It’s been a long time that I haven’t talk about learning Arabic because I’ve been sharing my sports activities like basketball and volleyball games or my daily life.

But this week, I’d like to share some Arabic stuff.

After learning Arabic for a few months, I discovered that the most difficult part is to learn its grammar rule. There’re so many rules that you have to keep in mind and could drive you crazy, you might be shouting” what the hell!” or cursing of it every time when you’re studying it.

Take the verbs for example, we have to add different Arabic letters in the front of the verb in different situations. To describe it in a simple way, we have to know “who” do this action and add different letters. You may not understand it due to my awful description, but it’s really annoying, making you feel confused and don’t want to talk about it( just exactly what I’m doing now).

By the way, my foreign teacher from Syria speaks English in a very funny accent and also a high voice, it’s not pretty polite to say so, but it makes me laugh all the time.

Last week was a terrible week. First, we have a freshman volleyball contest against the 資管 department, but it had been postponed for two times due to the rain. It really annoyed me because I’m eager to play the game and I don’t like to keep waiting for a long time. I’m really gone out of my patience.

The second terrible thing is the raining days. Though I’m from Taipei, I still hate the non-stop rain in NCCU, because when it’s raining, our skin feels much colder than the exactly temperature is, and it’s easy for us to catch a cold. Worst of all, we may get ourselves all wet by being swashed.

To sum up, I really want to have a good weather to maintain a sunny day, so that we can play the ball game without getting wet. And hope my department can win the game to rise in rank in the next level.

These two weeks were horrible to me.

First, I hurt my ankle again when I was practicing playing basketball on Saturday. Though I got my ankle protected with some protection, but unfortunately, I heard something weird and loud while I was defending. Suddenly, I couldn’t run and could hardly to walk, there were no doubt that I had to go down the court and sit down to check if my ankle were ok. It really sucks that you’re a person who enjoys playing sports and loves playing matches, but you can’t participate anything.

The second reason is that I have to prepare for the mid-term exam. The Arabic language may looks interesting because of its look, but learning it is pretty hard. We have to remember some strange nouns, verbs, and most horrible of all, the grammar rules. When trying to keep those rules in mind, the only you feel will be your brain’s getting hotter and hotter and feeling like going to explode. But I have to be responsible to my schoolwork, so I think I should study harder. But I think that I’m lying because I hate reviewing again and again. And I haven’t been studying hard since 學測.

But I still want to pass all of the subjects.

Hi every one. In these two weeks, I would like to share something different from learning Arabic, I want to talk about a volleyball match. In that match, I represent my department to play the game against the opponent. After we won the first game, and our team just started continuously scoring in the second game, I hurt my ankle because I stepped on my teammate’s foot. It happened in a sudden that I could hardly take a reaction to protect myself, and I could not stand up at that moment, I could do nothing except sitting on the ground waiting for my teammates to give me a hand. Fortunately, I was helped by my teammates quickly so I did not get hurt worse.

At first, I did not think that my ankle was hurt that bad. But after several hours, it swelled so badly that really shocked me. At that time, my ankle looked really scary, so I went to the doctor to get some medicine and treatment. And today, three days after I hurt my ankle, I finally feel a lot better, and I wish that I will not hurt it anymore. 

In the last week, our foreign teacher, who is from Syria, finally got to Taiwan .He is short, bald and have an special accent in speaking English, but he’s absolutely a nice man because he is both pretty funny and humor.

In his classes, the whole class keeps practicing the pronunciation of the alphabets, key words and the sentences. At first, it’s really tiring for us to speak in the right way, but after a few days, we gradually got used to it, though we could not always pronounce in the perfect way.

And let’s talk about what happened in the class. In the first class, because he did not  know what our Arabic names are, so he asked each of us the same question” kaeyfa ha lu kou “ which means “what’s your name” in Arabic . Most of my classmates got compliments, but one of my friends did not , because our teacher said that his name is an ancient name, and that really made my friend did not know whether to laugh or to cry.

To conclude, it was a nice week after all. :)

    

The first two weeks in nccu was very nice, I have got used to the life here and also made some friends. And now let me talk about the progress about how I learn Arabic in these two weeks.

Let’s start at the first week. When I first meet Arabic, teachers taught us how to pronounce Arabic alphabets, and how to write them. However, all of us could tell that it’s hard for people to learn a foreign language, so I had a terrible time practicing the pronunciation and the method to write them, especially some of the letters look alike, and to describe their looks, they look like worms tying knots together, which means it’s very difficult to distinguish them.

In the second week in nccu, there were both nice and horrible parts. Nice part was that after practicing speaking Arabic for few days, I finally could speak very little Arabic, just in pronouncing words, not to recognize the meaning of each word. But the horrible part was that sometimes teachers thought the whole class knew everything they taught, so they began to speed up and teach the harder parts. At that time I often feel sleepy and start to nod, but fortunately, I never fell asleep in class.

   To sum up, I think that the two weeks were both ok, haha .