For the record, that's an Arabic Bible, and while I do have an English/Arabic Quran, the Bible looks cooler. Anyway, I actually did a reading of سورة الأحقاف, Surat al Ahqaf, "The Dunes", while listening to an Arabic and English recitation of the Pickthall Translation. My hard copy is the Maulana Muhammad Ali translation, but it's sort of like reading and hearing two different translations of the Bible, sometimes it helps you to get the concept better than hearing just one word. Plus, the Arabic's the same in both the audio and printed versions. As I have time, I hope to keep using this method. I had a tough time staying caught up with the reading last night, but I was recognizing a lot of words as they were recited, and hopefully practice will make me better able to listen and read along.
Also, I think I may have some redundant flash cards, even though I already went through and tried to yank the redundant ones - that was before I made a bunch more. So yesterday, while I was sitting at the dealership waiting for them to change my oil, but before they showed me that I needed to have a grand worth of work done on my truck, I went through one hundred fifty flash cards - that's thrice what I'd normally try to do and then redo in a day. I didn't find any redundancies, but those would have been in the newer cards anyway, so I'll keep checking at some point this week; however, given that I basically spent about an hour and a half yesterday studying Arabic, I'm going to pass for today.
!شكرا جزيلا - Shukran jazillan! - Thank you very much!
!مع السلامة - Ma al salama! - Goodbye!
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