Hi Ayyo

You know me? I learn Arabic. Let me share with you my own story. I was a science student in high school, while the fate chose me to become a language learner. It is such a huge transformation. 

When I started my Arabic learning courses, we started with letters one by one. But at that time I can not pronounce ر r in Arabic. It requires my tongue to viberate fast in a magic way. I never thought toughs can do that. So I started practising while some of my classmates they naturally can vibrate their tough! I practice and practice, when the class began I would go to the teacher and pronounce for her and she is not a good teacher psychologically for she despite us who do not came from big cities. Her answer was always a quick brief "no" with little expression or encouragement. At that time we just began Arabic learning while I felt that I dropped behind from the start. I practiced but when the class began the teacher only ask those who can pronounce ر r to read and then she would revise their pronounciations and tones. While me and some others were left out of the hot group. I still could remenber when someone shouted : سرير أسرة الراحة and some other words with a clear and lasting r~ inside of it.

Then it is almost the same problem with memorising the words. I learnt science in high school where I attribute a large potion of my attention on Physics and Chemistry and Mathematics and I do lack of the skill of memorizing both short-term and long-term. When I saw my classmate memorized فتح الباب بالمفتاح I was so depressed for I would found it so hard to memorize those words. And some time these words would twisted in my head like اخوان واخوة واخوات . When it comes to translating short sentances on spot I can barely memorize the Chinese so how can I translate them to Arabic? Of course I was depressed.

The third barrier is the unsatisfiring teacher. She is local resident in Shanghai while I was from other middle-sized cities inland. Therefore she instinctively think that we are short of sight and stupid. But it turns out that I do have some knowledge and I do not render. She, like lots of big-city females, do in favor of kind and mild and sweety boyish male students while I on the contrary, is a rough tough and vulgar guy with little care about those details. I do not like men who care too much about their skin conditions and flatter the leaders with sweet smiles and words. I like men and women with natural humanity and unshaped characters. Then the different taste combine with cultural differences became a patchwork of factors that leads to the tension between me and the teacher.

So you see the way is not flat. ان طريق دراستي ليس ممتدة لكن ليس عندي اي حل.  ثم فهمتُ انني ليس أتعلم  لحمد الغير, قدرتي هي اتصالات مع متكلمي العربية. غرضي هو أنني أقدر على فهم نية العرب وتعبير تفكيري ومشاعري وتخطيطي ومشاكلي وحلي بالعربية الى العرب. ان الاتصالات مهمة من تقدير التلاميز والاساتذة. ان القدرة هو مهم. فاذا لا أستطيع فهم العرب ففشلت دراستي في العربية, فاذا لا أستطيع تعبير نيتي وشعوري بالعربية ففشلت دراستي. وسوف أفلح اذا أستطيع تعبير نفس وفهم الاخبار والتعليق. فاني عليّ ان اخبرك: ان نتائج الامتحانات ليس متعلقة بجودة دراستك. عليك أن تتبحر في مجرى دراستك في الكورية . اذا عندك مشكلة حفظ المفرادات ثم تكرر فحظها. لا تخافي ولا تخشي. يذهب ضغط الدراسة اذا تدرين انك مختلف من غيرك في الدراسة. انك شخص ذو خلقك المتعين وميلك المختلف وفضلك المتفوق. عليك أن تصبحين تصبرين في اكتشاف أسلوبك في الدراسة. 

وأنا أستطيع ان أقول: ان أحسن الطلبة ليس أقوى الحفظ بل أقوى الفكر.  انك قطعت مسافة أصعب من غيرك فسوف تأخذين أكثر من الأثمار منها تجربة وفهم النفس وثقة بالنفس. عندما تواجه المستقبل, كوني صبورة وحليمة.

صديقك: سليمان