I just had my first lesson since I got back, it went well. I was a little afraid since I hadn’t really done any Arabic for a couple of months. I read the stuff well enough, the only trouble I had was with new words (and that’s natural). The cool thing was that I was starting to to pick out what form the words I didn’t know were in. Were they a gerund, a participle, or the noun form? I’m getting there… I’ve asked Mahmoud to drill me on the forms that the verbs can come in, it feels like not having that knowledge is now holding me back. I’m dreading it a bit, memorization has never been one of my strong suits, but it’s time to buckle down and “get” this. Onwards and upwards!
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