So far behind

It's been too long between classes and my laziness has caught up with me. I'm so far behind and floundering in this next class that I probably would've been better to repeat the last one before moving on. Ouch.

Random information: watched The Kingdom last week. Not really impressed with the movie as a whole. Could catch numbers and a few words in Arabic -- greetings, thanks, etc. Was very impressed by Ashraf Barhoum.

Menu items

Had dinner at Zaytinya last night. Review at my regular LJ. Cool thing? On the regular menu, the items are listed in English and in Arabic script. Enjoyed sounding the words out.

Is there a theme?

The Spanish Word of the Day emails seem to get caught in my spam filter, so I'll go without then get a week's worth all at once. Must've been a theme, because I got the following in quick succession this morning:

• quechua -- the most widely spoken indigenous language of South America; in school I was forever confusing quechua with Mayan quiché (k'iche'). Hmm, I did not know that one of the words it bestowed upon Spanish and English was la cocaína.
• euskera -- Basque language
• catalán -- didn't realize this was spoken in Sardinia, must learn more.

I didn't see emails for galego, aranés, or asturianu, though.

Arabic IV starts next week. I'm feeling quite unprepared since I was a total slacker all fall. Must dust off the books.