Intensive Summer Language Course

I've been away for a while, and haven't really written anything here, but that's how things go I suppose. However, I've enrolled in a 6 week intensive summer Arabic course, which seems to be a really intense(hence the name) way to learn, or begin learning a language. I've learned much of what I wanted to, namely how to read, which was my initial goal to begin with. Speaking the language was not essentially what I really wanted, but I've learned a lot of verbal communication, and I even have a very small functional vocabulary. for me the best part being able to learn to read and write in Arabic within only one week, and really within the same week to be forming basic sentences and telling about myself in writing and in speech, which is really quite a great accomplishment to have made. Although the course spans five hours five days a week, and is really very tiring, it is well worth the time and money. I'm interested to study a language that is complex and still well designed. The most difficult point for me has been the unsystematic nature of plurals, while the rest of the language seems to be very systematic and well formed.