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Hey, how's it going?

Thank you!

Yeah my exams finally finished last Friday and I handed in my last assignment today. I also found out that my biology assignment was the last ever bio assignment I'm ever going to have to do and that makes me happy. My exams were okay, I think I did well on them. I know for math I got a pretty good result and weirdly enough, on the assignment that I only have finished I somehow got the highest mark so that doesn't really make sense but neither does math I suppose.

Gotta love formal meetings, I don't know if I actually ever have a formal meeting cause I'm not on the formal committee but formal is in like five months so plenty of time to figure out what's happening for it anyway. I can't believe I'm going to be out of school forever in five months.

Btw how have you been? I saw your happy days thread though and I am happy to read that!

Oh thank you so much Sue!!

That's cool you know 2 languages well and learning a third. Spanish is so good to know here. We have a lot of Spanish speakers, mainly Hispanics and workplaces like hospitals and human services always prefer the workers to know Spanish. Also a Chinese dialect us good to know for similar reasons. Because I look mixed, peiple can't tell where I'm from. I've gotten Israeli, Russian, Uzbeki, hispanic/Latina anD sometimes very specific like Mexican lol. There's a man in my building who kept calling me Pablo, so obnoxious -.-
But there had been many Hispanics who asked me if I speak Spanish because they would need help with directions abd I'd feel bad that I couldn't help. Or they would want to know just curious to see if that's something we share in common.
One time someone asked me for a lighter (or a cigarette...I actually didnt understand fully but he was looking to smoke) in Spanish then we ended up talking and stuff and he told me it is shocking that I'm not Latina.

Now that I think of it, j want to learn all the languages you've listed! German is fun. I mean I know a little Yiddish and there's German mixed into that language abd I took German fairytales si we learned some German words. I also learned so much Latin and Greek without realizing just by taking many science classes lol!
Ketchup, sourkraut and kindergarten are all German words.
Also Munich University has a giant slide so I officially want to do my masters there.
I haven't learned MSA in the end. I feel like i learn better with a live teacher. I learned a lot when my sister taught me the alphabet. She went to Morocco for study abroad and learned MSA in her class as well as was exposed to the Moroccan dialect which is mixed with Burbur
The arabid alphabet is similar to the Hebrew alphabet but the letters look different. In Hebrew there's some letters that look different if it is the last letter of the word than if it was in the middle of the word of the beginning. In Arabic, there's that too but there's beginner middle and end. I'm not sure if it is for every letter but I think a lot more than the Hebrew alphabet.

I get to go on a free trip called Birthright for 10 days in Israel. I'm not gonna go because they kind of have propaganda embedded in their trip program and I'm not into that. I have strong political views when it comes to this and I know many people would accuse me of being antisemitic which is ridiculous but I love the organization called Jewish Voice for Peace. Anyway, if you're interested abd don't care much about the proppganda they try to sell you, see what the birthright eligibility requirements are. I think you need to have at least one parent who is Jewish but it is possible that it is just a recommendation and really allows anyone interested. Not 100% sure.

Hey! Thanks, I had them saved for ages but didn't know when to use them but I guess now is that time. I'm doing pretty good, currently in exam block so a bit stressed but other than that I'm good. How are you?

How did you do in CAE? I hope its good.

I hope you are feeling better and things are turning better for you.

Hey, I just wanted to say hi and have a great day. Hugs

I speak primarily English but Arabic is lIke the language my dad speaks so I'm good at understanding when I hear it but can't read or write and I'm very shy to speak so I answer in English when spoken to in Arabic. With French, I lived in the French speaking part of Canada for sone time and there I spoke French eith ease but when I came to the USA at age 5 and went to school, I forgot French and learned English and Hebrew. Thrn in high school I took French as a foreign language requiescent and learned it formally how to conjugate verbs and whatnot.



It is called Levant arabic which is the Arabic that Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian spesk. Maybe Iraq and Jordan too. I forget.

I've considered learning MSA for reading and writing and then sharping my speaking and listening skills in Levantians Arabic.
My dad has cousins in Syria still. He has a sister in Lebanon and a brother who moves around a lot and I think now are living in Lebanon too. Then 2 more brothers live here and 1 brother lives in Canada, the English speaking part.
My mom has relatives who've scattered between the Canada, France, Israel and I think those who still lived in Lebanon have died already. Even the ones who've moved to Israel have died or are alive but very old and ive never met them.And I call it Israel because my mom's side is Jewish and lived on the Israeli part of the Israel/Palestine region.
I haven't been but I want to so badly!