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i got that ready and i got my chalk so we're gonna understand this the three um words these are the shortest arabic words that you can come across but they're quite complicated to understand we had to practice multiple times in class so we can comprehend which ones we could use with verbs which ones we could use with sentences and at the same time we have to know when to use them and where to use them what tense do we have to apply how do we understand if the subject
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is visible in the sentence or not so i'll give you three of them which is
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if you want to test your arabic keyboard go ahead and write all three of them and that will let me see who is live with us so um go ahead and write in
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if you don't have your keyboard you can just use your notes because i'm going to ask you to put them in sentences and i'll show you how you can apply another strategy to acquire more vocabulary so let's see how many of you will type in these three short arabic words alif with hamza and kasra underneath and then alifwood and then you have alif with fatha but the noon the first one has shetta the second one has shadda with fat
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of course you can see that i have combined them together and the third one has sukun
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so let's see how many of you will put that in the live chat and i'll let you get ready so you can just put your notes
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near you because you'll be forming sentences
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and i'll be sharing with you learners experience what students have said or felt about these words and how we have come to understand when and how we could use them
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remember all we need to do is to write them down and i'll be looking at the chat here myself so you can see how many of you have put these words in the live chat
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so this is modern standard arabic we're not doing full uh we are doing we're not doing dialects okay so i got the chat the live arabic chat ready so i can see please go ahead and write all these three words
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it's hard for me to say them all three at the same time so
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okay so we'll get started when we see inna and anna we had we combined them sometimes with sisters we call them
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inna and its sisters when we say inanit sisters what we refer to is the exact same rule that we apply when we use all of these four words that we can understand them as separate sets of vocabulary or lists of words so if i say
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the rule that will apply on all of them that the first word which could be a subject we have to put feta on it and the second word which is an object without a proposition of place i'm giving you examples where you could have the preposition of place without a proposition of place it could be an adjective so i'm just going to put here a noun and adjective the adjective has to have to win if it's not defined if there is no alif lam so if
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it's indefinite there is no alif lam you just have to put two tenuins which is damas and you go like
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but what's the meaning of inna when putting it at the beginning of this sentence if i say inna at the beginning of the sentence and i state something i mean that i am certain that the person is at home and i'm just providing you with more statements or with more
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so i could just state any of these examples to confirm that this person is what i tell you he is or where i tell you he is so i can use in the at the beginning
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and does only inna i can use it at the beginning and now i cannot use it at the beginning of a statement at all that's why over here i say it's sisters all of these have to be at the beginning of a statement then the second one is
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and you see this rule that i just told you that the the noun has to have i say
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this is the subject which is in grammar they would refer to it as
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subject and predicate but you could just say the noun and the object if you don't want to refer to the grammatical exact grammar words you can just say the subject and the object what who is the person and where the person is or what information you're giving us
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i hope or maybe maybe i'm hopeful that the person is in his office for example
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hopefully the the boss is in his office over here i do not put the ma because i have
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so you have to know this rule that the word you put after fee needs to have kasra
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in his office so that's the second meaning
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enough to emphasize your statement or you're saying indeed the person is this way is generous indeed the person is in his office
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is maybe and i'm hopeful that the person is doing what he's doing or i'm hopeful that the person um meets my expectation and i would say la la
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i'm hoping or maybe my new boss is kind then i would use la alla because i'm hopeful
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objection
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but the employee is absent but the employee is absent the rule i mentioned over here which is fatha and tenuindama i have them available over here so i can do that i can say
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i can use and i have to define the first the subject the person i'm talking about
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but the employee is absent then the fourth one which is another set of words or new vocabulary
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i wish later later while later while i wish my father was with us i wish my father was with us so i would say laita leita walidi
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my father so i don't put any fatha over here because i am defining this individual as my father not always the father it's my father canada because masculine i have to say canada was
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so basically this rule that i just said over here it can be applied to only when you have a subject and a predicate like you're giving me the person you're giving me what he's doing but if you're adding more creative ways to apply he was with us or in his office or additional statements the rule is not the same you have to be careful what you're using in order to apply this rule that you might find in arabic textbooks and grammar books as well so these are four sets that
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agree with inna because all of them have the exact same rule i mentioned over here and all of them take place at the beginning of a statement now how can i use n and n
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how can i use n and n and n and i'll see the chat if someone just mentioned something okay um
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i would use it with a specific list of verbs i have to have a good amount of vocabulary that are part of verbs and i need to state the verb at the beginning like over here i say
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i think and i have to say anna i think that so over here anna means that
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i think that i think that um
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so i can apply the rule of feta on any noun i say here
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to put the case end in so i think that my friend is sick i think that and whatever word you place after anna which is um proceed in a verb has to have fatah over here so you go like
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you can use this list if you want then the second part where which is inna you see the first function we have in at the beginning it has two functions
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the first one is you place inna at the beginning because you're very certain of your statement and you're restating it you're saying it again so let's say for example one of you says um
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uh the teacher is not in class al ustad less of his sof and you want to correct the person nicely you would say in that instead of his self no the teacher is in class so as if as if you are emphasizing the pronunciation of is in english and you see how you would say is at that grammar not grammatical um dramatical that dramatical effect you say the teacher is in class the teacher is in class
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so that same stress you would apply it on inna but in the first function at the beginning of the statement if you put it in the middle after a verb the verb needs to collocate within it only works with inna it only works with inna so you would say he said that
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he said that but i'll tell you something quite interesting even native speakers of arabic would still confuse
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he said that he is so in spoken arabic you would hear people say like i found myself saying that
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but when i looked at grammar books i've i saw that some of them would emphasize that there is
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must collocate or agree with paula and all you have to do is remember which verbs go with which one of these that so both of them mean that anna and he said that he is in class
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i think he said i think that he said that he is in class you could even do that and say
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if you want to practice you could just play with this like riddle i thought he said that he is in class um that way you can match with an elephant and
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and both of them mean that and you have to add your statement
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the other one which is this one over here all by itself this does not mean that this means two
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and if you were part of the live sessions that we have placed online for free for many participants we have practiced this multiple times which is n we put a verb and then we put n then another verb so it has to happen between two verbs and this means two my example is
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um yeah but why do we say that all of them have one rule that that they all agree with that rule is this and let me get my other marker whether you're putting in
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or any
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whatever word choice you put whether it's a noun or um this is another one verb yes all of them have to be they have to have fatah they have to have fatah so instead
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of and all of them like you can see oh my phone there you go
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okay um in that with a noun you have to put fat on the noun and if you put um an you have to put fat on the noun and then if you put n you have to put fatah on the verb so over here i say i will try to study
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i will try to study so
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so over here what i'm going to do is i will ask each one of you and please treat this life as a real class this is the type of instructions that we would give in class and i'd like you to make sure that you are applying these rules by forming sentences and it you don't have to be in the intermediate or advanced levels to capture this but all you could do is just write the word think of a person so for example we go inna
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and we'll we'll think about a place or a person and i could say in a sofa um the class and i am being very certain and i'm restating a statement and i'm saying in a sofa
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the class is long the meaning of the class is long so one of my students like i mentioned to you earlier that i'll tell you what some of our students asked one of my students she said
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um what if i just say ahmed is generous or ahmed is at home without inna is the meaning going to change no the meaning is not going to change at all so whether you're saying is generous
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the meaning does not change at all you're just still saying that is generous but when you say inna you're just restating you're you're being very certain and you're saying indeed um you add that dramatically dramatical um impact to your statement and and you're confirming that ahmed is generous
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this is so beautiful and i think in most advanced levels they would feel more comfortable saying inna at the beginning of a statement um and if you read religious texts or hadith or quran you'll find a lot of reference to this statement like in
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he is um he has a good character or good manners um in hadith or in quran you'll find this quite common um but in in advanced levels like you read in poetry you're having a formal meeting with someone they they would tend to use this um quite often than to just say
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so i think this would be how i would use them by applying more vocabulary adjectives definite and some other grammatical rules that we have covered before so let's do this write statements using
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you could either use i think that or he said that or i will try to or you could if you're comfortable you can use
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and let me look at the live chat and i will be reading your statements
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and then take your questions
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thank you so much enver so i'm glad that this is helping
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okay so let me take your questions and see if you were able to understand this um
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simple way i'm saying it's very simple really really simple because because the way um you apply your words is based on how many words or vocabulary you have and what grammar are you conf what grammar or lesson are you comfortable with have you covered propositions of place have you covered verb conjugation past present and over here um we meant to put present past and future although no is present tense i think allah is passed he said is future i will try to okay
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so let's see how many of you will write sentences using an or anna and inna ya lash
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and this live chat will be available for you to review and try to understand these statements and how you can use
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an
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thank you so much assad or i said jimmy daniela shabab let me take your questions don't leave i can see you i'm just kidding um so stay in the live i can i'm sure that some of you will take are taking their time at least if you're not able to form your sentences yet at least write these three words and write single arabic statements like this generous
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beijing a beautiful house any simple statement um that you can write
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jay kevin is saying in the medina jacksonville jamila in medina jacksonville jamila and then if someone says statement like this you would re respond to the person and say i agree with you
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that it is beautiful and in this statement i'm not saying you're saying but i am responding by saying
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that it is really beautiful because i'm using that i'm not using inna at the beginning of a statement
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nam i agree with you that she's beautiful at the market
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so kevin said medina
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so let's see how many of you will still give us their examples don't hesitate
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yeah if you're not giving me your examples i will give you mine and i'll ask you to write it or type it in there to see if you're able to capture the sounds
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i agree with you i agree
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in english you say i agree i agree but in arabic you have to say i agree with you attempt
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and we're using the singular um form of i at t
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and it's in the present tense and you say
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i do not agree with you i do agree with medina and alam
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so if if i am guessing that the person in the live chat is someone i know i would say i think that you are the person
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i think that this lesson will appeal to you
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so rahma take this as an opportunity to write the homework and you can put it in in the live chat and it will count as today's homework
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um so how about i will try to do this or i want to do this and you're using n
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okay
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okay jimmy did that let me do this i will give you a sentence in english which is um
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have you heard that and i quote a person when i say
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so it's like gossip time have you heard that
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s
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have you heard that x and y so if i say fulan is mister have you heard that x and y carla said
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in that versa have you heard that this person said that the class is difficult
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so what i'm going to do like i just said i stated an english phrase you can think about any phrase in your language in your native language but you do the translation so i will say i think
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that um okay you translate this one i think that the
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weather
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will be
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i think that the weather will be will be okay rainy and in florida we always think that i think that the weather will be raining today
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so how would you translate this
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statement in arabic i think my ink is running out i'll just grab another one
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and you do the translation
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i think that the weather will be rainy today
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how would you say that i'm looking at the live chat
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jamie and jitten
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so i see two sentences over here and i'll leave the rest with this translation so bashir is saying
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so if you're saying yepha means you're talking about someone it's a he so what you would say is
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i want him to do that i want him so in in the verb ori
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you have to say i want him within the verb before you say an i want him to uri
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to do that um and then there's another statement
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i don't think that it is so in this example i don't think that it is refers to it is
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i don't think that it is hard to learn the arabic the arabic language
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it has to be in the present tense if you say is i thought that but what happened to will be you could still still say i thought that the weather will be rainy today it's possible
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okay great
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i thought that that the weather and natasha mother
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and i already have a noun like weather
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the weather is the noun and i have to put fatal if i do have a noun i do not need to use a pronoun at all the pronoun can be used only if you're referring to the verb to be as it is
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it is or he is um so
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at the beginning of a statement you could say it is a beautiful weather in german
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the weather is beautiful so if you're saying inaudib
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look at your charts for our katawa students you have that chart look at the chart of the verb can i conjugation
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rainy is an adjective so let me clear this i hope you can see my board please let me know if you're seeing it if not i will just write in a darker color oh this is okay
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so what you put is over here mata
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and then we have adono these are the keywords and of course our lesson today is anna
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so anna goes with alon sayakun is will be
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that's an adjective rainy but mother is rain so if you're saying um
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although i think that there is rain outside how about this who can translate this i think that there is rain outside
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a fire is rain outside it's different from i think that it will be rainy tomorrow
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so if i say i think that there is rain outside i would say what
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there is there is and this is vocabulary
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there is how do we say there is we add it to our list
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mm-hmm
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lights
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it's time to get new markers
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so all you could do let's see another practice our final practice what we could do it has an accent
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this is what we're gonna do each one of you will think of a common statement that you say with that
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that or it is
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or two and all of them you could use n but you have to be careful which one is it
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so try to come up with a common a a common statement something you always say in your native language and translate it to english i wish we can speak all languages
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what is your statement so translate your thoughts now
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i think that the food is delicious
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okay so let's see
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yellow where i'm waiting for your sentences
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my texting is just take your time you can use transliteration you can use transliteration
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so if you do um i think that the food is delicious i think that the lesson is clear how about this um
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it is beautiful today or the weather is beautiful today you're showing that dramatical uh impact on your statements then you you probably want to say i want to do something or i decided to do something i realized that maybe i realized that i needed to do this
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and as you're putting your sentences you can think about ways to apply your vocabulary
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if you don't have words you don't have vocabulary that's the part where every time you come into a live study session you go over the words you take your statements you write them down you highlight the words that you learn and you keep going
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you can continue writing your sentences in the comment section and we'll go over them in sha allah and then you can reply to each other and learn from each other um by looking at accurate and real sentences inshallah so i'll see you in the upcoming sessions and thank you so much for joining so the last sentence we have is and i'll see you in sha allah in upcoming sessions please stick around for
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the this during this week as we'll be posting more material to help you understand this lesson
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