Last night I stayed up late watching the Hills Have Eyes which was a pretty scary fillum and I'd have to say very sickening. So this morning I woke up at 10 and hadn't done my homework. I was determined though, not to keep floating from class to class never making any progress and to never remember certain words (it's sad how many times I've forgotten the Arabic word for specialist!) so I decided to start work after my lesson and do my homework. I made it through all the homework and learnt some handy concepts and also picked up a few questions to take to the teacher. So when I headed to my class at 1 this afternoon I felt quite on top of things and quietly proud of myself. Doing my homework, however, didn't make my lesson easier, it made it harder!
After we covered the homework my teacher chucked me in the deep end by getting me to do exercises on the spot out-loud with him waiting for me. A common technique for learning Arabic seems to be - here's some words - make some sentences using them. Which I guess is fair enough but the engineer in me wants to know specifically what sentence they want me to say in Arabic. We must have done 30 or so examples of this today and I was running out of interesting sentences to make up. Mostly I sticking with I study here, I forgot his name, I live here with variations of this. I think the creativity to make new sentences gets a bit stiffled when you're bogged down with remembering words.
My teacher seemed a bit impatient with me today but we're flying through Al-Kitaab so I can't be going too badly. I've been given another page full of vocabularly to learn by next Sunday and tomorrow we head to Hadramount for 4 days - yahoo!
After we covered the homework my teacher chucked me in the deep end by getting me to do exercises on the spot out-loud with him waiting for me. A common technique for learning Arabic seems to be - here's some words - make some sentences using them. Which I guess is fair enough but the engineer in me wants to know specifically what sentence they want me to say in Arabic. We must have done 30 or so examples of this today and I was running out of interesting sentences to make up. Mostly I sticking with I study here, I forgot his name, I live here with variations of this. I think the creativity to make new sentences gets a bit stiffled when you're bogged down with remembering words.
My teacher seemed a bit impatient with me today but we're flying through Al-Kitaab so I can't be going too badly. I've been given another page full of vocabularly to learn by next Sunday and tomorrow we head to Hadramount for 4 days - yahoo!
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