Shunaqa oʻtgan yoshligimiz)))

Bu oy mardu maydondur,
Bandam degan Rahmondur,
Kutib turgan Rayyondur,
Ramazon keldi, Ramazon!

Ramazonda sabr bor,
700 qat ajr bor,
1000 oyga teng qadr bor.
Ramazon keldi Ramazon!

Ramadan is here my friend!

Ramadan Mubarak to you!

Shahnoza Your score :🎖 5.5

The score given to your speaking is an approximate one and may only be used for self-evaluation.

8 SIGNS THAT YOU HAVE A PURE HEART

1️⃣ You consider yourself as belonging to the next world and not this world, you're a stranger in this world
2️⃣ You continue to be upset with yourself any time you commit a sin until you finally and completely repent to Allah
3️⃣ You are more upset and unhappy if you miss your daily recitation of the Quran and Dhikr than if you had lost your wealth
4️⃣ You find greater pleasure in worshiping Allah than any pleasure in eating and drinking
5️⃣ Your worries and concerns about this world leave you whenever you begin your formal prayers
6️⃣ Your only concern and worries are about Allah and doing Deeds only for his sake
7️⃣ You're more concerned and stingy about wasting time than a greedy person is with respect to his wealth
8️⃣ You're more concerned about the correctness of your deeds than with the performance of the Deeds themselves

Let's do this challange again!

P.S. I thank my brother Bosit for reminding me this )

Assalomu aleykum.
Happy 5th day of Ramadan.
Juma Mubarak.
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Happy Navruz :)

Kindness on a wheelchair

I was walking up the street when I saw a Russian man, in his late 20s I guess, in a wheelchair with a large plastic trash can on his lap.

When I looked at him closely, I realized that he was struggling to move up the slope. I immediately ran towards him to help him as soon as possible because cars were driving past him and some were behind him trying to drive past.

When I got there, he said "That way", pointing to the place where large metal trash containers are kept (if you know the word for this place, leave it in the comments). I emptied his trash can and we headed back home.

While showing me the way, he spoke in short words and phrases such as "be careful" or "path-hole" or "left" because he was slightly mentally disabled as well and you could tell this from his voice as well.

After about 10-15 minutes of travel, he said "Stop!" in the middle of the street and said "thanks, go!" and continued moving down the street on his own.

At first, I wanted to go back to where I had come from but after walking for a few minutes, I stopped. I decided to keep walking in the same direction that the disabled man was moving because I love travel and adventure and I just wanted to see where the street would take me to.

As I was walking past a small shop, I saw something that made me stop and think "Wait... what?"

Right in front of the shop was the same exact plastic trash can that the disabled was carrying in his lap and He was just moving around the corner.

You see, he wasn't carrying his own trash. It belonged to the shop in his neighborhood.

What leaves me wondering is why would he do so much for someone who probably didn't need his help in the first place?

Another question which puzzled me was why did he stop me from helping him when we were about to reach the shop and went there on his own?

Is it because he didn't want someone else to see him doing this selfless act?

You know, some people try to keep their good deeds a secret which I think is a good trait to a certain extent.

I Was Wrong

A couple of years ago I saw an hour-long YouTube documentary made by a Spanish teacher in the US about his one-year quest to get to conversational fluency in Arabic without direct study.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, and used some of the ideas in it to help get my start learning Korean.

But one thing from that video that I was extremely skeptical of was TPRS (Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling). I watched some demos online and it just seemed... incredibly boring. I couldn't wrap my head around it.

Then I had an opportunity to try a TRPS lesson in a language I have never studied (and don't have any immediate plans to study). My mind was blown. I was 100% engaged the whole time. My brain felt like it was in some sort of hyper-focused overdrive. I woke up the next morning with phrases from the lesson rattling around in my head. It usually takes a lot of exposure before I start hearing that din in the head. This was less than an hour.

When I see people write in my native language, their problem is almost never vocabulary. It's things like prepositions. Word order. Getting the nouns and verbs to agree in terms of tense, gender, and number. More word order. More gender.

Don't get me wrong, vocabulary is crucial. It's hard to read an interesting book without vocabulary. But vocabulary doesn't seem to trip language learners up the way grammar does.

What I think TPRS gets right is the concept of micro-fluency with a sheltered vocabulary for the very first stage of learning a new language. It seems like it almost doesn't matter at first what the early vocabulary is, if you're getting an intuitive sense of all the basic bits and pieces of grammar.

This in turn means that early lessons or content can use whatever vocabulary is going to be easiest to make comprehensible, even if those things aren't necessarily things you'd generally encounter in day-to-day life.

So, yeah. I was wrong :) TPRS is pretty cool, and if you have the chance, you should totally try a lesson in a language you know nothing about, just for the sake of experience.

P.S. This is a Reddit post but I completely agree with pretty much everything in this post.

The video in the post above came up in my YouTube video multiple times but for some reason I ignored it but when I did watch it, I was blown away.

I know what TPR and TPRS and have successfully used it in my classes for several years but what was not right about my approach was I kept correcting my students mistakes even though it didn't help them that much. They simply kept making the same mistake despite all the explanations, examples and details. I now realize that I was wrong.

However what I liked most about this guy was the following words or something similar to this.

"Even if you memorize an entire dictionary you would still be unable to speak the language because it's not about how many words you know."

I like to use the following metaphor to explain the idea above. Imagine a professional juggler juggling with 3 balls. With only 3 balls, he can do amazing tricks as long as he is good at it.

The same thing is true for language learning. I bet a guy who knows how to use 300 words and can make up hundreds of different sentences using almost only these words is not just a little bit better but much, much better than a guy who knows 1300 words but can barely use them. (I talked more about this in this video)

In fact, when I was studying at MDIST, there was a band 6.5 guy who spoke better English than some band 7.5 guys. He must have failed the reading and writing portions of the IELTS exam but I can't say the same for listening and speaking.

- Qissadan hissa shuki...
- Oyijon "qissa" nima digani?
- E qissade!

Acquire the language thru reading and listening to lots of lots of fun stories and novels. It will be so much fun that it won't feel like "studying a languge". It will feel like eating a delicious cake that you simply can't get enough of :)

Laylatul Qadr!

We are witnessing real Laylatul Qadr.

I read several sahih hadiths by Imam Al Bukhari and when it comes to the signs, most of them said that it rains on this day which is better than 1000 months

So do NOT sleep and make the most of it!

I wish you productive night with lots of dhikr and salahs.