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| marvelgirll Newbie United States Joined 5134 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine) | Message 9 of 37 08 January 2011 at 11:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ugh, still not on track with my studies. Right now I'm on my grandparents' boat, visiting
them for the week. I've really only been managing to keep up with Anki but I'm hoping to have more frequent computer access now and do on chapter of Assimil until school starts again. Wish me luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Préposition Diglot Senior Member France aspectualpairs.wordp Joined 5107 days ago 186 posts - 283 votes  Speaks: French*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 10 of 37 09 January 2011 at 12:36am | IP Logged | ||
Good luck! I'm looking forward to reading more updates :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| marvelgirll Newbie United States Joined 5134 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine) | Message 11 of 37 09 January 2011 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm feeling a bit better already. Yesterday I did Assimil chapter 4 and the first unit of
Michel Thomas :) Dutch: 2 hours Arabic: 30 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| marvelgirll Newbie United States Joined 5134 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine) | Message 12 of 37 20 January 2011 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ah, getting back to school has been crazy. I'm really disappointed with how little I've
been accomplishing language-wise ): I had my first two Arabic classes and I still feel like my listening skills are hopeless. I have such a difficult time understanding anything the teacher says. I did Assimil Lesson 5 today for Dutch, as well as went through Anki for both Arabic and Dutch. Dutch: 1 hour Arabic: 30 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5166 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 13 of 37 22 January 2011 at 6:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi marvelgirll, good luck with your language studies!! Looking forward to your posts as
well. Also, are you studying both MSA and Levantine simultaneously? Are they very different? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5602 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 14 of 37 25 January 2011 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Marvelgirl, don't worry, your ear will get used to the sounds :) You've only had two classes after all! Hope you are starting to feel better about it already, good luck!
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| marvelgirll Newbie United States Joined 5134 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine) | Message 15 of 37 26 January 2011 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks! I'm not really studying Levantine dialect right now. I picked some up while I was in Lebanon over the summer and I intend to study in Syria next spring (2012), so I'll probably devote more time to it this upcoming summer and fall. As far as differences go, the grammar is much simpler and there are often different words for things. I think with more MSA under my belt it will be much easier to pick up. Edited by marvelgirll on 26 January 2011 at 2:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Préposition Diglot Senior Member France aspectualpairs.wordp Joined 5107 days ago 186 posts - 283 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 16 of 37 26 January 2011 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
They're quite different at first, mainly for the basic stuff, but the more complex you need to be, and the more you'll use MSA in dialectal :) For example "atakalam al-lughat al-arabiya" is "behki arabiy", "laakin" becomes "bas", "limaazha" becomes "leysh", etc. I remember having to translate an MSA extract in dialectal Arabic (it was a stupid exercise, urgh), and quite a lot of if was different. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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