Arabic Update.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to do a lot of Arabic in the last few weeks because I have been busy with other things.

But I have noticed small improvements. I have reached the end of my Arabic book, meaning that I have finished all of the Arabic books I own. I also noticed that Arabic videos I used to have great difficulty understanding, are now much easier (or even effortless) to understand. Which is a huge plus for me because I have been super worried about my listening ability.

I am going to start using the internet to find more complex grammar rules and more abstract vocab. 
I noticed that some of my vocab is dropping out of my brain due to lack of usage. The other day I even forgot the word for 'chicken'. Hopefully my vocab will get reinforced once I am in Cairo.

A small side project that I have been working on is that I have been spending about 45 minutes to an hour every day for the last few days learning to read Chinese characters, with the long term goal of being able to read a book in Chinese.

I tried to learn to read Chinese about a year ago, and since I am a visual learner I could easily memorise 100 characters a day. But now I am having to put in a lot of effort to achieve the same results. If I really concentrate then I can still remember 100 new characters in a little over an hour. But I normally do it on my phone while watching TV, and stop early after about 75 character.

As for my impending move to Cairo, it depends on a lot of things. As it stands, the ETA for my departure is the 10th of June, but this isn't written in stone. I have to wait for my exam results to make sure I don't have any retakes, and then have to book the Arabic course, accommodation and flights Excited, but impatient to get my results and hopefully the green flag to leave for Cairo.