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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4648 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes  Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 113 of 152 16 November 2014 at 2:32pm | IP Logged |
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Reading memoirs of a Polish woman who traveled quite a bit during the WWII and afterwards. Eastern Poland - Kazakhstan - Lebanon - Palestine - Great Britain - Poland, basically Gen. Władysław Anders's route.
And there's a crappy quality photo of the author's bilingual (French-Arabic) Lebanon 1945 ID. Problem is, some Arabic words are illegible or smudged (الاسم had a smudge which made it look like الابم lol), and I can't read them. Problematic words الشرة or something similar as an equivalent of French prenoms (first names) تاربخ meaning date (in date of birth) عا meaning place (in place of birth) الاسلبة (follows اجنبية to form an equivalent of French D'origine / Eng. nationality) New words bitaqat بطاقة card huwayyat هوية identity muwaqqatat موقتة temporary الوالدة mother الولادة birth Adʒnabiya(t) اجنبية foreign/female foreigner الشرة evil 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4648 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 114 of 152 12 December 2014 at 8:50pm | IP Logged |
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I've read about the swimming championships held recently in الدوحة. The funny thing is, neither Polish nor English sources can agree on how to pronounce the name of the city /doha/ vs /dauha/. I guess it's some sort of a dialect thing.
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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6058 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 115 of 152 13 December 2014 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
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Generally, it sounds more like this. To hear it, press the blue triangle and wait a moment.
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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4648 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 116 of 152 13 December 2014 at 3:31pm | IP Logged |
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I'm adding some paragraphs to my MA since I'm supposed to hand in the complete draft by end of January and only spend the next semester doing editing.
They include a short note on sign languages. First, I pulled up a list of sign languages from Wikipedia and saw some interesting entries (Aboriginal languages, Plains Indian trade pidgin) but also... New phrases lugha al-isharat لغة الإشارة sign language 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4648 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 117 of 152 19 December 2014 at 2:52pm | IP Logged |
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Today's UN Arabic Language Day.
An article on Arabic-derived words in English I found: link 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4648 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 118 of 152 24 December 2014 at 8:59pm | IP Logged |
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My Christmas presents are:
1) a T-shirt which says Sidi Bousaid سيدي بوصيد Tunisia تونيس (I'm gonna take a photo of it and send it to my Tunisian friends :P) 2) a 16 GB USB pen stick, with multilingual descriptions New words wasayt وسيط medium, device takhzeyin تَخْزِين storage 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Saim Pentaglot Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5080 days ago 124 posts - 215 votes Speaks: Serbo-Croatian, English*, Catalan, Spanish, Polish Studies: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic (Maghribi), French, Modern Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovenian | Message 119 of 152 29 December 2014 at 10:49am | IP Logged |
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Powodzenia / بالتوفيق. :)
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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4648 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 120 of 152 30 December 2014 at 3:32pm | IP Logged |
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End-of-year summary (something I forgot to do in 2013 :P)
Level started: A1+ Level ended: A1+ (aww, not much progress in terms of language level) New words learned: roughly 40 Arabic-speaking friends made: 1 (FB), 1 (HTLAL) Books used: leafed through Madinah a few times; got several others in PDF but they mostly cover A0-A1 range :((( 1 person has voted this message useful |
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