So today is my last day of English!!!!!! I am terrified- not really, but sorta. Don't worry, I can keep this blog in English, and skype in English, but I can't speak in English at all other than to home after tonight. Yikes!
The hard part is that I don't speak ammiya which is dialect, I only speak fus-ha which is Modern Standard Arabic. A lot of people here don't really speak fus-ha very well. Some of the differences are small, but some words are quite different. It's not so much that they are completely different languages, but more so that they use different words for the same thing. For example, in ammiya, to say 'yes' one would say 'aiwa' but that is more like 'yeah' and in fus-ha one would say 'nam' which is actually 'yes'. Also to say 'thank you' in ammiya one would say ' yeslamu yidak (or yidik to a woman) or يسلمو يدك' which means 'bless your hands' but in fos-ha one would say 'shukran or شكرا'. so as you see, there are many differences, but it is more different words than different languages.
oops! I'm late for meeting my friend to go to the gym!
I'll write more later.
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