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| annette Senior Member United States Joined 5506 days ago 164 posts - 192 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 69 17 February 2010 at 10:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Kinan, do you know of any sites or videos in YOUR dialect? I'm guessing that it is
something under the large umbrella of شامي since you are in Syria, but even if not, it would be great to hear about ANY material available in your specific dialect... I'm currently looking into Levantine Arabic (although to be fair I'm not sure exactly what region my text is targeting), and I'm having an incredibly hard time finding any native material that is not written/recorded in MSA or Egyptian colloquial. I just don't know where to look! ETA: I'm not asking for learner material, just things like music or video or blogs, so that I can get more exposure. Edited by annette on 17 February 2010 at 10:54pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kinan Diglot Senior Member Syrian Arab Republic Joined 5566 days ago 234 posts - 279 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, English Studies: Russian, Spanish | Message 10 of 69 17 February 2010 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You are right, materials in Levantine dialect are rare but i recommended before to see the mbc channel site as they have many Syrian serials where they speak the "shami" dialect.
here is the link: http://www.mbc.net/portal/site/shahed/menuitem.80f975233b56b a9e4968bb10480210a0/?vgnextoid=de369d85799e2210VgnVCM1000008 420010aRCRD Look in Turkish drama category, the talk is Syrian dialect. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| annette Senior Member United States Joined 5506 days ago 164 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* | Message 11 of 69 19 February 2010 at 1:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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Shukran jaziilan! It looks very interesting. I've located the Turkish dramas and
bookmarked the page... I'll probably watch some later today! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5448 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 12 of 69 21 February 2010 at 2:07am | IP Logged | |||||
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How far apart are the dialectal differences? I'm quite sure they are far apart, but what would you say? About the distances between Romance languages, or farther?
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| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5677 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 13 of 69 21 February 2010 at 4:13am | IP Logged | |||||
Sort of. In a very, very rough sense some dialects could be considered as Spanish-Portuguese pairs, some could be Spanish-Italian pairs, and others could be Spanish-Romanian pairs. That said, I haven't studies most of these languages, but I have absorbed the stereotypes very well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kinan Diglot Senior Member Syrian Arab Republic Joined 5566 days ago 234 posts - 279 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, English Studies: Russian, Spanish | Message 14 of 69 21 February 2010 at 8:27am | IP Logged | |||||
You are asking if there are big differences between Arabic dialects if i understood your question well? Morrocan and Tunisian dialects are like Chinese to an English speaker, but other than that, all other dialects are understood without studying them, you just have to hear them for a while and you will get what they are talking about. For example, Egyptian dialect has many new words and the way they speak is strange to us Syrians, even their pronouncation of some letters like "ج" is different. But if you speak MSA Arabic or any other dialect, and you never heard the Egyptian dialect before you would understand most of they say, and then it's a matter of short time before understanding their language completly. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5765 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 15 of 69 21 February 2010 at 12:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
And Maghrebi is pure French. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Toufik18 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Algeria Joined 5744 days ago 188 posts - 202 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, Arabic (classical)*, French, English | Message 16 of 69 21 February 2010 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You can aim for the most intelligible dialect , the Egyptian Arabic, you will be understood in every area of the Arab "world".
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