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| vinz Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 6826 days ago 55 posts - 56 votes  Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Vietnamese, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 17 of 27 03 May 2006 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't mind people hijacking the thread as long as it has to deal with the topic at hand (ie: Arabic and dialects...). Finals are now over. I can finally finish the book and keep on studying :) I am using that Syrian Colloquial ebook with the mp3s. I am also using my friends. A lot.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6958 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 27 04 May 2006 at 6:01am | IP Logged | ||
I downloaded it a while ago but haven't looked at it yet. Is it any good? Actually, even if it isn't, who cares since it's free! Edited by patuco on 04 May 2006 at 6:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vinz Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 6826 days ago 55 posts - 56 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Vietnamese, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 19 of 27 04 May 2006 at 12:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's pretty good. My Lebanese friends told me they use quite "formal" greetings and other structures, but that's because Lebanese people rarely use them. I tend to learn from the book and then go back to my friends to 'lebanize' what I learned. And yes, it's free so who cares :)
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| pieces of rain Bilingual Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 6733 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Croatian, English* Studies: Arabic (Written)* Studies: French | Message 20 of 27 15 May 2006 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think I've got the alphabet now! I've worked through Awde's book, a reader my friend left me, and am currently practicing the Fatiha (learning to read and pronounce). Ready to purchase my first "real" course. Thanks again for your help.
I have one last question: it seems that there are a few different editions available of Arabic with Ease. I found one from 2004, another from 1994, another from 1985. Is there a large difference between these editions? Do you know if any of them is especially better or worse than the others? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6958 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 27 16 May 2006 at 6:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't have any of these editions but I seem to remember Ardaschir mentioning in another thread that the best Assimil courses were those from the eighties. I don't think that it really matters that much, so if you have to choose between them, go for the cheapest!
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| pieces of rain Bilingual Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 6733 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Croatian, English* Studies: Arabic (Written)* Studies: French | Message 22 of 27 19 May 2006 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Makes sense to me.
I just found out that my library has a copy of Arabic with Ease. It arrived only a week ago. I've put it on hold, and plan on playing with it, trying it out for a few weeks. While reviewing, of course... I don't want to really *start* a course right now, because I have final exams at school in a few weeks. I'll let you know what I think about the program! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6469 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 23 of 27 12 March 2007 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used the booklet that came with the linguaphone course to learn the script, doing all the exercises. It's well planned out, and provides plently of practice: within a few days I had it down, and from then on I copied out the texts in the course to practice writing. The linguaphone course is good a start, teaches almost 2000 words and all the import grammar in an intelligent way.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6958 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 24 of 27 12 March 2007 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | ||
Really! I found that the Linguaphone method of learning the alphabet was confusing me so I used other resources to learn before carrying on with the rest of the course. Edited by patuco on 12 March 2007 at 6:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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