I took Senda for an evening walk through the cobblestone walkway by the closed stores of the mall this evening after nine, and she taught me the following 5 words in perfect Krashen contextualization of i + 1:
"Look, Senda said, Macy's is a مَحَلْ, the Apple مَحَلْ is a مَحَلْ, but also we live in a مَحَلْ."
(Mnemonic: Think Taj Mahal. Imagine them selling souvenirs there now. It was a fancy Mahal once upon a time in the general sense of the word, but now it is specifically the more common commercial sense of the word Mahal. I wonder if the king who built the Mahal new it would become a commercial Mahal. I wonder if that is where we get the word Mall from in English.)
At the end of the cobblestone walkway Senda sat down on a single person seat with four legs and arm rests.
"I'm sitting down on a كُرْسِيّ, she said."
(Mnemonic: This word sounds a lot like a car seat for a baby, or like the word curtsy. I image Senda makes a curtsy with her long green skirt before she sits down in the chair, but then I imagine that the chair gets narrow and has lots of straps dangling around it like a car seat, and when she sits in it she gets stuck, and I have to help pull her out. Curtsy divided by Car seat = Cursiyy because the "t's" cancel out. Alternatively, you could imagine a chair carved with beautiful Arabic cursive and then drop the "v" that doesn't exist in Arabic.)
"Look," Senda then continued,
"This كُرْسِيّ and the others with it are in front of a طَاوِلَة that we could eat on or work on."
(Mnemonic: To remember it starting with a Dark "T," I imagine a huge Tarantula jump on the table. Senda screams and dives under the table. The tarantula starts ripping out the middle of the table until there is a whole in the middle that looks like a wheel. Then before he jumps through the hole, a security guard I alerted zaps him with a Taser and he freezes into a lifeless statue onto top of the wheel that is over terrified Senda. Reading the image top to bottom in the freeze frame, I see in my mind's eye (1) Taa (2) wi L (3) a {almost or "ah" screaming} (4) Senda, feminine representation at the end for te-marbuta.)
After teaching me those words Senda felt that uncomfortable feeling on your skin that makes you scratch.
"I'm scratching," she explained, "because I have an حُكَاكْ."
(Mnemonic: Imagine I take Senda into a cafe where the greeen Who's from Whoville in Dr. Seuss' book are serving Who Cake, which Senda takes one bit of and then starts to itch all over from a terrible alergic reaction. She scratches and scratches, but it won't go away until I get her out of the Who Cake Cafe into the cool refreshing night air.)
As we are walking out of the other end of the mall headed back home, we see two lean young men in designer cloths standing exceptionally close to each other while gazing into a Potter Barn store window at all the decorative household supplies in the display. The are pointing at the items in the window and talking excitedly to each other about them in a very feminine manner.
Senda say, I wonder if they are مِثْلِيْنْ like the two husbands we knew in Oakland.
(Mnemonic: These two guys seemed exaggeratedly stereotypical, and made me think there is a myth of lean homosexuals wearing designer cloths and acting feminine, but really, a lot of the homosexuals we knew in Oakland were neither lean nor girly at all. But MYTH LEAN sounds exactly like the word for two homosexuals in Arabic, so it's a good Mnemonic fit.)
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