ic32987 Groupie United States Joined 6331 days ago 50 posts - 54 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Written)
| Message 1 of 6 16 January 2010 at 2:40am | IP Logged |
Hi,
Can anyone recommend books to read with vowel markings? I want childrens books, but not those intended for 3-5 year olds. Most of the 9+ books do not include vowel markings, such as Harry Potter. Though I can manage with a dictionary, I have no idea of how to pronounce the words.
I just want to increase reading comprehension and find sentences for my SRS. I'm high beginner/low intermediate.
The Chronicle of Narnia Arabic editions seem to have vowel markings based on the title, but I don't know if the actual passages do. Anyone know?
http://www.amazon.com/Magicians-Nephew-Narnia-Arabic/dp/9059 500156/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263605447&sr=8-1
Anyway...what are you guys reading?
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apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6641 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto
| Message 2 of 6 16 January 2010 at 10:44pm | IP Logged |
It's easier to learn to read without tashkeel than to find interesting books using it.
I've only seen it in dictionaries and books for young children.
I think it's kind of a difficult task to learn to read Arabic without learning to listen,
as well. Eventually you develop an ability to recognize patterns and guess pronunciation
to words you don't know, but until then, it's just a matter of listening and reading to
the same words and matching them up as you go along.
After a few months you won't miss tashkeel at all. Don't sweat it.
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6461 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 3 of 6 17 January 2010 at 9:20am | IP Logged |
Can you recommend sources of MSA then where text and audio match up? I can't seem to make
any progress towards reading Arabic without vowels...
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ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6307 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French
| Message 4 of 6 20 January 2010 at 2:32am | IP Logged |
www.naturalarabic.com?
I haven't studied Arabic, but since that site contains native-level content like news broadcasts, I'm assuming it has no vowels marked in.
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Jolly663 Newbie Saudi Arabia Joined 5390 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*
| Message 5 of 6 13 February 2010 at 7:32pm | IP Logged |
apparition is right
I think you should read Arabic with tashkeel till you get used to read it without
I mean as long as you are beginner that's the best
maybe when you get to the next level you won't need vowel markings
you can guess the right pronunciation of the words
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translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6910 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 6 of 6 20 June 2010 at 4:24pm | IP Logged |
I know this is not exactly what you are looking for, but someone else on this site posted this great link where you can paste text into the box and it will add the taskkeel marks for you.
Tashkeel Marks
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