Over the previous two weeks, I’ve gotten a number of emails and messages from completely different readers who’ve requested: Can I exploit your Anki deck ?! I don’t have time to make my very own.
Truthfully, I get it.
As a lot as I am #teamAnki, on the finish of the work week, and even merely on the finish of the work day, generally one of many final issues I’ve time to do is create new playing cards for my Anki deck.
Whereas I am not likely able to share my total private Anki deck with the world but, I needed to begin sharing sentences I choose up throughout the week whereas immersing, in an effort to add new sentences to your deck too regardless of how busy your schedule is.
As a result of if it is between not making any new playing cards this week, and simply including these 7, not less than now you’ll be able to study one new sentence per day.
In the end, the purpose of utilizing Anki is in order that we cease straight translating from English to Arabic, and in order that we begin to converse in ways in which native speaks categorical themselves.
With that in thoughts, I’ve accompanied every sentence with a proof that spotlight the ways in which English and Arabic differ in expressing easy phrases.
[Bonus: These are all sentences I heard in from Icerde, my new favorite tv show. ๐ ]
Day 1
Is it sufficient to satisfy the promise?
However what concerning the appointment?
When you search for the phrase “ู ูุดูุงู” it means as a result of or because of.
That is not the case on this contexts. On this sentence and in sentences the place you are making an attempt to inquire concerning the standing of one thing, “ู ูุดูุงู” means about.
Day 2
.ู ูู ูููู ุตูุจููู ููุฎู
Perhaps he is set a entice for you.
To precise “setting a entice”, you should use “ุตูุจ ููุฎ” collectively.
Whereas โุตูุจโ technically means to โpourโ, on this context it means โto setโ.
โููุฎโ is all the time a entice.
Day 3
.ุชูุฌูุงููุฒุชู ุญูุฏูููุฏู
You have crossed the road. / You have overstepped your boundary.
That is used to explain when somebody has taken an inappropriate motion and must again off. This sentence is definitely a superb instance of how English and Arabic categorical an thought in an almost an identical method.
Day 4
What’s the title of the thing?
What is that this factor known as?
Arabic doesn’t use the verb โto be / isโ as continuously as we do in English.
So we English audio system can get distracted on the lookout for the phrase โisโ so as to perceive the which means of the phrase.
In most sentences, like this one, the โisโ is implied, however not explicitly written / spoken.
As an alternative, give attention to the primary verb of the sentence to seek out out the sentence’s which means. On this case, it is ุณูู ููู or “to be named”.
Day 5
.ุงูุง ุนูู ุงุฎูุฏ ู ูู ููููุชููู ูุชูุฑ
I’m taking over loads of your time.
See that ูุชูุฑ comes on the finish of the sentence right here and never within the center as it will in English.
Day 6
ููุญููู ููุด ุนูู ููุญูููู ุนุงูููุงูููุ
ู Why are we speaking [while] standing?
In English, we nearly by no means begin a query with a pronoun, like this sentence does with utilizing โููุญูููโ. However I hear native audio system do that on a regular basis.
Pay attention out for that in your immersion so that you just begin to get used to the distinction.
Day 7
.ุงูุฎูุชูุฑูุนุช ุดูุฎูุต
I invented a character. / I created a false identification.
Take notice how little phrases you really want right here to precise an thought that may take 4 or 5 phrases in English, however takes solely 2 in Arabic.
At all times preserve that in thoughts.
As a result of verbs could be conjugated to establish gender and tense, there may be often a a lot shorter approach to categorical what you are making an attempt to say in Arabic.
The Predominant Takeaway
In brief, add these sentences to your Anki deck and simply begin swiping on them. They will all the time be stickier to recollect the extra you immerse, so don’t forget about that too. Most of all, give your self some grace. You are in your method!
Meet me within the chat. Which new sentences are you studying this week?
