September 18, 2003

Sun Letters and Moon Letters

Well, I’m pretty happy right now. In my Arabic class we’ve learned all 28 letters of the alphabet (which makes Arabic the fourth alphabet that I know) plus a few other ‘letters’ that aren’t officially letters. (Yeah, I don’t get it either… I’m still in the beginning of learning so I am accepting what I hear.) This week we are moving on to the definite article “AL” as in Al Jazeera — the Arab satellite news station. The reason I am so happy is that I’ve already managed to use some of my linguistics skills to help me do my homework and learn a new language.
Note: The rest of this will still be written in this ‘happy with myself’ mood that I’m in. If you don’t like that sort of thing wait two days for the next entry.
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