Today's video marks the half-way point of my mission to learn Egyptian Arabic to fluency in 3 months, while in Brazil. The above video shows how I'm doing after 44 days, and you can follow along with the basic interaction by activating the subtitles in English, original Arabic, or Portuguese. Unlike in the previous video, this time I tried to interact much more with the person I was talking to. Today it was Henry, an Egyptian who lives in Australia, and it was the first time we ever talked. He's a reader of this blog, and offered to let me record our Skype conversation. I'm glad to say that I understood over 80% of what he said to me (although of course, he was speaking slowly and basically for my benefit). I think I explained my points more or less at a good enough level considering I've only been learning the language for about 6 weeks, although I am indeed speaking very choppy and could have used much better words.

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After tossing for a long time, I finally moved the website to Oracle. It’s time to settle down and write something. Think of this website as a web diary to record what I see, hear, and feel in my daily life!