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| lindseylbb Bilingual Triglot Groupie ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4930 days ago 92 posts - 126 votes  Speaks: Mandarin*, Cantonese*, English Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 1 of 3 03 November 2012 at 10:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Arabic pronuciation is driving me crazy.. There're too many sounds I can't distinguised and I lost the tapes for the first part (ie introduction to pronunciation and writing.) And it seems nowhere to be found on the internet. I found FSI Levantine Arabic Pronuciation student text, though. I know different Arabic dialects have different sounds, but do they read the text the same? Can I rely on it to improve my MAS pronunciation?
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| morinkhuur Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4675 days ago 79 posts - 157 votes Speaks: German*, Latin, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi) | Message 2 of 3 03 November 2012 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would try to find a different pronounciation guide for MSA as some of the sounds that are probably hard for you to
distinguish are not distinguished in many dialects and some MSA sounds are not used at all. Maybe it would help you to look at exact descriptions of the places of articulation and isolated recordings of the difficult sounds. You can find those on wikipedia. What also helps to distinguish between emphatic an unemphatic letters (e.g. د vs. ض) is that the following vowel tends to be "darker" after an emphatic consonant, e.g. صيف (summer) sounds like [sˤɑjf] while سيف (sword) sound like [sæjf]. The same thing sometimes happens with ك/ق or even with خ/ح. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lindseylbb Bilingual Triglot Groupie ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4930 days ago 92 posts - 126 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, Cantonese*, English Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 3 of 3 03 November 2012 at 2:31pm | IP Logged | ||
You made me want to quite distinguish them at all.. After all dialects are what we are heading for eventually. If they don't distinguish them, why should I? Anyway I should try your method sometime. Hope that would help!^^ 1 person has voted this message useful |
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