NIKOLIĆ's log: An exercise in futility (Arabic, Romanian)

[NIKOLIĆ]

Completed lesson #16 of DLI's Syrian Arabic course which brings me to the end of Module 4.
Some of the words that I learned in this lesson were:

نظرية- theory
الفضا الخارجي- outer space, universe
مغارة- grotto, cave
شكّ- to doubt
هيكل- temple
مدهش- amazing

I also made a recording of me reading a story about a poor Englishman that just couldn't learn to speak Arabic to save his life.

Colloqial Arabic - A story



edit: typos

[mihaivancea]

Congrats on your progress with Romanian. If you want to practice the language there is no need to go to Romania, you can also visit Timočka Krajina, a lot of people speak the language there.

[NIKOLIĆ]

Congrats on your progress with Romanian.

Thank you.

If you want to practice the language there is no need to go to Romania, you can also visit Timočka Krajina, a lot of people speak the language there.

I know, but full immersion is what I'm looking for. Even though I have a native speaker at home with whom I can practice, we ran out of topics to discuss a long time ago, and when the going gets tough I star slipping in more and more Serbian words and phrases. I'd love to be in an environment in which I'm forced to speak only Romanian.

[Maiwenn]

I also made a recording of me reading a story about a poor Englishman that just couldn't learn to speak Arabic to save his life.

Colloqial Arabic - A story

I had my partner listen to this recording and he said, "that's a Syrian, I think." I told him, no, that you were learning Syrian Arabic. "But he lived there, right?" No. He is extremely impressed with your accent تبارقالله

[Tristano]

Hey man, it's good to see you again in the forum (I can't remember any post of you for quite a long time, but it is possibly my fault). How is going with Romanian? I have it a shot this year, learned quite a bit of it in very little time, enough to be able to listen to native podcasts and understanding what is going on, then realizing I didn't have many possibilities to practice it in real life and moved on a much more practical and useful to me language to learn (German), got addicted again. It looks you are doing great with Arabic!

[NIKOLIĆ]

I had my partner listen to this recording and he said, "that's a Syrian, I think." I told him, no, that you were learning Syrian Arabic. "But he lived there, right?" No. He is extremely impressed with your accent

شكرا بزاف

Hey man, it's good to see you again in the forum (I can't remember any post of you for quite a long time, but it is possibly my fault). How is going with Romanian? I have it a shot this year, learned quite a bit of it in very little time, enough to be able to listen to native podcasts and understanding what is going on, then realizing I didn't have many possibilities to practice it in real life and moved on a much more practical and useful to me language to learn (German), got addicted again. It looks you are doing great with Arabic!

It's going well. My progress is a bit slow, but it's there. I've just been lurking and liking (hearting?) people's posts. Couldn't be bothered to actually post anything. Glad to hear you're back to learning German, but I hope Romanian wasn't just a one-time fling.