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| Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6240 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes  14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish | Message 1 of 27 19 November 2008 at 6:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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Because of recent developments in my private life, learning Arabic has become somewhat of a necessity.
I have studied some a couple of weeks ago, but my knowledge is fairly limited. Extremely limited. I have decided to put everything on hold until December 1st (EDIT: December 31st) and see how far I can get. All Arabic All The Time says it all, I think. What I DO know: - The Arabic script (including typing in Arabic) - about 100 words (if even) - how to pronounce 98% of the phonemes correctly - the most simple grammatical constructs -- Where do I want to be after dedicating every day until December 1st to my Arabic studies? I don't know, honestly. Time will tell me where I am. I'm quite confident, though; I've spent so much time slacking on this forum, reading about this and that method... Now I finally put them to use - I have created a 1000 plans in my head on how to learn efficiently, so here I go. Every time I feel I hit a 'milestone', I will report here. Edited by Gilgamesh on 01 December 2008 at 10:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6107 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 2 of 27 19 November 2008 at 7:12am | IP Logged | |||||
Oh, it's finally time that you realize - the hard way! - that all that is said in this forum is just empty chatting, that none of the methods suggested here really work. ;-)
Seriously now, good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 3 of 27 19 November 2008 at 7:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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Good luck!
If you were going for Egyptian, I could give you my Knuckles-in-Chinaland Egyptian-German vocab file... Are you going to do a 30-day boost on Myngle as well? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6240 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes 14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish | Message 4 of 27 19 November 2008 at 7:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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As I pointed out to you at the Offline HTLAL Meeting, I will start with MSA.
Thanks for the offer, though. As to the Myngle boost - I have to figure out a way to pay... OK, I'm off to study now! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6240 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes 14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish | Message 5 of 27 20 November 2008 at 9:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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The course I'm mainly using is the Living Languages Ultimate Arabic course. So far, so good.
The bad thing is that one of the speakers gets a lot of the phonemes wrong (a native speaker confirmed this) which even made me wonder if she's a native speaker at all. I think she pronounces things a little "American" sometimes... Why would they do something like this? It makes no sense and repeating after her/copying her speech is not something I feel comfortable with anymore. -- Even though I hadn't done anything for weeks when I took up my studies again yesterday, I found that I could write the first three dialogues from memory. I made a lot of spelling mistakes, though mostly minor ones. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6673 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 6 of 27 20 November 2008 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's what a criticize in this forum. http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=10024&KW=time+ A lot of time wasted looking for best methods, but people are learning languages from their USAGE of their target languages. As long as your method have lots of input and output, you only need TIME and intensity. Suerte. Edited by slucido on 20 November 2008 at 2:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6240 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes 14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish | Message 7 of 27 22 November 2008 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Today was a good day for learning, though not a great one. I looked at the major grammatical points (verb stems, etc. - personal pronouns - posessive suffixes), did some vocabulary training with mnemosyne (which really helped me) and learnt the numbers 1-10 (tomorrow -> 11-100)... Learning today has been a great delight and kind of a re-discovery, too - I didn't know one could have so much "fun" doing it. I guess it's really been awhile...
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 8 of 27 22 November 2008 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
Good work. Here's to 11-100! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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