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In this session we went over a translation passage that will show up on the student's test this week. We did a detailed translation, focusing on accuracy, especially for verb tenses and noun cases. The student wrote out the translation she did, so there is something to study from. I also gave some pointers as to how to study for a translation test.

Today, the student and I spent some time reviewing overall grammatical concepts for her upcoming test. We focused primarily on different types of subordinate clauses; she definitely seemed to understand these better than the last time we met. She also went through a translation she needed to complete for Monday; again, I thought this went better than her previous translation, and she did a great job parsing some tricky subordinate clauses. For our lesson tomorrow, I asked her to send me a scan of her last quiz and to see if she can obtain a study guide from her teacher. I think that she does well with broad concepts, but sometimes has trouble with details on her tests, so having more information about the teacher's specific expectations will be most helpful.

The student started a chapter on the dative case with other special uses. We began by reviewing the dative case endings for all 5 declensions, demonstrative, relative, intensive, and personal pronouns, and then I explained the chapter more slowly and in more detail. She said she understood the material a lot better afterwards. After going through the grammatical explanations, we worked on translating the passage that is due tomorrow. Her translations have been getting more accurate on the first try; she needed a reminder or two about indirect statements and verb tenses, but did not seem to struggle with the passage at all afterwards