Tribe.net. Local Connections Czarina http://arabe.tribe.net/thread/78323135-391b-460d-80df-28de00d7b133#e5206f0f-e6e8-472f-9371-2e4c899aa1f5 2007-08-11T05:43:31Z 2007-08-11T05:43:31Z

I'm in a summer intensive course at UC Berkeley. it's the entire first year, crammed into 8 weeks of daily instruction. (all of Alif Baa plus Al-Kitaab.) We're currently in week 7, going into chapter 15 of Al-Kitaab I should be studying right now in fact.

Czarina 2007-08-11T05:43:31Z Kylie http://arabe.tribe.net/thread/78323135-391b-460d-80df-28de00d7b133#657ea1fa-81aa-4d34-bfcf-4a143d9f4fbf 2007-07-25T02:31:21Z 2007-07-25T02:31:21Z

It sure is quiet around here, eh? You must all have your noses in your books. So has anyone found any good resources lately? Tried any interesting study ideas? I've been trying to start a study / practice group here in Denver. There used to be one organised through meetup . com but it got too expensive so the organiser quit. They now want $19 for the first month, to allow you to set up a group through their website. That's a bit more than I'm willing to front on an idea that may or may not take off. I went to university classes for MSL for almost 2 years and got discouraged because after that I still couldn't have a decent conversation, so I'm taking a break from that, and trying to use books & CDs etc that give me some conversational skills. One friend that I met with lately has done a lot of linguistics studies. He learned ways of learning languages as a survival skill - like, what to do if your airplane breaks down and you parachute into totally foreign country where you don't know the language at all. Interesting. So anyway, enough about me - what are you all doing out there? I'd like some motivation here!

Kylie 2007-07-25T02:31:21Z