Help! O.O So, I have missed my Arabic class for two days now because I did not feel well on Monday and Today I had to take my computer to get fixed. So i emailed a classmate to get the homework and see what I missed. She tells me: We talked about the different groupings of letters based on the letter (like the second, third, fourth letters are all in the same group, only the dots are different), and practiced those. If there is no fatha, kasra, damma over alif (first letter), waw, or yah (last two letters) that means that it is playing theh role of a vowel, not a consonant. We all wrote our names in Arabic, and our homework was to practice that along with two handouts she gave us. We talked about new accents based on some handouts, (hamzah, shadda, madda, briefly talked about tanwiin's) and practicing some basic speaking. Homework is to do the exercises on pages 39, 40 and to copy, learn and memorize all the phrases listed in the tables in chapters 1 and 2. Then she adds... So you definitely missed a good chunk of work, and it's definitely the kind of stuff you should have someone explain to you rather than try to do it yourself. So good luck, and hope you feel better! The Teaching Assistant/Tutor is only available on Mondays from 6-8 and the professor is only available 11:30-2 on Mondays and Wednesdays. But my next class is Friday (here it is wednesday).... I am calling out for help! I haven't even been able to memorize the alphabet yet, but that's not going to happen in a day. I don't want to be completely lost, though, or look really stupid in class. So help!