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Arabic and missing short vowels
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Renaçido
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Canada
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25 December 2011 at 8:18pm | IP Logged

Camundonguinho wrote:

Ths s wrd. W cld wrt Nglsh n ths wy.

This is weird. We could write English in this way.
But, you have to master spoken English 1st in order to write it like this.

Nope, as I explained in my long-ass post before, this isn't how it goes. Arabic doesn't only write consonants in the first place, geez...

[Th]s is weird. We cld write Englsh in [th]s wy.

^This is more like it, but still doen't come close to actually learning Arabic.
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Zireael
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23 February 2013 at 8:18pm | IP Logged

Reviving an old thread to say it isn't that hard if you don't use half-measures and crutches and start with unvowelled texts. I've got 3 months of Arabic under my belt and the missing short vowels don't scare me, the lack of good online dictionaries does!
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