improve my Arabic

I can’t do this now, or maybe for several years. Then we’ll see if there’s a reason or a will.

I’ve slowed down a bit too much. It’s some time since I completed a chapter in my book. It may really be time that I rewarded myself with a decent grammar of Arabic. It’s so dumb that when I want to remember the rules for the endings after len, in, and lem, I have to page laboriously through my giant al-kitaab. I should be able to just look that stuff up.

Hanging in there.

I’ve been doing about an hour a day. I figure I will finish a book that lasts a term in college in about three weeks total.

It would be sooner but I have all these jobs.

Go me!

I got my CDs that go to the book I dragged back and forth to Lebanon, NOT REALIZING I would need the CDs to do the exercises. I had thought they were just for wusses who don’t know how to pronounce Arabic.

Now the true problem will be pacing myself and being persistent. Thirty minutes a day! Timed!

I saw a set of flashcards and just HAD to get them even though I can’t afford such frivolities. I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time, though, because I feel my weak vocabulary is holding me back more than anything in Arabic.