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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4894 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 9 of 9 01 June 2014 at 4:39am | IP Logged |
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One of the challenges I found with the MSA Arabic I studied in college was that I never
reached a level where it was very practical on the ground. Most of the advice I received were geared for people who were fluent in MSA, not beginners with limited vocabulary, rough pronunciation, and who are making lots of grammar mistakes. So I could make do with a limited A1/A2 level of Eastern/Levantine Arabic - enough to be understood by those who also spoke a Levantine dialect. But that same level wasn't enough for me in Egypt. I almost felt like I was starting over. By contrast, Americans I knew who were more fluent, say a B-level, in Levantine did fine in Egypt. My impression is that MSA would be super useful, but that if you're starting with Egyptian it would probably be more worthwhile to spend the next couple years perfecting that than switching dialects. Or conversely, start with MSA for three to five years. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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