Arabic Studies

The real reason we came to Jordan is to take some more Arabic classes. It's been about five years since we were in language school. We've been feeling the need to both review and fill in some holes in our Arabic.

We planned to do it during Ramadan when there weren't many classes happening at the institute where Tim teaches.

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Studying Arabic...again!

I have started taking Arabic classes at an institute in our city. Now that the kids are in preschool I feel a little more free to put some of my time and energy into improving my Arabic. This bit of extra time is limited because I'll be homeschooling Joseph next year.

This time is a gift and I need to make the most of it. Even though I know this in my head, it doesn't make learning Arabic any easier. This is such a hard language!

I've been thankful for God's grace as I've started studying again. I continue to pray that He will help me to love this language. When I'm really enjoying it, I'm more motivated to work at it!

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I'm thankful for Arabic

I love this beautiful language that we are learning! Arabic is so difficult and so much fun to learn. I enjoy making connections when I talk with my Arab friends. Sometimes I learn a new word when I'm with my friends and I rush home to look in the dictionary to get a better grasp of what it means.

There are some letters/sounds in Arabic that don't exist in English. It's always so funny to me when I'm trying to teach my kids these sounds!

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Teaching Joseph the Arabic Alphabet

Joseph is learning two alphabets right now, English and Arabic. He seems to be doing pretty well with the English alphabet and he knows a few of the Arabic letters too.

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