The letters are starting to make sense :) This is my arabic teacher, talking and writing, believing that we all truly do understand.It's getting easier. Slowly! It actually says Canada on the board, the second word from the top on the left. Can you see it? You read it from right to left. It starts with an S shape. That's Kah. Jennifer is written above it and Kathryn is below it. It makes us feel both smart and stupid at the same time. That's impressive.
But you can't learn a language in a matter of weeks - and we've decided to take Arabic 1 in November. We have 2 more classes of introductory Arabic, before Eid (the celebration marking the end of Ramadan). We just want to be able to understand our students! The horrible thing is that our students speak Kuwaiti Arabic, which is practically a completely different language than ordinary Arabic...d'oh!
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heh I like the picture.
That's what I think French is like to my students.
yeah, it reminds me not to just talk on and on in french...because they all look at me and complain.
but i wish i was teaching at least one older class. i want to be able to SPEAK french every day...and for them to understand!
Keep on trucking with the Arabic, Katie. *I'm* impressed by how much you've picked up already. You've already mastered more in a month than I did in a year in Japan.
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