Describe Your Personality

laziz wa kamil khalis ya nas....

Hello, back again to bother you some more. Can you describe your personality to someone? Are you, for example a shy person (khagoul)or maybe you're a generous person (karim.

Well, there are so many PERSONALITY TRAITS or CHARACTER TRAITS (sifat el shakseya). We can learn a few at a time.

Look at the diagram. I will describe in a sentence the personality trait and you guess which one I'm talking about.


1. He's always in a hurry to do things. He never takes his time. He's........
2. She only cares about herself and never helps others. She's..........
3. Hany only talk about how much money he has and how rich he is. He's......
4. When she was young she used to be so scared to talk to people. She was.....
5. He could not face her with the truth face to face, so he sent her an email. He's so .........
6. He's known her for a year, but never got her a present. I think he's........
7. Ali is very smart in business. He's ........
8. Sarah wanted to improve her English to get a better job. She's ........

ANSWERS:

1. Impatient (ma 3andoush sabr)
2. Selfish (ananee)
3. Boastful (aleet)
4. Timid (zay khagoul. Timid is like shy but timid leha dakhl be khof shwyia)
5. Cowardly (gaban!...nadl! ...hayawan!! oops!! sorry nisit nafsee shwyia! Cowardly only means gaban)
6. Stingy (hat oulee la ya teacher-ghilsa, howa maksouf bas. La ba'a..howa BAKHEEL. It is pronunced like this: stinjee)
7. Sly (makar or la'eem)
8. Determined (I don't know it in Arabic, but it's like qawee el iradah)

Of course notice that in English there is no feminine or masculine when talking about traits. All traits are used for both men and women.

There are so many character traits...
Go to the link to give you a lot more. It's all got a dictionary to help you.


http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/kochan/charactertraits.html