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| girlonthewing Newbie United States Joined 4547 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine), German | Message 1 of 2 01 January 2013 at 7:57pm | IP Logged |
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Hello! I've tried unsuccessfully to keep a log on HTLAL before, but I'm hoping that TAC 2013 will help me stay
motivated. I'm in my last year of university here in the U.S. where I focus on Middle Eastern Studies and Religious Studies. My two languages for the year are Arabic and German, putting me on the Alef and Schnitzel teams :) Arabic I've been studying Arabic since just after my first year of college when I traveled to Lebanon for two months to learn the language. I also spent four months in Jordan in an intensive Arabic program. I've been studying now for two and a half years and my Arabic is still nowhere near the level I'd like it to be. I especially need to improve my listening and speaking skills. I have Al-Kitaab, which we've used at school, as well as several other programs I haven't tried before to mix things up. I'll also be taking a Moroccan dialect class at school this semester. German Although I spent a few years living in Germany as a kid, I never really did learn much German. However, before that I lived in the Netherlands and had near-native Dutch (for a child). Though the Dutch has (really unfortunately) since been forgotten, the previous knowledge does aid my German studies a bit, at least with pronunciation. I started to study German casually this summer when I was in Berlin for an internship, but I didn't get very far. I'd like to step up my German study this year so I can hopefully see some improvement before 2014. I have several German language learning programs, including Living Language, Pimsleur, and FSI. I'll probably work through them all sporadically, doing whatever I find most interesting at the time. I really would like my German studies to remain a fun hobby. I'm currently in Germany visiting my boyfriend's family for my winter break, so I probably won't have much, if any, time for language study untill after I get home on Jan 13. I can't wait to get started! :) Edited by girlonthewing on 01 January 2013 at 8:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4445 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 2 of 2 04 January 2013 at 7:37pm | IP Logged |
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You go to such a great school. I've never heard of any college offering Moroccan Arabic
(not that I've gone around checking out every course schedule for every college in the nation). I heard from my Syrian taylor, who's married to a Moroccan woman, that the vocabulary between shamee and maghrebee is completely different. I look forward to reading you log and finding out about any other differences between the two and where they overlap. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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