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| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5397 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 41 of 86 13 February 2011 at 4:42am | IP Logged |
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Day 43
20 minutes of Arabic TV 20 minutes of FLR 30 minutes of Writing 2.6 minutes of Anki Hours Studied Today: 1.21 Total Hours: 40.44 Today was my first time writing an original passage in Arabic. I have to say that I felt like the kindergartners I used to teach. I was having to look up spellings to things every other word. The encouraging thing was that I knew how to say everything I was trying to, and I used most of the constructions and things I had learned in my first FLR week. I will post my writing passage below and hopefully will get some constructive criticism from the more knowledgeable people here. Keep in mind two things about my writing: 1.) I have just started, so my writing is very basic. 2.) I do not have much vocabulary to say very much, so it may not make complete sense. Another caveat: I skipped over the first part of the FLR method concerning keywords so my sentences do not flow terribly well. At some point I hope to get around to learning the keywords, but at this point I am not worrying about it. صباح اكجير، أنا جيمس. أتكلم عربي، فرنسي، إتالي، أنجليزي، ألماني، أسباني وروسي. أند كلب اسم كارمن. أند اخت اسمة حذر. كيف حالك؟ كارمن أسودة وأبيدة و هي صغيرة. هي لطيفة وجماة. أتةلم انةليزي بطلاقة ماأتكلم عربي قليل. أنا مشغول الاشن أتكلم ثير. There is my first attempt at writing in Arabic. Please correct what I'm sure are many errors. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 42 of 86 13 February 2011 at 8:06am | IP Logged |
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Hey, I think it's great that you're starting to write Arabic sentences too. I've been
trying to do more of that recently. Think it's a great way to improve. And don't worry about how the sentences sound. I constantly make disparaging comments about my own sentences... how amateurish they sound, how much they read like the work of a first- grader, how little sense they make etc... Now, I'm a beginner myself and I'm definitely no authority on the language but I do think I can spot some errors. 1) Good morning = صباح الخير 2) I think you're trying to say "I have a dog named Carmen." I don't know what "أند" means. Google translate says it means "End". Maybe you could try "لدي كلبة واسمها كارمن" (Ladii kalba wa 'ismuhaa Carmen) or "لدي كلبة مسماة كارمن" (Ladii kalba musammaa Carmen). Kalba instead of Kalb cos' Carmen is a female dog. 3) Same with the sister. 4) سود وبيض (Sawda wa bayda). These are the feminine versions of 'aswad and 'abyad. There is no 'aswada or 'abyada. Colors are not conjugated like that. And "waw" should always be connected to the following word. 5) The sentence kinda reads as "I speak English fluently did not speak little Arabic". Maa is used to negate the past tense when used with the past tense verb. Maa takallamtu = I did not speak. Lam is used to negate the past tense when used with the jussive (a shortened present) verb. Lam 'atakallam = I did not speak. Perhaps the sentence could be better written as "أتكلم إنجليزي بطلاقة لكني أتكلم عربي قليل فقط". 6) You're busy ? speak ?. My vocabulary is not good enough to decipher that. Sorry :( 7) Think all the languages should be definite. أتكلم العربية I apologize if I've read any of your sentences wrongly. People much better than I am in Arabic should come around shortly (Kinan, Cetecea, Andrew C etc). They'll do a much better job with your sentences. Probably have something to say about my corrections too. Good luck and keep writing. Edited by strikingstar on 13 February 2011 at 6:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5495 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 43 of 86 13 February 2011 at 2:27pm | IP Logged |
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Congratulations on your first writing in Arabic!
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| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5397 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 44 of 86 14 February 2011 at 7:41am | IP Logged |
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Day 44
24.75 minutes of Arabic TV 30 minutes of FLR 3.3 minutes of Anki Total cards in Anki deck: 278 Hours Studied Today: 0.97 Total Hours: 41.41 Thank you for the corrections strikingstar! The اند should have been عندي but I tried not to look up too much if I thought I could remember how to spell the word I wanted. The last sentence I really do not have enough vocab for myself but I was trying to say that I am busy because I speak many languages, however I did not recall/know the word for languages. As for today, it is the last day of my first week of FLR, so tomorrow I move on to the next three chapters of TY and the next audio example, which will be Unit 2. I attempted to make a video today of my Arabic up to this point, but I am severely lacking in verbs to make a video of any length. I think I will wait a couple of more weeks and then try again. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5397 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 45 of 86 15 February 2011 at 10:51am | IP Logged |
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Day 45
19.1 minutes of Arabic TV 73 minutes of FLR 10 minutes of Anki - added 59 cards Total cards in Anki deck: 337 Hours Studied Today: 1.70 Total Hours: 43.11 I am halfway through my Arabic cycle! Surprisingly, I nearly caught up my average to be at least an hour a day. I feel like I am in a good place right now. I am beginning to understand more of what I hear and can string some very basic sentences together. I was also able to read some of the headlines scrolling by on Al-Jazeera tonight. My next CEFR self-evaluation is 15 days away and hopefully by that time I can cross most of A1 off. My current projections tell me that I should get through my TY book by my final week of this cycle, although I will only be on about Unit 7 with the TY audio. Still, if the progress I have recently been making can keep up I will be very happy with where I end up at the end of this cycle. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5397 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 46 of 86 16 February 2011 at 12:41pm | IP Logged |
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Day 46
88.5 minutes of FLR 8.5 minutes of Anki Total cards in Anki deck: 337 Hours Studied Today: 1.62 Total Hours: 44.73 I finished the first of my three chapters for the week in TY. As I get more into these chapters I am beginning to realize that I will need to spend more time daily in order to get through them in a timely fashion, while still trying to grasp as much as possible. Ultimately the real progress will come when I get to the writing portion of my week. I forgot to watch Al-Jazeera today, however I fell asleep as it was and sitting in front of the TV for twenty minutes probably would have resulted in another nap. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5397 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 47 of 86 17 February 2011 at 11:53am | IP Logged |
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Day 47
7.5 minutes of FLR 4.8 minutes of Anki Total cards in Anki deck: 337 Hours Studied Today: 0.21 Total Hours: 44.94 Today was just a bad studying day. I spent most of the evening either taking care of my bum knee or falling asleep. I plan on getting more sleep during the day today than I have the last few days, so I should be recharged to get more done than usual tonight. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5593 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 48 of 86 17 February 2011 at 1:00pm | IP Logged |
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Hi JPike, I would be interested to know how you feel FLR working out for you. I went and
got the TY books out of the library for Italian but couldn't find the audio. It looks a good method though. Have you seen the gentleman on Youtube (there was a link on here somewhere) who seems to have learnt Croatian to a good level in 3 months with this method. I am very impressed with your Arabic writing. I don't understand any of it but it looks quite alien to me and I think a lot of credit is due to someone who manages to learn the alphabet and characters - so well done! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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