Learning Arabic through the koran (Questions About Your Target Languages) Language Learning Forum

Learning Arabic through the koran
Tags: L3 via L2 \| Arabic
Share with: Delicious Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon
Language Learning Forum : Questions About Your Target Languages

20 messages over 3 pages: 1 2 3

Al-Irelandi
Senior Member
United Kingdom
Joined 5543 days ago
111 posts - 177 votes

Speaks: English*

Message 17 of 20

09 November 2009 at 4:45pm | IP Logged

MostDef wrote:

Well apparently Qu'ranic Arabic and MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) are apparently very similar and dont vary a great deal from one another. Modern Standard Arabic being the language of Newspapers,News Broadcasts and books in much of the Arab world rather then colloquial dialects.

True, the so called 'MSA' is really in fact fushaa or 'Classical'. 'MSA' really just refers to Arabic's usage in the media. One can be speaking Fushaa and still be considered speaking 'MSA' and vice-versa.
1 person has voted this message useful

FuroraCeltica
Triglot
Senior Member
United Kingdom
Joined 6873 days ago
1187 posts - 1427 votes

Speaks: English*, Spanish, French

Message 18 of 20

10 November 2009 at 9:56am | IP Logged

I have heard that learning Arabic from the Qu'ran is like learning English from Shakespeare i.e. rather archaic language.
1 person has voted this message useful

Al-Irelandi
Senior Member
United Kingdom
Joined 5543 days ago
111 posts - 177 votes

Speaks: English*

Message 19 of 20

20 November 2009 at 8:25pm | IP Logged

FuroraCeltica wrote:

I have heard that learning Arabic from the Qu'ran is like learning English from Shakespeare i.e. rather archaic language.

Hmmm. The thing is that much of the Qur'aan is used in everyday literary Arabic and broadcasts etc, and much of it's vocab, style phrases are still used in these fields. It's not a dead language like that of Shakespeares.
1 person has voted this message useful

Al-Malik
Bilingual Heptaglot
Senior Member
United Kingdom
arabicgenie.com
Joined 7142 days ago
221 posts - 294 votes

1 sounds
Speaks: English*, German*, Spanish, Arabic (Written), Dutch, French, Arabic (classical)
Studies: Mandarin, Persian

Message 20 of 20

21 November 2009 at 11:54am | IP Logged

FuroraCeltica wrote:

I have heard that learning Arabic from the Qu'ran is like learning English from Shakespeare i.e. rather archaic language.

As al-Irlandee rightly points out, the language of the Koran is still alive in the modern language. However, given the fact that most of the Koran is written in a poetic rather than prosaic style, it can sometimes seem foreign to the modern language. That's largely a stylistic thing, though, and most of the words and grammar are still applicable today.

2 persons have voted this message useful

This discussion contains 20 messages over 3 pages: << Prev 1 2 3

If you wish to post a reply to this topic you must first login. If you are not already registered you must first register

Printable version

You cannot post new topics in this forum - You cannot reply to topics in this forum - You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum - You cannot create polls in this forum - You cannot vote in polls in this forum

This page was generated in 0.4844 seconds.