Fallynleaf's Spanish/Palestinian Arabic study log

Another overdue study log update! This one is overdue because I was neglecting the book club (due to a combination of being very busy and also very depressed), but I did finally finish another week’s reading.

Spanish

Finished the week 13 reading for La Ciudad de las Bestias! I also said I wasn’t going to do the next book club because I’m so behind on this last one, then my nomination Mentirosa | L30?? got picked, so I might end up unable to resist joining :joy_cat:.

That one looks super easy, though, so I’m hoping it’ll be like the other YA romances I read in Spanish and not take me much longer to read than if I were reading in English. No amazon rain forest words to have to look up in this one, probably!

Arabic

I had maybe one more lesson after my last update, but then we had to put our lessons on pause due to IRL stuff on our end, so I haven’t had a lesson in three weeks. We may or may not have one next week? It’ll depend on if my friend is able to make it.

Unfortunately, things have also gotten a lot harder for our teacher, because he lives in Nablus, and Israel has been increasing its violence in the West Bank… He said that he’s okay so far, though things have been tough. I really hope that he doesn’t end up forced out of his home or killed…

So I guess things are more up in the air right now, and there’s a chance that we might not be able to continue our lessons, but I’m crossing my fingers that things will work out.

I asked our teacher for some more song/movie recommendations in the meantime, and he sent me a long list of them, so I’ll try to share some of those in here after I’ve had more time to go through them.

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