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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6918 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 28 05 March 2007 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm trying to learn Arabic - Why is it taking so long?
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 28 05 March 2007 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Very accurate article. I can really empathise with the writer.
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| jrleahy Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6755 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French | Message 3 of 28 05 March 2007 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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It is all so very true!
It's strange how all my difficulties with Arabic can be disheartening at times and inspirational at others. Strange yet fitting at the same time. Arabic music is what keeps me going sometimes. ;) Who doesn't love a good Arabic pop song? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Guanche Hexaglot Senior Member Spain danielmarin.blogspot Joined 7045 days ago 168 posts - 178 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanC1, RussianB1, French, Japanese Studies: Greek, Mandarin, Arabic (Written) | Message 4 of 28 12 March 2007 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good point. I think Arabic is not particularly difficult. What makes it difficult is that there's no such thing as "standard Arabic". Therefore, when a student wants to master the language, he is confronted with classical Arabic and a dozen of regional "varieties" (different languages, actually) at the same time his teacher pretends that all those highly differentiated languages are in fact the one and only "standard Arabic". The best option is to pick up a specific "dialect" (egyptian, iraqi, etc.) and stick to it until you learn it. Then you can move on to other "dialect" if you wish...
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| Vinnie Groupie England Joined 6523 days ago 65 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 28 12 March 2007 at 12:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I one day want to learn modern standard arabic. i know it wont be easy but how hard will it be? and what sort of material are availiable to a person who wants to learn a language like arabic?(modern standard)
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 28 12 March 2007 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
I don't want to sound too discouraging but it will be very hard! Nevertheless, there are plenty of resources available for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), e.g. Assimil, Linguaphone, etc although not so many for the dialects (although there is FSI). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| biki2 Diglot Groupie United States vatoweb.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7021 days ago 57 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Arabic (Written), Catalan, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 7 of 28 12 March 2007 at 7:04pm | IP Logged | ||
Actually, I've found there are quite a few resources available for the dialects. They just aren't put out by the major course publishers, but rather by universities. Here are a few examples from my bookmarks (I'm sure there are more): Syrian/Levantine http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/sales/catalog/arabic/livingarabic http://syrianarabic.com/ http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?session=5b76d3072a2d 58a5b9b9ec2300e6fe81&cat=7&id=9781589010529 http://www.umich.edu/~langres/sales/flacs.html#levantine Egyptian http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/nalrc/resources/press/dardashatex t.htm http://www.umich.edu/~langres/sales/flacs.html#introE Moroccan http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?session=5b76d3072a2d 58a5b9b9ec2300e6fe81&cat=7&id=9781589010819 http://www.umich.edu/~langres/sales/flacs.html#moroccan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mga Groupie United States beastie.redirectme.n Joined 7122 days ago 67 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Arabic (Written) | Message 8 of 28 28 April 2007 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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