I have been learning bits and pieces of arabic over the years. During the month of June, I am going to spend maybe 20 minutes per day on learning how to speak, read and write. The main tools to learn arabic that I hope to use are Rosetta Stone and a few books. Also, I am fortunate enough to have some friends with whom I can practice my arabic.
By the end of the month, I hope to be able to have short conversation. I figure if I can get over the short conversation I can improve my pronunciation and vocabulary much faster.
June 1st
Learn (at least briefly) how to say:
- he
- she
- eat
- drink
- run
- read
- boy
- girl
- man
- women
I don’t remember them right now. But I will tomorrow!
June 2nd
Worked on learning a few words and their spellings. In the process of learning the different ending for verbs and plurals of nouns.
June 3rd
Am learning a few letters of the alphabet. Baa is the only one so far. Next week I might add some arabic and more stuff that might help other people learn arabic…
4th
Forgot to do anything…
5th
Learning Ta and Noon….
10th
Here’s a frequency list from Qamus.org – I’m going to have to figure out the translations in a bit.
- من – who/than/from
- في
على
عن
ان
التي
الى
الذي
مع
هذا
هذه
بعد
بين
ما
خلال
كما
لا
أن
كل
ذلك
كان
لم
وقال
قد
رئيس
العام
حيث
قبل
اليوم
وفي
End of the month
Well, unfortunately I haven’t focused on learning on arabic as much as I would have liked! I am putting this on hold for a bit, though I was starting to get a little bit better – I just ended up having a lot to look after.