Yes, the insanity continues ~
Don't forget to read Awkwardness in Arabic Class I & II. Have interesting tales from Arabic class? E-mail them to KABOBfest.At this stage in the game, our professor adamantly believes that we should all be able to recognize every letter of the Arabic alphabet in initial, medial, and end position. Unfortunately, not everyone is doing their homework & so many are still saying "zaa" for "raa" and "yaa" for "taa." This has left our professor very frustrated - so much so that he's decided to move onto vocabulary words whether we're ready for them or not.
Last night we were assigned our first set of vocabulary words - thirteen "household items" in all. After spending an hour sounding out every syllable out loud and in slow motion, our professor suddenly declared: "Stop saying 'khaa' for 'jaa' - if you cannot recognize the letters by now, then studying language is not for you!"
This was the most perturbed I've seen him in all six weeks of class. In fact, he was so annoyed that he decided: "Now I am going to tell you a word and you must spell it in super lightening speed. There is no excuse for being slow! For example, when I say tilfaz, you say ta - lam - fa - alif - zan."
In a last-ditch effort to increase our spelling speed, he decided to tailor stories for each student that would encourage him or her to spit out the correct letters quickly. Below are the three most interesting stories:
Molly: the American soldier
Teacher: Listen to me Molly. Imagine that you are in Iraq and you are confronted by Iraqi children you want to shoot down with a machine gun because you are violent. POW! POW! POW! POW! This is is how fast I want you spell the word hatif.
Molly: Ha... um... eeh?... ta... if.
Teacher: Sorry, you were only able to kill a few.
Jeffrey: the Jewish kid
Teacher: Ok Jeffrey. You are my favorite. Imagine that you... let me think... ok, you are chasing after a Palestinian family. You want to destroy their lives fast, so you shoot the mother, kick the baby, and bulldoze the house. Really fast, like 1 - 2 - 3! Kill them! Spell kalam - Go!
Jeffrey: (laughing) ka - lam - meem
Teacher: Congratulations you are a murderer
Me: the lone Arab
Teacher: Ok we all know that you are Palestinian. I want you to imagine that an Israeli like Jeffrey is coming to steel your grandfather's house...
Me: They already did.
Teacher: Oh. Ok, imagine that an Israeli like Jeffrey is coming to steel your grandfather's orchard...
Me: They did that too.
Teacher: Ok then, imagine that Jeffrey is chasing you with a gun and you need to runaway with your life. Spell the following word very fast: Hasoob!
Me: ha - alif - seen - wow - ba
Teacher: Perfect! You are safe and alive... for now.
Jeffrey didn't make eye contact with me for the rest of the class.
20 comments:
Hello, nice blog ))), very intresting post, wait for continuation.
Thank you.
Is there even a point to continuing to read these bullshit scenarios of yours? They aren't even funny. Dude, if you have something to say, say it without all the fiction.
On the bright side, you don't seem to be bothering with the pretense that these stories really happened, any more, eh?
We need more of this, perhaps the author should start a blog and link to kabob for constant updates
hilarious!
hahaha i love it
Interesting. Thanks
I'm enjoying Arabic class with you. Thanks.
Craig, you know what they say. "The guilty dog barks first"
Fucking hilarious. I want to take that Arabi class.
Craig, you know what they say. "The guilty dog barks first"
Who is "they"? Retarded people? Or is it just you? :P
At this point, it's pretty obvious nobody actually believes this "arabic class" routine, which means all you fuckers saying how funny it all is (even though there's nothing at all funny about what bugfucker is saying) are just a bunch of assclowns.
I mean, you guys do realize this is blatant bigotry, right? When did bigotry become "hilarious"? I urge bigfarty to actually get a job teaching Arabic and start making those kind of racist comments to people in his class room and see what happens to him, eh? Now THAT would be truly funny :P
Racism on a blog is one thing, but racism from a teacher against his students is whole different matter. Isn't it, bogpatti?
LOL - if only my arabic teacher would say ANYTHING AT ALL in english then class would be so much easier.
I'm speechless, I seriously am. Everytime someone is trying to enjoy one of Kabob Fest's posts you have to ruin it with your comments.
Why are you taking all this effort? If you love your country and you love Israelis so be it. Could you please leave us and go find your soul mates on LGF or something? This is the 2nd time I'm asking you to stop ruining everything to everybody. Most annoying part, is that you're spread around the blogs on toot and comment friendly shit on blogs of people you don't even know or at least agree with politically.
That's it, you're not making any point any more, we're all expecting your shit that would completely be against whatever's posted.
I still feel sorry for you, and I wonder what do you do in your life other than hating...
Here's something I want you to spell for me:
انت واحد خرا ما عندك لا شغلة ولا عملة
That was funny. Six weeks.......? Everyone should have the alphabet down long before six weeks.
When I took my first Arabic class I already spoke a fair amount of Arabic, dialect not fus7a. Our teacher moved on from the alphabet after the first couple of classes.
fucking hilarious
I'm speechless, I seriously am. Everytime someone is trying to enjoy one of Kabob Fest's posts you have to ruin it with your comments.
Why should anyone "enjoy" anything that gets posted on Kabobfest? It's all bigotry and hate. That's it. Nothing to enjoy here. Anybody who thinks bigotry and hate is fun, needs to get their head examined. And until they do, they deserve to have my boot up their ass every day of every week.
Most annoying part, is that you're spread around the blogs on toot and comment friendly shit on blogs of people you don't even know or at least agree with politically.
I have no idea what that means. This is the only blog I get abusive with people on. Because, lets face it, the people here deserve it. And more.
This was very, very funny. Do not worry people, Buydatti had NOTHING to do with it. We will keep these reports coming without his trifling ass.
salaam
Will
And until they do, they deserve to have my boot up their ass every day of every week.
what a repugnant person.
Am I the only one who finds this upsetting? Speaking for myself, if I'd been in this class I would have snapped by now and started yelling at the professor or left in tears.
You know, people generally study a language because they want to communicate in it, not because they're looking to destroy the people who speak it. Has it ever occurred to this professor that the Jewish kid might want to understand the Palestinian perspective? Or that the soldiers might want speak Arabic to understand what Iraqis are telling them? I mean, I don't know why these kids took this class--for all I know they just think Arabic will be a useful language in the future like Chinese--but the professor's approach is completely fucked up. Attacking the students like this is never the right thing to do.
if i understand right, the teacher was being facetious. if you're offended, you prob had to be there.
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