Getting organized

Since I procrastinated too long when it came to a conversational Spanish or Russian class for the fall semester, I decided to get organized early. The winter session starts in early January and registration begins in November. So I took the placement exam for Spanish online and placed into the 7th semester class (430/500). There is no Russian placement test online though, so I'll have to talk to the instructors about that. And then I'll have to decide which I want to brush up on first (maybe I'll alternate?). Because (assuming I get a passing grade), I want to continue with the Arabic, and I'm not sure I can deal with three night classes in three different languages.

Mea culpa

I've been a bad, bad blogger. I've been posting to my regular blog, but not making an effort to write anything original in Spanish. So, nothing here.

Plus I've been busy with this class I'm taking -- Introductory Arabic I. It's harder to master than Spanish or Russian was, for a variety of reasons. First, it's a part time thing, unlike earlier languages that were studied full time while I was in college. Second, the right to left is utterly unfamiliar, along with an alphabet that doesn't equate to the Phoenician alphabet that the Indo-European languages use. Even with Russian, a lot of the Cyrillic was similar. Not so with the Arabic script...which is quite beautiful, I think.

My new resolution -- translate my other blog into Spanish. Even if it isn't original or the same as writing creatively in Spanish, the translation should give me practice.