Whoops, where did June go? Despite majorly slacking off on reading the past 2 weeks, I'm still on track (and ahead of schedule for Arabic!).
The English translations on this menu are giving me a great chuckle this morning:
Source:
https://twitter.com/vladadraws/status/1 ... 5434418177June Super Challenge RecapFrench*
Ceux qui ont peur (Dima Wannous, translated by François Zabbal) which I read while listening to the Arabic audiobook
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L'Étranger (Camus) will try to read Kamel Daoud's book today/tomorrow
German*finished
Reckless (Funke)
*began
Der Papiermagier (Holmberg) a book I previously read in English.
Arabic*finished أعجوبة (Wonder, Palacio translated by Ehab Abdel Hamid). A great read, perfectly at my level.
*قبعة رغدة
(تغريد النجار) Easy read, technically a chapter book, but the type was so big I counted 2 pages as 1 for SC purposes.
*random kindle samples
*began وطلع الصباح
(جوزفين مسعود) intended for middle schoolers and includes definitions for rare, tricky words in Arabic. I'm finding it a bit more of a slog than Wonder.
Haven't added in/calculated any of the listening yet:
*A full season of
Cairo Class a drama about Kuwaiti students who have gone to Cairo for university in the 60s.
*The fourth season of
Alexa & Katie without subs. My comprehension has gone way up since the first time I watched this show. Yay progress!
*الكبرياء والهوى (Pride and Prejudice, Austen) audiobook
*Avatar: The Last Airbender
*Various episodes of Moroccan series, looking for a show to focus on.
*Intensive listening/transcription of short episodes of the Moroccan show Salwa w Zoubir (SC-ineligible)
*Lots of BBC radio (SC-ineligible)
I've been going through the Arabic textbooks I bought way back when, mining them for vocabulary and expressions I missed for whatever reason. These books are:
*Assimil's Arabic (claims to bring one to B2)
*Harrap's Arabe Méthode express en 15 minutes par jour ! (also claims to bring one to B2)
*Nathan's Arabe Initiation (claims A2 in 20 days)
Goals for July*Weekly writing about what I've read in Arabic.
*Finish reading through Harrap's Arabe.
*Start active German use again.
*Stay on track!