Day 127

Monday May 26th

Today I took the writing part of my fusha test and my colloquial test. Most of the time for writing samples, I like to take the safe route and not write down anything I am not absolutely sure about. But this time, I went all out, trying to use many different words and constructs and playing around with the grammar. My spelling is bad in very language so hopefully that didn't carry over too much. I think that all my problems with languages are connected. The fact that I have trouble spelling words means I have trouble pronouncing, meaning I have trouble speaking and therefore trouble listening. After 4 months in Cairo, I shouldn't have as much trouble as I do with pronouncing words. Anyways, Colloquial went fine, I understood all the grammar concepts he wanted me to cover, I just don't think my pronunciation was all that good. Tomorrow is the grammar/reading/vocab for Fusha. It should go smoothly.