At the beginning of this summer, I outlined a few goals. Now, it’s time to see how I’ve done. Here we go:<\/p>\n
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1. At the end of the summer, I will be able to read any Arabic news article with relative ease.<\/p>\n
This is somewhat true! It depends on what the topic of the article is, of course, but with relative ease I can read the news in Arabic these days. (I still can’t quite hear the news– those radio newsmen speak way too fast for me).<\/p>\n
2. At the end of the summer, I will be able to hear and piece together conversations without translating in my head. Conversation will become much more natural and I will be able to structure sentences in Arabic without first forming them in English.<\/p>\n
Yep. Conversation is much easier. Even in my english interactions, now, I find myself finding the Arabic word for a concept before I can think of the English word. That’s pretty wack.<\/p>\n
3. At the end of the summer, I will have found an academic advisor in Jordan to help with formulating, specifying, and executing my Fulbright research proposal.<\/p>\n
I, unfortunately, will not be proposing a Fulbright Fellowship research idea. Why? Well– the idea I have is not feasible given the constraints of a single year of field research. So, for that reason, I’ve actually just scrapped the whole application.<\/p>\n
4. At the end of the summer, I will be able to understand the lyrics of Arabic music.<\/p>\n
Ehhhhhhhh this one is tricky. Since songs are often written in the colloquial language, it always depends on who the artist is. For isntance, I can understand Jordanian and Palestinian artists pretty well. Egyptian? Some of it. Morroccan? No chance.<\/p>\n
5. At the end of the summer, I will be able to write in Arabic creatively; beyond simple mechanical sentences and more toward a poetic style of the language.<\/p>\n
Yep. I love playing with Arabic words these days. It’s really fun to stumble upon some rhyming schemes or interesting metaphors that come through the ARabic language only.<\/p>\n
6. At the end of the summer, I will have grown in fluency equivalent to two semesters of intensive Arabic study at Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
Yep. Cheers to Amman and thank you to everyone who was able to make this happen! Ma’a salama! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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