2026-02-13
9 分钟You know, I've been struggling recently with my Arabic, and I'm going to talk a bit about that,
and why I've come to the realization that in order to become fluent in a language,
you have to change your focus.
I have done this in the past, I'm going to do it in Arabic, and I'll explain to you what I mean.
So, we all know, or I've said before,
that when we start in a new language, there is that initial period of achievement,
triumph, where learning something new, which is always stimulating for the brain,
we all of a sudden understand certain things.
There's a lot of high frequency vocabulary.
So we're kind of climbing a steep hill, but we're getting that sense of getting somewhere.
And then we realize that actually it's a long, long road.
There are a lot of words to learn, a lot of low frequency words to learn.
It takes a long time for the brain to get used to a new language,
even if we understand certain rules of grammar or we understand in theory how the new writing system works.
It takes a long time for the brain to get used to these things.
So with my Arabic, unlike say Persian, where I had a lot of interesting content,
some of it prepared by our tutor at Link Sahra on the history of Iran and different aspects of the culture of Iran.
With Arabic, I've kind of bounced around from standard Arabic to Egyptian Arabic to 11th Arabic.
And I haven't been able to find that same kind of interesting content that I had for Persian,
for whatever reason.