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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4895 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 57 of 78 29 October 2011 at 10:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Did you find the FSI recordings? I'm having trouble doing an internal link from my
computer, but the "FSI Modern Written Arabic" forum has direct links to the audio downloads. Also, it seems that al-3arabiya has moved to blogspot, so the recordings might be there: http://al3arabiya.blogspot.com/ Meanwhile, I needed a break from FSI so figured I'd give Assimil an honest try. My feelings are mixed - which is a great improvement over thinking the course was just a pile of crap! The odd-sounding recordings are ok when you are trying to follow along, or repeat the phrases and catch the endings. I still can't stand to just casually listen to the recordings, but I balance it out by listening to Arabic Podcast 101 afterwards. They guys in the podcast have nice voices, and it's nice to hear good Arabic. I think I'll try and alternate for a bit: a week of FSI for the writing drills, and a week of Assimil for basic conversation. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emiliana Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 5120 days ago 81 posts - 98 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Arabic (classical) | Message 58 of 78 30 October 2011 at 11:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi guys!
It's been a while since I wrote the last time. I catched a bad cold and couldn't study for a few days :(. Now I am better and I went to the Arabic class on friday for the first time. 4hours!!! I was a bit afraid before but then it was ok. We learned vocabulary about the weather and in the end we where able to follow original weather forecast on Arabic telvision! Wow!!! That gives motivation I can tell you! I thought I could share some of the stuff I learned with you: the weather الطَّقس cold &n bsp;بارِد hot &nb sp; حارّ rainy & nbsp;مُمطِر sunny & nbsp;مُشمِس cloudy غائِم warm &n bsp; دافِئ dry &nb sp; جاف humid & nbsp; رَطِب degree دَرَجَه temperature حَرارة The next days I want to search for a website where you can watch Arabic weather forecasts, maybe aldjazeera. Also we listened to a song from Fairuz (I forgot the title... I will look it up the next if you are interested) and we where able to understand the text, too! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| KSAKSA Groupie Australia Joined 5151 days ago 65 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Gulf) | Message 59 of 78 31 October 2011 at 10:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Emiliana, by the subject matter and mentioning Fairuz I'd say you MUST be studying Al-Kitaab (sorry if you've mentioned it before, I haven't read the whole thread).
Al Kitaab often gets a bad rap which is unwarranted (in my opinion). It's not a bad little (big!) book to cut your teeth on at all I think. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emiliana Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 5120 days ago 81 posts - 98 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Arabic (classical) | Message 60 of 78 31 October 2011 at 2:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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hi ksaksa!
thanks for your comment! in fact, my Arabic teacher uses this book for her "newer" courses and she also copied the page with the fairuz lyrics for us (the song's name is حبيتك بالصيف , by the way). She also says that al-kitaab is way better the book we are using. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6235 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 61 of 78 31 October 2011 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
Emiliana، this is so helpful!! Please try to keep this up if time allows - I'm going to look for a weather forecast now... I will try to do this from my class as well although it won't be as "thematically" based. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6235 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 62 of 78 02 November 2011 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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OK, So rather than pasting my whole review vocabulary here, this is the key for the deck on Anki:
key = 34ff5b3366496a3e Copy and paste the above key to others, then tell them to go to http://ankiweb.net/account/home -> click the More button -> then click the " Deck subscriptions (has problems) " button on the left. Enter the key. The deck is called "LT199 Arabic" I also have an FSI Saudi Arabic deck key = c776c333664c14b4 called, what else, "Saudi Hijazi Arabic" but I kind of abandoned this effort once I started my class. Maybe I'll start it up again inshallah. I have been playing on the http://thearabicstudent.blogspot.com/ website a bit this week. It is really fun and I love the fact that there are copious translations. Thanks, Andrew! What a great site! In class this week we have been learning about my instructor's homeland of Oman. What an amazing place!! I have GOT to get there someday. She burned traditional Omani frankincense بخور(bukhoor) on halloween. The smell was heavenly! I can still smell it on my sweatshirt 3 days later! Unit 8 of Teach Yourself. 2 Paragraphs from 1001 Nights ألف ليلة وليلة which I can understand with some glossary help. There is no way I would have been able to read this a 2 months ago! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4895 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 63 of 78 07 November 2011 at 2:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Taking a quick break here, but I'll be back! Studying two languages posed far more
challenges than I realized; I wasn't making much progress at all. I'm heading with some buddies to Mexico, so wanted to brush up on my weak Spanish. And I guess I can't do it all! I'll start back up with French and Arabic the last week in November. I left off at: FSI Arabic, Lesson 10 (out of 32) Assimil Arabic, Lesson 14 (out of 77) and FSI French, Lesson 10 Assimil French, Lesson 84 (out of 132) I would love to finish Assimil French by the end of the year. I'll probably jam on that, and keep up the slow pace on Arabic. 2012 I'll reverse it, and start to focus more on Arabic. You all taking classes should be so far ahead by then! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6235 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 64 of 78 07 November 2011 at 7:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Ah Kanewai! رجلتُ!!!
كايس شوفَك! I tracked down the FSI recordings but a ton were missing. Anyhow I am determined to finish TY Arabic and TY Spoken Arabic. I have a bad habit of starting something then jumping to the next book that interests me. That being said - one I finish them I think I will continue with the Kallimni 'Arabi series for Egyptian Arabic. One of the students in our class is Egyptian. I really like the sound of Egyptian. It is much more melodic than the other Arabic dialects. Anyhow; أنا أراكم قريبا! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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