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| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5697 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes  Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 1 of 10 08 March 2010 at 8:41pm | IP Logged |
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I did study Arabic three times until lesson six in the Assimil course, edition +/- 1975. 20 years ago, 5 y. ago
and 2 y. ago. Now I'm taking lessons on the internet. I'm receiving powerpoint presentations with sound and exercises to write the arabic letters and simple words. I've the idea the professor is beginning with the sounds that we know in our language f.e. N, A, R, F, I (i), U, M ... To me it gives the impression I'm in first class of the little children's school. The letters are rather big on screen and on paper. But I've to trust the professor that he is acting right, having 15 years of experience in teaching arabic to foreigners. Learning each day some letters and some words, listening-reading-writing, I think that in three or four weeks I will finish 35 lessons and be able to decipher any arabic word. I'll have learnt maybe 300 words and I'll be have some introduction to plurals, verb forms and more I don't know yet. We have contact via a Skype-like system. I can ask questions a.s.o.. I wonder where this is going to bring me but I'm confident and I like to support other members who are beginning just now. Most difficult yet is not writing, even not reading but to remember the meaning of every single word, because it is generally without any possible relation to my own language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kinan Diglot Senior Member Syrian Arab Republic Joined 5566 days ago 234 posts - 279 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, English Studies: Russian, Spanish | Message 2 of 10 08 March 2010 at 8:57pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck to you in that.
I agree,the most difficult task is remembering the meaning of the words as they are not related at all to any other language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| gelan Newbie Egypt Joined 5375 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 3 of 10 12 March 2010 at 2:37pm | IP Logged |
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i wish you success in learning arabic, i can help you in learning arabic
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| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5697 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 4 of 10 13 March 2010 at 1:45pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you very much, Gelan!
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 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 5 of 10 13 March 2010 at 2:04pm | IP Logged |
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I developed my own system for learning a foreign script, and applied it successfully for
Greek and Korean. I started creating similar lessons for Arabic but this is still under construction. Maybe you'll find the method helpful anyway. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5697 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 10 13 March 2010 at 5:38pm | IP Logged |
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Of course. Any help will be welcome.
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| incorporeality Newbie United States Joined 5374 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 10 22 March 2010 at 2:31am | IP Logged |
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staf250,
I would definitely recommend Awde and Samano's The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read it and Write it. I began studying Arabic about a month ago from a cold start and picked this book up (among many others!) from my local library. I worked through it in about five or six days, by which time I felt comfortable recognizing (if not always pronouncing comfortably!) all the letters of the alphabet. I know there are a lot of little books out there for this kind of thing, and maybe they all work just as well and my success here would have happened no matter the book I had chosen. Nevertheless, I feel this book was for me a great introduction to the script. Good luck with your studies! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5697 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 8 of 10 22 March 2010 at 11:40am | IP Logged |
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Thank You Blake (incorporeality).
I wish you success and luck studying Arabic. سلام ستاف 1 person has voted this message useful |
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