Goal…
Talking to Shaden today, I realized that I suck at carrying a full conversation in Arabic…a prime factor is the fact that I was raised and grew up in a non-Arab country. Though my parents always stressed the importance of speaking Arabic at home, English was always the dominant language…I can speak Arabic very well, I believe, but it’s just very difficult to carry on a majority of a conversation in Arabic. I tried and I failed..but I will try again so my goal for the next two days is to speak with my parents, my sisters, my nephews and nieces (despite the fact that some of my nephews and nieces have an Arabic dialect that sounds like a different language of its own - Iraqi…it’s my sister-in-law’s fault), my brothers-in-law (though some of them are just like me if not worst when it comes to Arabic speaking skills :P) and Arab friends in Arabic only.
