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TAC 2013 Team Alef (Mid-Eastern) TEAM LOG | ||
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| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4450 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 1 of 168 12 December 2012 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome to the log for the Middle-Eastern team. This team is for those learning Arabic,
Persian, Hebrew and other languages of Middle Eastern origin. French learners and speakers are also welcomed since French is such an important language in Middle-Eastern and North African countries. TEAM ROSTER Arabic Godmother: Woodsei Hebrew Godfather: laban Persian Godfather Jappy58 JohannaNYC: Egyptian and written Arabic Deadscreen: Arabic and French Luso: Classical Arabic Strikingstar: Written Arabic Takato: Egyptian and written Arabic Zecchino1991: Hebrew Ignis Fatuus: Written Arabic Élan: Persian, Arabic and Somali Druckfehler: Persian TheGreaterFool: Hebrew Ellasevia: Persian Shemtov: Persian and Arabic girlonthewing: Classical and Levantine Arabic Haksaeng: Levantine Arabic Hendrek: Persian Zireael: Yemeni Arabic Edited by JohannaNYC on 23 January 2013 at 2:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4450 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 2 of 168 12 December 2012 at 9:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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On-Line Language Learning Resources
Children's Book Library The Children's Book Library has digitalised 476 books in Persian, 30 books in Arabic and 19 books in Hebrew and access is free. I will definitely make use of them to practice reading. Some of the books are also available in other languages, so it's possible to use them as parallel texts. OllyBolly Children Book Videos This is a Korean site (in English) which has videos of narrated stories for children in several languages. All the videos are available with subtitles, as well as in English and Korean translation. They have 4 videos in Persian, 2 in Lebanese Arabic and 6 in Palestinian Arabic. DLI: G.L.O.S.S. online lessons I'm a great fan of these free lessons, which teach new vocabulary, grammatical structure and cultural competency. They have encouraged me to take the leap and study with native materials in Korean. They are available for every level and use a wide variety of native materials with audio, vocabulary lists, grammatical explanations and exercises with an answer key. There are 315 lessons for Persian, 482 lessons for Arabic, 142 lessons for Hebrew and 8 lessons for Somali. DLI News Training Interesting for Intermediate and Advanced students, similar to G.L.O.S.S. (possible overlaps). Book 2 Audio vocabulary and sentences in Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and lots of other languages. Arabic Free Arabic E-books Egyptian Arabic Dialect Course The Arabic Student Basic Egyptian Videos Egyptian Arabic on YouTube ArabicPod101: Free 7-day trial and a few free lessons. FSI Arabic: They have free courses in MSA, Saudi and Levantine with audio. Also comparative textbooks between Eastern/Western and Levantine/Egyptian. Benny's steps to become fluent in Arabic in 3 Months Hebrew The Little Prince Persian Persian Grammar Persian Online "A Day in Rostamābād of Shemirān" by Mohammad-Ali Jamālzāde This website has a Persian story with annotations for every word, English translation, audio, etc. Could be very useful for reading practice. DLI Dari Course This Dari course from the Defense Language Institute looks very good. It's very new (not like most of their resources which can be found on the net) and includes student textbook, student workbook, audio and the teacher book. Persian Verb ConjugatorMight be useful, very thorough. Also has a site with grammatical explanations. Virtual Persian These are basically just conversations with script and audio (no translation or vocabulary). Farsi.Tardid.Net Dialogues, Farsi.Tardid.Net Lessons Several Dialogues with Video and Worksheets/Handouts for download. I haven't tried this yet. Radio CP Weekly Podcasts in Farsi. The Little Prince (text and audio) Edited by JohannaNYC on 14 January 2013 at 5:41pm 15 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| deadscreen Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4371 days ago 25 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 3 of 168 12 December 2012 at 10:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey thanks for starting the thread, Johanna! I started the Romance Team thread so I've been pretty focused on that so far. I'd like to clarify what I will be doing as part of this team:
My main focus is French this year. That being said, I would like to learn more about Arabic, and the connections it has to both French and Spanish. As it stands right know, I know literally NOTHING about Arabic, other than it uses a non-Roman alphabet (Is roman the correct term?). I will be looking for an introductory textbook for myself in the next two weeks, but I am really hoping to do a lot of talking with you guys and reading your logs to really help myself get to know the Arabic language. I am predicting that I will probably do more learning ABOUT Arabic this year than learning too much actual language. But I'm not being final about that! I'm open to learning some conversational Arabic if, perhaps, someone wants to practice basic conversation or our godmother would like to talk with me a little bit? Anyway, that's my two cents. Thanks again for making the thread, and I'm looking forward to 2013! Edited by deadscreen on 12 December 2012 at 10:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4450 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 4 of 168 12 December 2012 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Deadscreen that's great, we're here to learn. The only requirements are to learn some
Arabic even if it's not your main focus, keep your log updated and read your teammate's blogs at least once in a while. It would be nice to have some Arabic conversations with each other and our godmother, but we'll see about that later. Any ideas for team name? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 5 of 168 12 December 2012 at 11:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi all!
Popping in to say hey, and I'm here to offer any help I can for the team, and I wish you all the best of luck! Let me know if you have any suggestions, I'm kind of new to the whole Godmother thing :D But of course, I'll do my absolute best! EDIT: @deadscreen: Of course I'm ready to discuss anything over with you in regards to Arabic. I speak the Egyptian dialect, but I also have some knowledge of Levantine, or I can try and point you towards a good direction. I could help you with the alphabet as a starting point, too, if you need it. I'm also open to any suggestions you have. Conversations, or books, or ideas, throw it at me and I'll look into resources, or work out some ideas. Let me know! Edited by Woodsei on 12 December 2012 at 11:52pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 6 of 168 12 December 2012 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for starting this thread, JohannaNYC!
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| deadscreen Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4371 days ago 25 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 7 of 168 13 December 2012 at 12:21am | IP Logged | ||
Woodsei, I think the most helpful thing you could tell me is what is the most commonly spoken dialect of Arabic (in your opinion and experience as an Arabic speaker) and also, do you know of any good references for learning Arabic alphabet and vocabulary? Preferably online or free, as I am already a college student with little extra spending money. Edited by deadscreen on 13 December 2012 at 12:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4450 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 8 of 168 13 December 2012 at 12:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello fairy godmother! The team godparent is a brand new position so you're a pioneer :)
I'm sure you'll do great as long as you check up on us every once in a while. @deadscreen I posted two links to the Arabic resources I plan on using on my blog I have many more for non-Egyptian Arabic which I won't be using, I'll post them here later. This forum is starting to get in the way of my learning any of my languages. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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