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Interpreting:Getting to B2 in MSA arabic | ||
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| Asperger-glot Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4548 days ago 16 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Persian, Arabic (classical), Pashto, Polish, Bulgarian, Russian, Turkish Studies: Mandarin, Romanian, French | Message 1 of 19 07 November 2012 at 11:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I am planning on working as an interpreter in MSA arabic at an asylum center.
I will not be translating difficult tech stuff, but rather ordinary things which people on an asylum center encounter. I´m thinking that being on a level between B2 and C1 is adequate for the task. I am right now on a low intermediate level in MSA arabic. This is the plan: 1) Assimil arabe sans peine 2) Assimil perfectionnement arabe 3) Al kitab pt.1 4) Al kitab pt.2 5 Al kitab pt.3 I will be spending most of the time on the Assimil books. What do you all think of this project? Is it realistic? I will be starting this project in the summer of 2013 I have one year. Edited by Fasulye on 11 November 2012 at 7:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4680 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes  Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 2 of 19 07 November 2012 at 1:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know much of Arabic, but is "MSA" the appropriate language to deal with asylum seekers, i.e. most likely to be people who do not speak MSA?
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3 of 19 07 November 2012 at 1:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wouldn't work, none of them will speak MSA but their local dialects. Figure out their
mother tongue, then learn that instead, sounds like a better plan to me. Edited by tarvos on 07 November 2012 at 1:05pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Asperger-glot Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4548 days ago 16 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Persian, Arabic (classical), Pashto, Polish, Bulgarian, Russian, Turkish Studies: Mandarin, Romanian, French | Message 4 of 19 07 November 2012 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Actually I have worked there some months as a teacher in danish, The adults from Syria
did spoke MSA very well. But then, let´s say that I complete my plan for MSA and then use 3 months on the libanese dialect. ? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 5 of 19 07 November 2012 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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That would work, since you would cover both written and spoken.
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| fiolmattias Triglot Groupie Sweden geocities.com/fiolmaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6691 days ago 62 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 19 07 November 2012 at 8:00pm | IP Logged | ||
??? Where does that come from? Most arabic speakers in Sweden came that way and while few of them speak MSA fluently the majority of them are excellent at faking MSA. Atleast the first few years before they prefer Swedish before MSA which they slowly loses because of lack of exposure. And the problem with learning a dialect to help asylum seekers is - what dialect should you choose that you'll understand what they say? The best approch is like he suggested. First MSA to B2-C1 and then perhaps levantine or any other dialect (or several) of his preference. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4680 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 7 of 19 07 November 2012 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, I don't know Arabic, but every discussion on the topic suggests that "nobody speaks MSA". I hope this is not the case, because I'd like to learn it at some point, but that's what is said in about any discussion: that only educated people would know MSA and I suppose (but here again it may be wrong) that asylum seekers don't consist only of educated people. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Asperger-glot Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4548 days ago 16 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Persian, Arabic (classical), Pashto, Polish, Bulgarian, Russian, Turkish Studies: Mandarin, Romanian, French | Message 8 of 19 07 November 2012 at 9:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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The refugees from Syria whom I spoke with in MSA, when working as a teacher, were kurdish syrians. They had no trouble speaking MSA. Maybe these people are above average when speaking of education level.?
I believe, as a rule of thumb,that the more years an arab person has gone to school the more MSA he knows. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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