Week 3

This is the third week. On Monday, I met Naima in the class and she told me that she doesn't have her phone and that's why she didn't come. But still we didn't work in that day. Therefore, I got an idea which is talking to one of my friends who is really interesting in learning Arabic. I asked her about if she still wants to learn Arabic. And if so, I will talk to Naima about if she still can't work. And depending on that, I will decide whether I will work with both of them or work with only the new girl and Naima will work by herself on another project that she decide. So that I will teach Arabic but to another girl. I guess that this will be the solution to save my project.
This new girl is Mariela. She is very nice girl and she wants to help me on my project and she is willing to learn Arabic, therefore she is going to be my new student.
On Tuesday, we met after school and we put a new timeline for the project, depending on what she wants to learn. We worked for about an hour on some of the basic phrases. And that was her entry to the Arabic.
My new timeline will be like this:

• The first thing to do is teaching Mariela how to write her name!
• During October and November, we will work on the eight parts of speech.
• During December we will work on the letters and numbers. At the same time Mariela would like to learn about the Arabic traditions, so we will work on that too.
• During January and February, we will work on writing. It will take two months because writing in Arabic is really hard, especially that Arabic is very tough language so it will take more time.
• In March, we will work on the pronunciation. Especially that the Arabic is different from other languages, so it’s important to know how to pronounce the words correctly. And the best thing that Mariela is the one who wants that.
• During April, we will be working on other words.

Mariela is a good student and a good listener! She said that she liked the Arabic and she is really excited to learn it through out the year. We will meet twice a week except if something will happen so that will make us work only once.. but we still have enough time.
The first lesson was really fun and we both had a nice time.