Salams all,

I miss you too Banoot, and I miss the other girls as well…
Well, yeah, It would be a good idea to pick up a subject and start talking about it…

Well, bannot, there might be a number of difficulties that a student may face while studying English. In my opinion, we as Arab, still think in Arabic while we communicate in English, whether it was verbal or written communication.
This might be a problem as we might be using English words, but what is said would sound as an English translation to an Arabic sentence!!

For example, while stating that: المنار تدرس (في) جامعة السلطان قابوس
Some of us would make that frequent mistake and say :Al Manar studies (in) SQU
Which is incorrect, it should be (at) SQU.

In short, to spare you from this boring long lecture, its not correct to think of what we would like to say in Arabic and translate it word by word to English.
It’s not that easy, but it comes with practicing…

To improve the English section at Majalisna, I would suggest that whoever finishes reading a book or a useful article, posts a summary about what he or she has read. In this way, others may get motivated to start reading that book, and thus, improve their reading skills.
We could also start discussions about this book, and this will help us improve our writing skills.
We could also talk about movies! That would be even MORE FUN