I feel like it's really helpful and important to provide students opportunities to display any kind of knowledge that they have mastered. Even beginner conversations like 'como estas' can do a lot for one's confidence. I think once people know they've completed a topic, they realize they have the abilities to understand language and move on to the next.

There's so many little examples of how you need to try and fail in order to learn and master something. School literally exists to learn, which will never be a perfect process, so why would one out of so many classes hold people back. I feel like for me, I'm scared of messing up because language is such an important part of people's cultures and identities.

This made me think a lot about the difference that forms of multimodality can make in terms of comprehension in conversations. For example, someone could have a friend that has a history of lying to them but is asking something, promising they can trust them. Although in other circumstances, their behaviors, words, tone, and body language might cause you to fulfill their request, the past actions of this friend can play a huge role in how you intake their communication. Sometimes when people are describing something to set a scene attached to negative emotions or create an image that excites or will make the other person happy, the whole conversation can convince someone of something without even having to really ask.