my first russian class hello there, today i had my first russian class and i learned the basics of the alphabet... the past two days i took arabic classes and today russian because i wish to learn a language with a different alphabet than my own, i noticed that although my teacher(Svetlana) told me that my pronounciation was good it seemed way harder to remember the sounds of specific letters because of their written similarities with the alphabet i know but such different sounds from what i know... the overlap of the two language will cause some delay in the initial learning curve and may cause some confusion but it seems doable with practice. on the other hand, arab is 100% new symbols which simply need to be associated with the sounds... this makes it easier than russian in my opinion. This has brought me to think that maybe japanese is easier than i thought... i will soon expose myself to that and comment on it.

my first arabic class hello there, yesterday i took my first arabic class... it was also my first italki skype session... i was bored and went on the instant tutoring and found an arabic teacher right off the bat--- this can be a very hard language because of the alphabet so i'm still getting used to it i didnt really learn anything new conversation-wise because my teacher is trying to show me the alphabet first but he did teach me al salam and how to write it. TODAY, today i practiced the alphabet by myself with some apps i download for free on my iPad and i saw the teacher on the instant tutoring area so i decided to have another class. today i felt more immersed in the class since i had a feel for some of the letters and he was teaching me how to write some words... although my vocabulary is completely inexistent in this language i feel as if i will soon be able to read it fluently. writing it will take a bit more time but also seems possible. I will continue to do these classes for some time but i know i will soon have to stop them because of school. i feel very excited about this language. ma3a assalamah (goodbye)