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| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5833 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 49 of 70 17 February 2012 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
I wrote a short review of it on the first page of this thread Edited by stelingo on 17 February 2012 at 9:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| XMEJID Tetraglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4661 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, French, Portuguese Studies: Arabic (classical), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi), Arabic (Gulf), Haitian Creole | Message 50 of 70 22 February 2012 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Assimil Arabic with Ease (English Version) is not at all bad as a beginner's method. The
2005 French version, "L'Arabe sans Peine" however, is indeed superior. If you don't understand French the English version is nevertheless a decent alternative. Edited by XMEJID on 22 February 2012 at 9:08pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| lauramal Newbie Iceland Joined 4650 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 51 of 70 04 March 2012 at 1:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't know anyone who has learned it themselves, but it should not be harder than any other language. Self
discipline is the answer :) This is a good place to start www.arabiconline.eu. It is a free online course in Modern Standard Arabic for complete beginners and it has voice recording facilities so you can practice pronunciation and compare it with examples. Good luck! Edited by lauramal on 04 March 2012 at 10:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zashi Newbie United States Joined 4569 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 52 of 70 24 May 2012 at 6:59am | IP Logged | |||||
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One thing i definitely took from language learning -.... you have to live, breathe, and LOVE the language. In fact, i pulled this quote in this forum, "if you're dreaming about the language in your sleep - you are studying in adequate amount" - That is my motivation.
If you don't like it - you're not going to want to spend HOURS upon HOURS learning it. That's why I stopped on Arabic. I don't know if I will ever even visit a country the speaks that language... It just seemed cool to learn. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6230 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 53 of 70 24 May 2012 at 3:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
Good for you! Keep it up! Plus there are Arabic speakers all over the world - you don't have to visit an Arabic speaking country to speak it! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| bananafish14 Hexaglot Newbie Sweden Joined 4944 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German, French, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Russian | Message 54 of 70 01 July 2012 at 8:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey,
Firstly, thanks for all the useful pieces of advice in this discussion. I am at an intermediate Arabic user,almost fluent, but rusty. I studied at uni ten years ago and have been going back now and then, as well as lived in the Middle East. I am looking for 1) some course material (selfstudy) on a higher level 2) some fun online vocabulary games, for free or cheap, that one can download to Iphone/Android or computer. Something like Brainscape http://www.brain-scape.com has for French. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Eva 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 55 of 70 01 July 2012 at 10:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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I hope to find out shortly, as I will be using Ultimate Arabic plus some other materials, including a book from the DLI.
I can't yet speak to the other materials mentioned here, but I've heard very good things about the Hans Wehr dictionary. Edited by Journeyer on 01 July 2012 at 10:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| KSAKSA Groupie Australia Joined 5146 days ago 65 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Gulf) | Message 56 of 70 31 August 2013 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd like to ask about Arabic for Life: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic. I know it was asked in a 2012 post but was wondering if anyone had the opportunity to use it since then.... Edited by KSAKSA on 31 August 2013 at 12:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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