اخيرا, أنا استطيع ان اضيف رسالة جديدة! كانت لدي مغامرات كثيرة! من ابرز هده المغامرات, النهاية من الاسبوع الاول من الفصول. الفصول كانت ممتاز. أنا عندي كثير من الافكار المختلفة الان.
اولا, كل شيء رخيص جدا, أنا اشتريت هاتف محمول جديد امس. الثمن كان 200 جنية, تقريبا 35 دولار.
مشروب كثير يكلف 2 جنية, وجبة تكلف 7 جنية.
ايضا, يوجد كثير من التلوث في القاهرة. لكن يمكنك ان تتحمله
غدا , يبدأ النهاية الاسبوع, هدا الصباح, لقيت اشخاص من الفندق و سوف نزور الحديقة الحيوانات معا. بعد ذاك, سوف ازور المتحف المصري.
أدرس كثير للدروس لانها مكثرة جدا. أنا ذهبت الى فندق فخم قريب من فندقي لشاهدة فيلم, لكن الافلام لم تعرض حين وصلت. اذاٌ أنا رجعت الى الفندق و تحدثت مع العامل.
عادةٌ, أنا أستيقظ و أخذ دش, ثم اتكلم مع البنت التي تعمل هنا. تجلبني فطور و نناقش الأمور بالعربية و تساعدني في التعليم العربي. سوف أذهب و أشتري بعض طعام و مشروبات و اكل اكثر, أنا احب ان اتكلم مع الناس على الشارع. كان مضحكا, احد من البنات قالت اني أشبة ليوناردو دي كابريو, ولكن اكثر وسيم. الان, ماذا اقول عن ذاك؟ أنا كنت خجولا جدا و ضحكت.
سوف اكتب اكثر قريبا. الان أنا تعبان. غدا سيكون يوم كبير.
تحميل الصور بعد أنتهي هده الرسالة. كانت المدينة جميلة الليلة, لكني نسيت كاميرا. هناك توجد كثير من الفرص في المستقبل.
كل احد,لدى التفاؤل, العالم ليس الحالك السواد كما تبدو.
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I enjoyed reading your entries. You seem to know quite a bit of Arabic! How long have you been studying MSA? Do you study in college?
ReplyDeletenice to hear from you. I been studying (MSA mainly) all by my lonely self for a little less than two years on top of going to college and working parttime. I just love learning the language and its amazing how it seems like after about a year of learning the language my mind just opened up and can absorb information. I am able to sit in my college classes which are some fairly hard ones with lots of information and can just rememberthe vast majority of it a week later without notes or anything. Its amazing. Have you noticed that at all. One of my friends told me she felt like she could take in a lot more information after learning spanish and I can now understand. Anyway I figured if I wanted to actually learn the language I needed to be serious about it so Im here now in cairo. My speaking is weak in MSA, although it is improving fast (first time really speaking it, I had just been reading out loud and talking to myself before coming here), but comprehension is getting good, I was able to take a tour of the museam in MSA and could understand a lot of the history and the artifacts. Ammiyah is crazy, ut I think If I start studying that now along with improving MSA I will be fluent in a year if I come back next summer and study with AraAcademy again. Anyway I have class in 15 min so I will talk to you later!
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I want to be fluent in MSA and Egyptian by 25, so 2 years. I think I can do it. I added another year to my 1 year prediction after todays classes. I think I may have gotten sick from eating the delicious but probably very dirty street food. dirt cheap too its like 2.5 pounds (50 cents) for 3 fairly big falafels
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty crazy that you've been studying by yourself for about 2 years. I can only imagine how hard that was. How did you start out? Something like Rosetta Stone? I probably would have gotten discouraged and given up if I didn't have any Arabic classes to go to in the beginning. After I got a foundation in the language though I actually prefer self study as opposed to sitting in a class with people of different skill levels.
ReplyDeleteI've been studying Arabic for 2 years as well and at this point I can understand most things in MSA, Egyptian and Levantine, but Iraqi and Gulf Arabic are really hard for me. They just say things so differently even if the words do contain the same letters. Like any language though I guess it just takes some time getting used to it.
I actually just started with the book and cds contained in a Teach yourself Arabic package. Got through that after a couple months thinking that I would be fluent, obviously not, but it gave me a decent foundation and then moved on to just a whole vareity of books. Arabic Pod, naturalarabic.com, bbcarabic articles and broadcast. songs to somewhat get used to dialect. I did use Rosetta Stone the past couple months got to level III but I just felt it was just teaching a very old or not used phrases and seemed mechanical. I never finished the third level. Just didn't have time to get through it with school. Now if Rosetta Stone taught Egyptian I would get it in a second.
ReplyDeleteI felt like I was just not very organized in my learning, I would read an article, listen to newscasts, maybe read some flashcards, and listen to arabic pod when I run or bike, or drive.
But this school here in Cairo I feel like I it is very organized and that it involves speech, reading, comprehension and writing. I definately needed that and will most likely continue with them online after I leave. I am in an Intermediate Low class for MSA ( they base it on the ACTFL).
I can read fairly well(on topics I know about, I'm particulary good with articles about bombings security attacks killings raids israel (seems like all the main articles are about that on bbcarabic) and write ok. But when it comes to speaking I am just out of it. I know what I want to say, but I don't know how to say it. Comprehension is decent for my level, I mean I can understand the main jist of a lot of bbc arabic newscasts without pictures. And can understand most of the short phrases of the things in the simpsons episodes. But especially in speaking I just draw blanks.
How were your experiences with speaking? Sorry for the long response, I need to be more precise.
Well speaking isn't something that I focus on or practice, but I've found that I've gotten better at it as I've progressed in comprehension. I believe that after a ton of listening your brain just kind of absorbs the language and you can speak it. I speak a kind of mix between MSA, Levantine, and Egyptian which can be understood by Arabs, but it probably sounds weird to them that I don't speak a uniform type of Arabic. Basically in whichever dialect the word comes to me first, that's the one I use.
ReplyDeleteSo basically I just hold to the idea that as your comprehension skills increase over time, so does your ability to speak. I never really liked having to practice speaking in Arabic class because if I don't know the words or how Arabs say it then I don't know how to say it. It seems like an obvious statement, but most people still think that practicing speaking makes you better at it. Maybe that's true once you know all the words and can understand everything, but until then speaking practice is just regurgitating things that you already know and not learning anything new. You may disagree, but that's how I feel about it.
man that is exactly how I feel. I mean if they are asking me a question then I just rely on what I already know or am used to speaking. I think its strange because I know a whole lot of words, I have a ton of information in my head, but when it comes to speaking just off the top of my head, (even just writing can be hard)work on speaking some new words and not just have the teacher ask me a question and then I answer.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like I understand a lot of the words when listening, but I just don't put together the overall meaning
i think it cut out the middle of my post. anyway for my speech class the teacher told me to pick any topic to talk about, so I decided I was going to write a simple paper on diabetes II, writing it out and then trying to use some of the words that I don't normally use to speak to talk about it instead of just trying to do it off the top of my head. So I can at least practice saying new words.
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