I was using the textbook known as Al-Kitab about 6 or 8 months ago. At the time I had switched from using the school’s all Arabic books to Al-Kitab. A lot of the new book was in English and I thought that my Arabic reading skills were really going downhill by using it, so I stopped and used other things. Well, I decided to go back to a more structured approach and so I am with Al-Kitab again. I had stopped around chapter 5 or 6 but my teacher figured that I was a little more advance than that. I thought so too, I mean c’mon, I’m reading newspaper articles, surely I can skip a handful of chapters right?
Wrong.
We jumped in at chapter 13 and I am totally lost. I am having trouble sorting out the subject from the direct object, let alone know what the sentences are talking about. I gave up on my homework (which is why I’ve had time to type a few blog posts) about 40 minutes into it. Tomorrow I’m going to tell my teacher that we’re going back to chapter 6. I’ve never really about it before, but newspapers are written pretty simply, things are much more complicated in other types of writing. I think that I’ll get through this first book (there are three in the series) without too much trouble, or time. I’m totally functional when it comes to reading and writing in basic terms, and I have a useful vocabulary. In’Shalla I’ll be making progress once again….