{"id":181,"date":"2015-06-03T00:25:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/?p=181"},"modified":"2015-06-03T00:25:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:25:48","slug":"more-arabic-and-more-strange-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oman.victorreynolds.net\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"More Arabic and More Strange Creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m making a short post just to share a few photos. Today we had practice with our conversation partners, and I spoke only in Arabic for about three hours. I can feel a bit of a shift happening, but it’s still pretty difficult to me. Of course it’s not really reasonable for me to expect myself to suddenly find speaking and understanding Arabic easy after only doing it seriously like this for a week.<\/p>\n

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My new method of trying to quickly remember new words…<\/p><\/div>\n

Khalil has a cheap classical guitar that he is letting me borrow (it was on the top of the cabinets in one of the classrooms), so I’m very happy about that. I made a pick out of a water-bottle cap. I know classical guitar isn’t supposed to be played with a pick, but I’m hoping to play some non-classical songs at a Cultural Night later, so I’m making to with what I have.<\/p>\n