I taught at the Arab American Association today. Three students and I spent part of our session playing card games with my Arabic-English flashcards. It was a great idea, I think—so much fun! The principal game was that a…
Because of poor sound quality, I am getting earaches and headaches from the Arabic III lessons I purchased from Pimsleur reseller PimsleurAudio.com. I am pissed off. I bought the lessons as downloadable files rather than in CD format; it’…
PimsleurAudio.com finally sent me replacement audio files. They are better, but still not of the same quality as the dozens of Pimsleur lessons I have already done in Russian and Arabic. Nonetheless, there is no longer any danger of…
A few days ago I joined Facebook. I don’t know what came over me, but after years of recalcitrance, I did it on a whim while in the office. I was pleased to see that it has Arabic script…
Today I went to Café Margot for my coffee. Soon after I sat down, a woman and her daughter, around five years old, came into the café. The little girl was speaking English. The mother, however, did not look American…
Today I woke up super early. Too early. So I got out my Pimsleur lessons and started doing one in bed, and within a few minutes I was asleep. Thanks once again to Dr. P.—who I think could be…
Although I could have allowed myself to become a lame-duck language learner on the final day of my two-month Russian and Arabic stints, I have so far been good about continuing through to the very end. Today I woke up,…
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