Blog #2

Proverbs in English

It was very interesting to know that English contain many proverbs or sayings like in my Arabic language. Proverb is a good way to make our speech more comprehensive and shorter, as I learned that most of proverb came from the past experience of the people and it’s exactly what I have in my mother language, in additional, through my classes in ALP and knowing people from different countries I know that the saying in all languages. Through the speak up class last semester I learned a lot of idioms and I discovered that it’s one of the important part from American culture and American people used to use the proverb in their speech like; put the cart before the horse, strike while the iron is hot and what will be, will be. In my home country the using of proverbs is common between the old generation rather than between the young people. Actually, the young generation invented their proverbs by themselves which are like a slang language and some time they use the common proverbs.

My favorite proverb is Keep your fingers crossed, which is mean I wish you a good luck, I remember when heard that proverb first time in university between two students and how they sign to each other. I was wondering what’s that means, but through my speak class I learned the meaning of it, and I start to us it, which was like a surprise special to my American friends. Also, my best friend used to say I feel blue which something strange to me, people use a lot of proverbs in their speech and it’s like a traditional thing which is a challenge for us as an international students but by time we will learn most of them.

“Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested”

I like this proverb and it’s totally true. In my opinion the knowledge is something that has no end and we need to feed our knowledge continuously even if we achieve our goals from it, the development in our world now days faster than in past and that development touch all the field of knowledge so we should continue refine and take care from our knowledge by read books, watch documentaries and do research in our field or other fields. As we learn more as our knowledge expend.