Week 10

The first semester is over, and a new semester came. This week is the second week of the second semester but the tenth week since I have started my project.  This week was shorter than other weeks because we did not have school on Monday.  during this week  I could not work with Mariela for some reason, but I worked with Monica, but for only short time.
Now I know what is the hard part that Monica is struggling with and stands in her way to speak Arabic, Which is that she can't say all what she learned from her memory and most of the phrases she doesn't know what they mean if she does not have the list in front of her so she can read them.  Because in the list, the phrases are in Arabic and in English.  I made the flash cards but I did not give them to any of the girls yet.  But now I think that Monica needs the flash cards so hopefully that will help her know the phrases better than when she reads them from the list.
I kinda of having the same thing when it comes to memorize words, but to be honest I am better than my students.  For example, I took French before and I did memorize phrases very well, also I know some phrases in Japanese that my uncle's wife taught me.  Actually she did the same that I am doing with my students but the difference is that she taught me only once about twenty phrases and I practiced them by my self. Beside that I can count to ten in Japanese.  And the good thing that I still remember some of them after more than 4 years!!  Also I learned some phrases in Turkish by myself, while I have watched Turkish series that are translated to Arabic!!  That might be the reason that I don't think that learning some phrases in a new language is very hard.
Now it's February 13,14, and I have decided to finish working on the phrases within the next couple weeks.  Then I will teach them the alphabet and the numbers.  And the rest of the days, I might teach them some random words.