Correct English
I have recently taken action to improve my English. It has been a few weeks of work and for my own sake, it seems worth recording here, why not? A huge part of my spirituality is my obsession with self-improvement and communication is a skill that everyone needs to work on. So here, I am learning about English.
Reading Dune Prequels in Spanish
So I learned some Spanish when I was young. I used to be quite good at it, thanks to Michelle Thomas Spanish and the odd bit of practice with my Grampa who retired to Spain. I would like to chuck out all my old learn Spanish books and to do that I want to officially say "I speak, understand, read and write Spanish as well as I could ever want to". I think that if I could say I have a 10,000 word vocabulary and I have read a few novels in Spanish then that would do and would help me clear out some of my old books, CDs and cassette tapes (yes I've had some books for learning languages since when Cassette tapes were still a thing).
Learning Arabic
I always wanted to learn Arabic which was a family language as a kid. I had great difficulty learning the Arabic spoken by my family as a kid. Everytime I had a book to help me learn, my grandmother would always say the same thing "no that's not proper Arabic. The Egyptian Arabic is the proper Arabic." She was mostly wrong, but the truth was I didn't really want to learn MSA, I wanted to learn my family's dialect so I could speak to my cousins and family.