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Hi I'm Erik, I'm a native English speaker from the U.S. I am a software engineer and a computer science PhD student. I would like to learn Arabic and French.
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Ayman Fawy
Arabic
Dec 23, 2018
It was very nice talking to you. All my best wishes to you in learning Arabic.
Abdul Waheed
Pashto
Dec 22, 2018
Erik is learning too quickly. I hope very soon he can do conversation.
lama
Arabic
Dec 1, 2017
Eriks Level of Arabic and his personality makes it always a pleasure talking to him and he is really smart and capable of making an amazing progress in a short time
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  • Commented

    Hi Israa, I can help you with English if you can help me with Arabic

    يمكنني مساعدتك لإنجليزية إذا قمت بمساعدتي عربية

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    December 24, 2018
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  • Answered
    I can't explain why, but it would sound better to say: I don't think I've made my point.
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    December 10, 2018
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  • Answered
    "two cents" is slang for opinion. "Add your two cents" means tell us your opinion on the issue. When I tell you something I think, I can finish with "but that's just my two cents."
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    December 9, 2018
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  • Posted
    Arabic Infinitive and Future Tense Title correction: **Present Perfect, not Infinitive Please excuse the typing, I do not have an Arabic keyboard If I want to say "I am studying" do I use the infinitive verb, or the conjugated one. Example: ana 3n bedros or ana 3n ydros Same question for future tense: ana soof bedros or ana soof ydros
    December 7, 2018
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  • Commented

    Hey <a ui-sref="user({id:comment.commenter_obj.id})" href="https://www.italki.com/user/1284193" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kiwibyrd</a>

    Can you PM me where you find serious Arabic language partners?

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    December 5, 2018
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  • Commented
    Asmaa, it does help me with my goals especially since I don't know of any other website where I can find people who want to exchange languages.  Being able to pay a teacher for an hour of one-on-one instruction is better than buying an entire course from a university or something where I'm stuck with 10 other people learning whatever the teacher decides is worth learning.
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    December 5, 2018
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  • Commented

    Italki is great at putting you in contact with people who have similar goals, but at the end of the day, it's still people you're dealing with.  People have things come up in life, different motivations, different daily lives.  I think most native English speakers don't have as compelling reasons to learn another language as the ones who want to learn English, so we can often be unreliable language partners.  

    There's other things that contribute to the kind of language partners you can find.  If I want to learn Arabic, I have no motivation to be language partners with a Norwegian speaker.  Because of time zones, most of my ideal language partners are sleeping when I get off work, or working when I'm waking up, making Skype sessions at a reasonable hour impossible.

    Language partners are human, subject to human flaws, and this website can only help you find people, it can't make those people perfect partners.

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    December 5, 2018
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  • Commented
    Hi Wathqan, I'm happy to be language partners with you. Always looking for help in Arabic and happy to help you with English
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    December 4, 2018
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  • Answered
    18:38 "oh and four" oh like zero.. He should have said "oh for four." It means he's had 4 chances to win and failed all of them. 20:18 "path of least resistance" but he did not say it clearly. Path of least resistance means "the easiest way" to do something. He was saying that the others in the group will get rid of him because he is the easiest one to get rid of.
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    December 4, 2018
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  • Commented
    Honestly, I started learning Arabic because my girlfriend at the time was Arab (My fiancee now).  Now I love the language and love learning languages.  I bet many of us started a similar way but won't admit it ;P
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    December 4, 2018
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