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Dear Sierra and Elias,

Thank you for your very imaginative podcast. Here are some suggestions for future lessons:

(1) In the course of my peregrinations through the Internet I’ve come across interrogative sentences such as the following:

maa (ﻤﺎ lawn (ﻠﻮﻦ al-hamaama (ﺍﻠﺤﻤﺎﻤﺔ? What colour is the dove?
maa (ﻤﺎ lawn (ﻠﻮﻦ al-dubb (ﺍﻠﺪﺐ? What colour is the bear?

Since it is useful to know how to make enquiries about colours, this sentence pattern might be dealt with in a podcast consisting of a short dialogue about objects such as motor vehicles.

(2) There are at least two other Arabic adjectives for “pink” and “purple”:

ﺯﻫﺮﻱ : pink
ﺃﺮﺠﻮﺍﻨﻲ : purple

These colour adjectives could easily be worked into a brief narrative text about a purple-veiled woman wandering through a garden and plucking pink flowers.

Thanks, Desmond! We'll keep these ideas in mind. Enjoy the weekend

bis repetita placent : this is a very good way to make this language understood for a beginner like me - as it is a "root" driven language it is very instructive to fall back on that system to explain the meaning of things- great job of the team - cheers