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| bouda Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 194 posts - 197 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 33 of 160 05 August 2009 at 4:48am | IP Logged |
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What do you do when you want to improve drastically and fast?
It has suddenly become a matter of paramount importance that I become better at Arabic. I had a similar situation a few years ago with Chinese, and I solved the problem by studying doggedly from my textbooks and, more importantly, trying my best to simulate an immersion environment. I didn't really watch movies or speak to my friends in Chinese or whatever, but I forced my mother to speak only in Chinese to me (I'm half/half, but I refused to learn Mandarin as a little kid and my parents never spoke it around me, which is why I had to start learning so late), and I think that really helped. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to make my family members speak only Arabic to me, as none of them know Arabic! ETA: I'm not seriously asking for a magic solution, although if you had one that'd be great; I'm just venting my stress. I'm not too horribly worried about it all. I think if I continue studying at a steady pace, I'll probably understand enough for my purposes, anyway. Edited by bouda on 05 August 2009 at 5:05am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bouda Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 194 posts - 197 votes Speaks: English* | Message 35 of 160 05 August 2009 at 1:57pm | IP Logged |
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I recently - read: yesterday - started using lang-8 due to the recommendation of
togda.blogspot.com (sorry, I don't know if you have an username here!), and it's been really helpful to me. I have gotten one correction thus far. I was pleased to find that I didn't have as many mistakes as I thought I did, but there was still a lot to correct! It seems like right now I need to work on: - checking my spelling. There were two basic words that I was spelling in a funny way. - there is some new, useful vocabulary in the correction that I should learn so that I don't have to express myself like a tongue-tied caveman. - now that I'm looking at my entry, I can tell that while I was generally trying to think in Arabic while writing this, insomuch as I am able to, I did slip back into translating from English (as opposed to drawing from my knowledge of Arabic, if this makes any sense), which made some of the sentences a little strange. Will post corrected copy on my blog later so I can access it easily. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bouda Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 194 posts - 197 votes Speaks: English* | Message 36 of 160 05 August 2009 at 7:05pm | IP Logged |
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Having a hard time finding good Arabic language online bookstores with nice covers and nice prices. I know I'm asking too much. Right now I'm using alkitab but the shipping is $6 for the first book, no matter how thin or light it is!
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| snovymgodom Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5732 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 37 of 160 05 August 2009 at 9:11pm | IP Logged |
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Hi bouda! I'm the poster from togda.blogspot.com. I follow many of the language logs on this site, although I don't post that frequently. On these types of forums I tend to be more of a lurker than a poster. :)
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| bouda Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 194 posts - 197 votes Speaks: English* | Message 38 of 160 06 August 2009 at 12:46am | IP Logged |
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What is your username from? Does it have a meaning or is it just sort of random?
I know what you mean about lurking. I lurk on a lot of blogs and threads too. I mostly just post here in my language log - that way I can delude myself into thinking I'm doing something useful! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bouda Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 194 posts - 197 votes Speaks: English* | Message 39 of 160 06 August 2009 at 1:30am | IP Logged |
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TO DO TODAY
memorize three chapters watch that movie I borrowed so I can return it tomorrow write first draft of presentation (should be easy) DOUBLE CHECK ^^^^^^^^^ make up: 6,7, 17, 18 2, 6, read 339 decide what food to bring for the party! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| snovymgodom Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5732 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 40 of 160 06 August 2009 at 1:41am | IP Logged |
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My username is actually s novym godom (с новым годом), and it means "happy new year" in Russian. I actually started using that name on forums and sites during the new year of 2006 when I wanted to start using a different username for my things.
Togda (тогда) is a Russian word meaning "then" in a lot of different senses. It means the conditional "then" as well as the meaning of "at that time" or "back then". It's a pretty common word in Russian. I chose it because I wanted my username on Blogger to be a short name (5-6 characters), and I wanted it to be a Russian word that people would recognize. My livejournal username (aitqandai/айтқандай) means "by the way" in Kazakh, although that blog is being used to store my Russian texts. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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