As I've written in my last post, I have been trying to learn Arabic lately with the help of my neighbor. Here are a few words that I remember from our lessons.
HA-I-LA : family
BA-BA : father
U-MI : mother
AW-LAD : children
JAD : grandfather
JAD-AH : grandmother
BI-LAD : country
HARB : war
MAWT : dead
HA-ZEN : sad
MA-FI : none; don't have
ZI-YA-DA : many (same as KA-THIR)
SHUF : look
SHU-HAY : what is this?
O-HEB : like or love.
Our lessons are actually just small talk/chat, nothing formal. My neighbor and I are both stay-at-home-moms so we have quite a few topics to talk about.
I learned Arabic faster by talking with a native speaker than in the school. I'm not discouraging those who want to enroll in Arabic Language classes though. It is because I already know a few Arabic words from school that I am able to understand some of the words my "teacher" is saying. I only attended 2 introductory lessons, and even if I wanted to attend the succeeding lessons, time and money became a bit scarce so I was forced to put the lessons on hold.
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