translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6736 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 1 of 8 18 November 2010 at 4:05pm | IP Logged |
Video Arabic Lesson
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5137 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 2 of 8 18 November 2010 at 5:46pm | IP Logged |
Must be a special Arabic dialect. :-)
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translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6736 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 3 of 8 18 November 2010 at 6:16pm | IP Logged |
Are there any dialects that use "hee" instead of "hiya" or "heya", "nahan" instead of naHnu, or "ham" instead of "hum"?
I also don't understand this lesson about verb endings:
Arabic Verb Endings
Edited by translator2 on 18 November 2010 at 6:29pm
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slhdn Diglot Newbie Turkey Joined 5548 days ago 20 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: French, Arabic (classical)
| Message 4 of 8 18 November 2010 at 6:39pm | IP Logged |
Teacher better took lessons himself.
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5137 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 5 of 8 18 November 2010 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
translator2 wrote:
Are there any dialects that use "hee" instead of "hiya" or "heya", "nahan" instead of naHnu, or "ham" instead of "hum"? |
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I thought you were joking. These older videos were posted by our very own Cesare M, who is definitely not qualified to teach Arabic.
If you're looking for serious videos try the Al Medina series. They are a bit boring, but linguistically OK.
Edited by Doitsujin on 18 November 2010 at 7:55pm
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translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6736 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 6 of 8 18 November 2010 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
;-)
Doitsujin wrote:
I thought you were joking. |
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The letter used to represent "t" in Arabic looks very strange. Is this an Indian script perhaps? Arabic script
Edited by translator2 on 19 November 2010 at 9:37pm
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CaucusWolf Senior Member United States Joined 5089 days ago 191 posts - 234 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Written), Japanese
| Message 7 of 8 19 November 2010 at 11:23pm | IP Logged |
Doitsujin wrote:
Must be a special Arabic dialect. :-) |
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Yea I had to laugh when I heard the video too. Here's some courses you should try.
http://www.madinaharabic.com/ and
http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Arabic% 20Written
The link for FSI is only for the texts the audio at least for the 1st and 2nd book is
http://www.al3arabiya.info/2010/02/fsi-modern-written-arabic -basic-course.html and
http://www.al3arabiya.info/2010/02/fsi-modern-written-arabic -volume-2.html
I haven't found the 3rd books audio but let me know if you do.
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6196 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 8 of 8 20 November 2010 at 1:51pm | IP Logged |
If you don't have anything nice to say...
Edited by newyorkeric on 20 November 2010 at 1:53pm
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