Back to School - Learning Arabic!!

Since I have been jobless for sometime and sitting at home only makes me think more about the sadness of the past... I decided to do something about it... keep the mind fresh! :D

I love learning new languages... have tried my hand at French several times before but always ended in not being able to complete even the beginners level.. sigh

But now since I am here in the UAE I decided to try and see how Arabic is (helps making my job prospects better too) :D

So I have joined Eton Institute for the intensive Arabic starter level. So far so good.. have completed one week today and have 2 more weeks to go. Its quite interesting and not as tough as I thought it would be. I can barely read right now but hope to be able to speak decent amount before the end of this year.. :) so am planning to continue it even if I do get a job soon. (considering the fact that to be able to reach a decent level I need to complete 8 levels! :O)

Seeing strange letters making sense now gives me a sense of accomplishment which I am sure would only increase as the classes go by.. :) hope it will give me a confidence boost as well! :D

I know a lot of people say that now that the world has moved to online learning one should not waste time on physical classes. Rather take classes online to save time and also to be able to work as per ones own timetable, but I am a strong advocate of taking lessons from an actual person. There are certain nuances of a language you can only learn through human interaction. Like the difference in the pronunciations of haa & ha.. yep they are 2 different Arabic letters representing the sound the letter H has in English apart from the 6-8 different sounds that can be made from them. lol

But apart from everything else, I really feel it gives your classes a more serious feel. You interact with others in the class and learn with them creating a sort of synergy that otherwise if you do it alone you would not be able to....

Don't you agree? something to think about...

New City... Not so new woes...

So we moved to Dubai quite recently... even though it was a good decision from my husbands career point of view... I am jobless once again.

Sitting at home doing the laundry, cooking, cleaning, cooking..... etc etc doing everything like a good housewife yet feeling hollow inside... is this what I signed up for? agreed I love my husband very much and would not stay without him... but I had an amazing job back in Kenya... I got that job after sitting at home for about a year... I loved working... I loved the company the people the work... but now there is only this empty feeling.

I dont feel like doing anything the whole day.. just sit and look for jobs... and when one doesnt get a call from a single company in over 2 months its kind of depressing.

The same old fights have started again on whether or not I am looking for a job seriously.. what is it that I do the whole day? why am I not getting calls for interviews...??? so many questions that I dont know the answer to... and I hate it!

I am hoping to start an Arabic course soon... hopefully that would take away a lot of my time and help me develop my skills enough to get a job here. I always thought that somehow Dubai would be easier.... sigh...