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.