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| Al-Irelandi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5538 days ago 111 posts - 177 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 7 06 December 2009 at 4:50pm | IP Logged |
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Sun 6 Dec 2009
For Arabic today I plan to: -Aim to read some pages (maybe 1 juz (1 thirtieth)) of al-Qur'aan, and analyze it's i'3raab, balaaghah etc. -Aim to read a couple of pages from al-Tafsir as-Sa3di, and look up new vocab and annotate it into the book. -Aim to finish transcript of Aljazeera broadcast from a couple of weeks ago. -Read Alfiyyah bin Maalik, for both exposure to poetry and grammar (it teaches i3raab/sarf in poetry) -Maybe watch an Islamic lecture in Egyptian dialect Will update on exactly what I did do lol. إنشاء الله, سأحاول أن أكتب بالعربية, و طبعا, غايتي في هذا الشأن, استعمال العربية و تقرير ما كنت أفعل بنسبة دراستها. و بالله التوفيق. Edited by Al-Irelandi on 01 May 2010 at 12:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Al-Irelandi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5538 days ago 111 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 7 08 December 2009 at 2:10am | IP Logged |
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What I actually did do:
-read a couple of pages from al-Tafsir as-Sa3di, and look up new vocab and annotate it into the book. -watched an Arabic program in Fushaa, for approx 30-40 mins. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Al-Irelandi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5538 days ago 111 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 7 09 December 2009 at 12:49am | IP Logged |
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8/12/2009
-Read a few pages of al-Qur'aan -Read alTafsir-AsSa3di, looked up some new words -Watched a bit of an Egyptian film: Habeebee Naiman -Watched al-Jazeerah Atfaal, for about 1.5 hours -Skimmed through Teach Yourself Gulf Arabic, to see if there was anything I could pick up. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Al-Irelandi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5538 days ago 111 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 7 29 March 2010 at 2:03pm | IP Logged |
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Long time no see my LLL.
Tayyib, since December I have: Arabic: -Carried on reading al-Qur'aan and other Islamic books, for increasing my Arabic Fushaa input load, underlining unknown words for a time when I can actually tolerate looking them up in al-Mawrid or al-Muhiit to get their finer details and then SRS them via Anki. -Translated portions of a classical text, at-Tafseer-as-Sa3dee -Continued with my Aljazeera transcript...but still not yet finished it. -Been watching the musalsal/TV series: Baab-ul-Haarah III for more spoken Shaami/Syrian input. -Been reading aljazeera.net and other media outlets for more current Arabic usage whilst 'Babelfish-ing' unknown words. -Been getting plenty of spoken practice as per usual. -Skimmed through a couple of grammars and TY Gulf Arabic. -Been listening to some talks on my MP3 player. -Watched most of Najeeb Mahfoodhv's screen adaption of al-Liss wal-Kilaab and benefited from boosting my understanding of the Egyptian dialect. Now I've got some time off from my higher studies, I intend to devote a whole week to intensive reading in Arabic. Edited by Al-Irelandi on 29 March 2010 at 2:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Al-Irelandi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5538 days ago 111 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 7 29 March 2010 at 2:18pm | IP Logged |
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As for Spanish, I started at the end of last Summer.
-I completed most of Pimsleur Spanish I and then went onto the second level after getting bored of the pace of the first. -Been reading the Berlitz Self Teacher Spanish, which is an excellent reader, as well as 'Historias de España' which is a bilingual reader. -Been flicking through Barron's '501 Spanish Verbs' which has all of them conjugated. -Been reading through the Oxford Spanish Dictionary & Grammar, through the grammar section (I don't believe in reading dictionaries as novels) to clear up my understanding of Spanish's utilisation of modes and tenses, so as to facilitate my learning. -Been reading Wikipedia and various websites connected to my areas of interest e.g Manga, Anime, Languages etc, all in the Spanish language. -Had a little bit of spoken practice and have been able to 'eavesdrop' on the Latinos round my way honing in on my listening skills. -Been watching various cartoons such as 'Belle y Sebastian', 'Transformers Animated', and 'Naruto' in Spanish. -Have started to read the Manga comic 'Naruto' in Spanish, so as to get a taste of the spoken/conversational written form, an idea that I took from Tim Ferris, who likes getting Mangas in his target language when tackling a new language. -Made some partial attempts at transcribing the cartoon 'Transformers Animated', but due to the lack of clarity of the sound, I'm going to move on to transcribing 'Naruto'. I've come far from last year, I mean I can easilly read Spanish, looking up new words as I go, and in some respects I find it too transparent for my liking, but hey Spanish was intended to be my vehicle to make further inroads into the rest of the Romance languages. I'm going to give Spanish a weeks treatment too, that is after I'm done with dealing with Arabic for a week prior, hasta la vista. Edited by Al-Irelandi on 29 March 2010 at 2:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| global_gizzy Senior Member United States maxcollege.blogspot. Joined 5706 days ago 275 posts - 310 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 7 29 March 2010 at 10:15pm | IP Logged |
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As Salaamualiakkum!
I take it you're Muslim, me too :). Just wanted to say I found your LLlog and that Alhamdulillah, I hope that Allah grants you lots of success. I'm currently working on Spanish, outside of the classes I take at school, I am learning from (Pimsleur One, thought I'm only on lesson 4 I am worried I wont learn much from level 1...I'm gonna go through a few lessons a day until I get to the level that will teach me something) I learned (and forget) basic Fusha Arabic a few years ago. I have taken lessons off and on throughout my childhood but it wasn't until I was 16 and my whole family took an Intensive Beginners class over the summer using the Gateway to Arabic series that I got any good. At the end of the Summer, I was able to perform a short play in Arabic and understand alot of conversational Arabic spoken at the mosque) I plan to go back through the entire Gateway series and start speaking Arabic with many of my Arabic speaking friends. I want to double minor in both Arabic and Spanish at University. Keep up the good work, the only thing I know how to do in Arabic right now is read Quran, which while good, is also a handicap because I cant read without the vowels...How did you learn to read without them? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Al-Irelandi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5538 days ago 111 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 7 31 March 2010 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
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Wa 3alaykumu-ssalaam,
Baarakallaahu feek. I cannot honestly remember when I started reading without vowels but it was probably some 6 years ago, and was a mixture of looking words up in the dictionary and studying the awzaan (plural of wazn) of the words. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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