped examining grammar and lots its linear approach to the language.
The assumption was that we would all be able to keep up, but I was left in the dust. Many of my classmates (only five of them) had been to Central Asia before, or worked extremely hard at it (I probably could have done more, yes, but this is more my style). But even some of them felt like lecture had become a waste of time.
Now it's my last quarter, and I'm weeks away from graduating, finally (it's been a long five years). Maybe it's folly for me to try and learn it now, but I'm not willing to give it up or slowly forget all I've learned already because of varying circumstances. Uzbek is a wonderful language, and maybe I can share that same passion.
That being said, welcome!
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