Languages

So, I'm currently learning Arabic and Mandarin, along with my twin. It's rather interesting and fun. I'm working on memorizing the alphabet, so, unfortunately, I'm writing it over and over and over again- and will be doing that for a week, until I know it solidly. And I'll be making up flashcards. Apparently, I'm doing fairly well- using my chart, I have better writing that my twin does, and she studied it for a year. But I'm also using my chart, writing individual letters, and she's actually writing words and phrases, from MEMORY. So she wins. In Mandarin, however, it's another story. I'm practicing my characters- and again, I'll probably be spending a few days on the eight characters that I learned, writing them over and over and over and over again, and making flashcards. But I'm mimicing the way to write it decently- well enough to be confused with a ten-year-old's handwriting. (I saw plenty of ten year old's handwriting while there.)

First phrase I learned how to say in Arabic: "Sorry. I don't know Arabic." "Asiif. La alem al Arabia." Spelling is probably WAY off. In return, I taught my twin to say, "Duay bu chi, wo bu dong." "Sorry. I don't understand/know."

Gotta love it.

I think I'm a mental masochistic. I'm learning TWO level five languages- and planning on working on Hebrew and Korean next.

*sighs happily* I love languages.

In other news, I see Squirreltail in 14,120 minutes.

Yes, I've done the math. Yes, I did the math in my head. It's rather simple.