to be honest....
2 years ago
i have been rather underwhelmed by the help given me here to learn arabic so i have tried to do it on my own, listening and asking and trying to pick it up as i go along. i can understand more than i can say but i can sort of get along a little and, most importantly of all, i can buy goodies from the little sweetie shop over the road.
actually i love this shop as it reminds me of the sweet shops from when i was a kid; it’s quite small and jam packed with delights from chocolate to note pads to glue to cheap plastic toys. of course being an egyptian shop the owner also has a mobile phone you can use, numerous pirate cassettes and bottles of perfume with ‘slightly adjusted’ famous names. it’s an aladdin’s cave. :-)
