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| flabbergasted Triglot Groupie Latvia Joined 6356 days ago 75 posts - 97 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Latvian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, Serbo-Croatian, Catalan, Persian | Message 57 of 69 04 March 2010 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Another question for Kinan. I wonder, when two Arabs talk to each other in MSA on some
television talk show, how does it sound to you? Do you feel that they are unnatural and too formal? Can such a conversation happen in real life, let's say between an Egyptian and a Lebanese sitting next to each other on a train? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| aquablue Senior Member United States Joined 6382 days ago 150 posts - 172 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 58 of 69 04 March 2010 at 10:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
Of course, what? So, gulf or egyptian for my needs? Edited by aquablue on 04 March 2010 at 10:11pm 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 59 of 69 04 March 2010 at 10:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ofcoursethey would understand each other. As for your needs, i need to know them first..but generally Egyptian is way more popular than Gulf one. 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 60 of 69 04 March 2010 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
On television all the talk shows are in MSA and so it dosn't sound unnatural to me, but it would if i hear 2 people speaking MSA to each other in the street. If for example a Lebanese and an Egyptian sitting together then everyone of them would speak with his own dialect and it would be understood completly to the other. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| aquablue Senior Member United States Joined 6382 days ago 150 posts - 172 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 61 of 69 04 March 2010 at 11:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My interests are in the gulf states due to their fantastic development and standard of living. However, I want to be able to go to Lebanon and Egypt too and be able to understand. So, which dialect should I learn?
Edited by aquablue on 06 March 2010 at 3:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6229 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 62 of 69 27 September 2011 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
Work though FSI's Saudi/Hijazi Arabic course. It will give you a great base to work off of. Hijazi is ( so I am told) easily understood in the Levant and in Egypt. It is also pretty close to MSA in terms of vocabulary. The course is excellent and explains things very well. Couple this with the FSI series in Modern Written Arabic ( essentially MSA ) and you have an excellent ( and free!) foundation in Arabic. I am working through these courses right now and can understand Egyptian fairly well ... Levantine not as well but I haven't worked at it very hard. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4889 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 63 of 69 27 September 2011 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Arabic dialects remind me of Spanish and Portuguese. People who are fluent in one can understand the other, but those of us who are learning need to treat them distinctly. Same with Arabic. Egyptians and Lebanese native speakers can understand each other. But a beginning student who studies and speaks a bit of Levantine might not understand a word of Egyptian Arabic, and the Egyptians might not understand a word of your accent, even though it was fine in the Levant! I know this from experience. Start with learning the alphabet and basic sentence structure. Might as well use MSA books for this. Then, learn whichever dialect matches your interest. (and no one outside the Maghreb seems to understand anyone between Tripoli and Marrakesh). 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 64 of 69 28 September 2011 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
I worked through the FSI Hejazi course last year. The dialect does seem to be pretty comprehensible to Levantines and Egyptians, as well as not deviating much from MSA. More recently I have been concentrating on MSA itself. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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