Homework

My homework for Arabic was to write a paragraph.  Here is my attempt. 

اسمي سارة و انا من امريكاة انا طويلة و عندي عينان اخضرتان و شعر بني عندي اخ و اختان و قطتان في امريكاة انا مدريسة و طالبة في ابو ظبي عندي بيت كبير و سيارة جديدة و صغيرة وهي ابيضة و نظيفة ابا لا غنية و انا لا فقيرة اشتقت ل امريكاة و ابي و امي و اخي و اختاني

Read from right to left this says:

My name is Sara and I am from America. I am tall and I have green eyes and brown hair. I have one brother and two sisters and two cats in America. I am a teacher and a student in Abu Dhabi. I have a big house and a small, new, car and it is white and clean. I am not rich and I am not poor. I miss America and my father and my mother and my brother and my sisters.

I am pretty sure that there are mistakes in spelling and agreement with nouns and adjectives, Arabic adjectives have to agree in number and gender with their nouns, so since I am female all adjectives need to be feminine in gender. It's a difficult rule to apply. Then there's the one where the adjectives have to agree in number, so if I want to say I have green eyes I really have to say I have eyes greens (since adjectives come after nouns). It's weird and I forget that one more often, then making adjectives agree in gender. Despite the fact that I know there are mistakes, I think it's a pretty good paragraph.



So I guess you could say I'm making progress!  I think I would be doing much better if I never had to speak the language!  I am working on my pronounciation and speaking and reading faster, but it's hard.