napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5013 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 73 of 104 04 April 2014 at 3:50pm | IP Logged |
nancydowns wrote:
Ooooh, very nice, Napoleon! She goes into the handwriting techniques a little bit in the "mastering Arabic", but I kind of ignored it for now and
am trying to write like the font. But yours looks really good, very natural looking!
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Thanks Nancy.
I'm sorry if this sounds narcissistic: Yesterday, I spent a good 30 minutes staring at the page I'd uploaded earlier. Not reading. I just stared at the lines and the dots. I ran my hand over the lines and I couldn't believe I'd written it all myself. :)
nancydowns wrote:
Does it look like words to you, yet? I don't know how long it will take me before a page of Arabic doesn't just look like a bunch of squiggles
and actually starts to look like words. I keep telling myself that I am much further than I was in January! But it feels like a HUGE mountain!
But I guess I should take this mountain the same way I take a real mountain when I hike... One step at a time, and enjoy the scenery. :-)
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Some do. These are words I've read and written many times over. Like hadha and hadhihi.
But, I do make mistakes. The other day, I misread bint as bayt. They look the same. Only the dots are placed differently. :)
Thanks. :)
Edited by napoleon on 24 April 2014 at 6:41pm
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napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5013 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 74 of 104 06 April 2014 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
A quick update:
I'm halfway through DVD 4 (Madinah Book 1). I learnt about adjectives and compound pronouns.
I was amazed to learn that compound pronouns are actually mudaf and mudaf ilaihi. :)
kitabuhu(his book)=kitabu + hu
kitaby(my book)=kitab + y
where kitab is the mudaf and the pronoun is the mudaf ilayhi
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nancydowns Senior Member United States Joined 3919 days ago 184 posts - 288 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written)
| Message 75 of 104 13 April 2014 at 3:01pm | IP Logged |
Just a really quick post. I found an online dictionary that allows you to put in a few arabic letters and gives you all of the
entries for those starting letters. It is vocalized. I wonder if now that I am a "Senior Member" that I can post links here, we'll
see... The dictionary is here
I haven't really used it much, except for just a couple of words to try it out. Hope it turns out to be a useful tool!
edit: YAY! My link actually worked this time. I'm not a newbie anymore! It's like a teenager getting a driver's license as a rite of passage into
adulthood. Here, when we can finally post working links, it's a rite of passage into actually being a part of the forum! :-)
Edited by nancydowns on 13 April 2014 at 3:03pm
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napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5013 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 76 of 104 13 April 2014 at 3:23pm | IP Logged |
nancydowns wrote:
Just a really quick post. I found an online dictionary that allows you to put in a few arabic letters and gives you all of the
entries for those starting letters. It is vocalized. I wonder if now that I am a "Senior Member" that I can post links here, we'll
see... The dictionary is here
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Grat find! It's a great dictionary. Especially because it has the vowel signs.
nancydowns wrote:
...I'm not a newbie anymore! It's like a teenager getting a driver's license as a rite of passage into adulthood. Here, when we can finally post working links, it's a rite of passage into actually being a part of the forum! :-) |
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Yeah, it felt great when I became a senior member too. :)
Edited by napoleon on 13 April 2014 at 6:15pm
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napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5013 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 77 of 104 16 April 2014 at 7:51pm | IP Logged |
Watched lqtoronto's DVD 04 (Madinah Book 1) and did the exercises for lesson 9 (adjectives).
P.S.
I wasn't able to access the forum yesterday. Today, I used a workaround emk had tweeted and was finally able to log in.
What a fright it has been! I have taken backups of both my language logs.
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stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5829 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin
| Message 78 of 104 21 April 2014 at 3:55pm | IP Logged |
Haven't been following all of this thread so apologies if this has already been posted. An invaluable site for
conjugating Arabic verbs. Also has noun declensions.
inflect arabic
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napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5013 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 79 of 104 21 April 2014 at 4:39pm | IP Logged |
stelingo wrote:
Haven't been following all of this thread so apologies if this has already been posted. An invaluable site for
conjugating Arabic verbs. Also has noun declensions.
inflect arabic |
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Thanks. This site is going to be a great help. :)
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nancydowns Senior Member United States Joined 3919 days ago 184 posts - 288 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written)
| Message 80 of 104 23 April 2014 at 8:02pm | IP Logged |
Yes, thank you stelingo! We appreciate any help!
Napoleon, I am sorry I have been neglecting this log! I haven't been a very good study partner. I just updated my log with some of the things I have recently
learned from "Mastering Arabic." I am sorry that because I am using a different book, it makes it hard for us to discuss what we are learning and to help
motivate each other! I hope you can understand that I have a personal reason for not using the Madinah program. However, I know that it is probably very good,
especially with the lecture series along with it! So the best I can do to try to be a better study partner is to tell you what I am learning from my book.
I just learned about using the lam to show possession, counting, and the accusative case.
I am anxious for the next two chapters because they teach the three letter root, broken plurals, and the past tense! Kind of exciting to be getting to the past
tense!
I will try to upload another picture of my writing sometime. I am going to try writing more as a way of recalling vocab items that I can't keep in my memory.
Hope you are doing well in your studies. How are you splitting up your time between French and Arabic? I am spending much more time on Spanish than Arabic, but
I hope once I get through the two programs I am using with Spanish that I can up my time for Arabic and using reading and listening only for Spanish.
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