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
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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.
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mihaivancea wrote: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.
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NIKOLIĆ wrote:
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
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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!
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شكرا بزافMaiwenn wrote: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
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.Tristano wrote: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!
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