Another Team Middle East participant joining in - I'm learning Modern Hebrew. Currently, I'm using a mix of Anki, Duolingo, Clozemaster, and Pimsleur (Level 1) to study. You can read more about what I'm doing in my log.
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Hi team!
Another Team Middle East participant joining in - I'm learning Modern Hebrew. Currently, I'm using a mix of Anki, Duolingo, Clozemaster, and Pimsleur (Level 1) to study. You can read more about what I'm doing in my log.To world domination Err, I mean continued language success!
Another Team Middle East participant joining in - I'm learning Modern Hebrew. Currently, I'm using a mix of Anki, Duolingo, Clozemaster, and Pimsleur (Level 1) to study. You can read more about what I'm doing in my log.
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!مرحبا
Hey, team! I'm new around here but I'm excited to share my passion for language with others. I've found I'm best motivated when I have another people to talk to not just about the language but the process of learning a language in general.
I am currently studying MSA and Egyptian Arabic. One day I wish to be a translator, hence my reason for learning MSA, but my best friend is native Egyptian and this time next year I should be in Cairo visiting her and would love to surprise her by speaking her native language, if only a little!
You can call me Jac or Jacque. I'm excited to work with everyone!
Hey, team! I'm new around here but I'm excited to share my passion for language with others. I've found I'm best motivated when I have another people to talk to not just about the language but the process of learning a language in general.
I am currently studying MSA and Egyptian Arabic. One day I wish to be a translator, hence my reason for learning MSA, but my best friend is native Egyptian and this time next year I should be in Cairo visiting her and would love to surprise her by speaking her native language, if only a little!
You can call me Jac or Jacque. I'm excited to work with everyone!
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jacquemarie wrote:!مرحبا
Hey, team! I'm new around here but I'm excited to share my passion for language with others. I've found I'm best motivated when I have another people to talk to not just about the language but the process of learning a language in general.
I am currently studying MSA and Egyptian Arabic. One day I wish to be a translator, hence my reason for learning MSA, but my best friend is native Egyptian and this time next year I should be in Cairo visiting her and would love to surprise her by speaking her native language, if only a little!
You can call me Jac or Jacque. I'm excited to work with everyone!
!Jacque שלום
Welcome to the group. That sounds like a really cool motivating factor - I’m sure your friend will be excited
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Pimsleur Level 2:
FSI :
Clozemaster 101-500 Most Common Words:
Srugim Season 3:
1100 hours of study/input :
Pimsleur Level 2:
FSI :
Clozemaster 101-500 Most Common Words:
Srugim Season 3:
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שלום חברים! החלטתי לכתוב משהו בעברית. אני כותב בגוגל תרגום בעברית ומתרגם את זה לאנגלית. אני יכול לראות הטעויות הגדולות ביותר שלי. אולי מישהו יעזור אותי ויבדוק מה שאני כתבתי. אני מקווה שגם אתם תתחילו לכתוב בשפה הזאת. הקבוצה של המזרח התיכון צריך להיות יותר פעילה
أهلا وسهلا ومرحبا يا اصدقاء!
I would like also encourage Arabic learners to use the thread as writing practice. Unfortunately writing such an encouragement in Arabic is currently far more above my level of the language. But maybe someday I will be able to post my thoughts in Arabic also
أهلا وسهلا ومرحبا يا اصدقاء!
I would like also encourage Arabic learners to use the thread as writing practice. Unfortunately writing such an encouragement in Arabic is currently far more above my level of the language. But maybe someday I will be able to post my thoughts in Arabic also
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- PeterMollenburg
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Hi all,
Following MattNeilson’s recommendation (thank you), I’d like to join.
I’ll be learning MSA and Saudi (Najdi dialect) Arabic.
I’m a complete beginner, don’t know a single letter, word, phrase or phoneme yet.
I am not sure learning MSA alongside a Saudi dialect is a great idea, due to time constraints. In many ways, I’d be better off learning just the dialect for a while as my family and I will be living in Saudi for a while. However, resources are extremely few for Saudi varieties, so adding MSA seems logical.
If anyone has any suggestions for Saudi Arabic ressources, I’d really appreciate it. Additionally, I’d like to use mainly or even exclusively French base-language ressources, but I can’t be fussy with dialect, as there is so little available for Najdi.
edit: wrongly spelled MattNeilson
Following MattNeilson’s recommendation (thank you), I’d like to join.
I’ll be learning MSA and Saudi (Najdi dialect) Arabic.
I’m a complete beginner, don’t know a single letter, word, phrase or phoneme yet.
I am not sure learning MSA alongside a Saudi dialect is a great idea, due to time constraints. In many ways, I’d be better off learning just the dialect for a while as my family and I will be living in Saudi for a while. However, resources are extremely few for Saudi varieties, so adding MSA seems logical.
If anyone has any suggestions for Saudi Arabic ressources, I’d really appreciate it. Additionally, I’d like to use mainly or even exclusively French base-language ressources, but I can’t be fussy with dialect, as there is so little available for Najdi.
edit: wrongly spelled MattNeilson
Last edited by PeterMollenburg on Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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- Location: Sunnyvale, CA
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Hebrew (studying - beginner)
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Mandarin (mostly forgotten) - Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=8869
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PeterMollenburg wrote:Hi all,
Following MattNielson’s recommendation (thank you), I’d like to join.
I’ll be learning MSA and Saudi (Najdi dialect) Arabic.
I’m a complete beginner, don’t know a single letter, word, phrase or phoneme yet.
I am not sure learning MSA alongside a Saudi dialect is a great idea, due to time constraints. In many ways, I’d be better off learning just the dialect for a while as my family and I will be living in Saudi for a while. However, resources are extremely few for Saudi varieties, so adding MSA seems logical.
If anyone has any suggestions for Saudi Arabic ressources, I’d really appreciate it. Additionally, I’d like to use mainly or even exclusively French base-language ressources, but I can’t be fussy with dialect, as there is so little available for Najdi.
Welcome, PM! I know cjareck and Ogrim are both learning Arabic right now, though I don’t remember which dialects.
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Pimsleur Level 2:
FSI :
Clozemaster 101-500 Most Common Words:
Srugim Season 3:
1100 hours of study/input :
Pimsleur Level 2:
FSI :
Clozemaster 101-500 Most Common Words:
Srugim Season 3:
1100 hours of study/input :
- cjareck
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PeterMollenburg wrote:Following MattNielson’s recommendation (thank you), I’d like to join.
A great idea. We have to revive the group
PeterMollenburg wrote:I’ll be learning MSA and Saudi (Najdi dialect) Arabic.
I’m a complete beginner, don’t know a single letter, word, phrase or phoneme yet.
I am not sure learning MSA alongside a Saudi dialect is a great idea, due to time constraints. In many ways, I’d be better off learning just the dialect for a while as my family, and I will be living in Saudi for a while. However, resources are extremely few for Saudi varieties, so adding MSA seems logical.
You have chosen an interesting dialect. I thought I could recommend something on Saudi Arabic to you, but it is, unfortunately, a different dialect - Hijazi:
https://www.livelingua.com/courses/Arab ... i-Dialect/
I am learning Arabic, but MSA only now. I decided at first to learn it and perhaps later to continue with Egyptian and maybe Syrian dialects. I can recommend FSI/DLI courses, but they are based on English, not on French.
For example this:
http://hs2.dliflc.edu/msa.html is quite an interesting, modern basic course on MSA.
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- PeterMollenburg
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MattNeilson wrote:Welcome, PM! I know cjareck and Ogrim are both learning Arabic right now, though I don’t remember which dialects.
Thank you MattNeilson
cjareck wrote:PeterMollenburg wrote:Following MattNielson’s recommendation (thank you), I’d like to join.
A great idea. We have to revive the groupPeterMollenburg wrote:I’ll be learning MSA and Saudi (Najdi dialect) Arabic.
I’m a complete beginner, don’t know a single letter, word, phrase or phoneme yet.
I am not sure learning MSA alongside a Saudi dialect is a great idea, due to time constraints. In many ways, I’d be better off learning just the dialect for a while as my family, and I will be living in Saudi for a while. However, resources are extremely few for Saudi varieties, so adding MSA seems logical.
You have chosen an interesting dialect. I thought I could recommend something on Saudi Arabic to you, but it is, unfortunately, a different dialect - Hijazi:
https://www.livelingua.com/courses/Arab ... i-Dialect/
I am learning Arabic, but MSA only now. I decided at first to learn it and perhaps later to continue with Egyptian and maybe Syrian dialects. I can recommend FSI/DLI courses, but they are based on English, not on French.
For example this:
http://hs2.dliflc.edu/msa.html is quite an interesting, modern basic course on MSA.
Thanks cjareck,
Learning MSA will be a piece of cake (there are enough resources), while learning Najdi dialect is going to be extremely difficult. There are almost NO resources. This could be a massive exercise in italki/ seeking out locals to converse with/ using other close dialect resources and adapting my speech? (I could yet wind up trying the FSI Hijazi course).
For my situation, learning the dialect makes most sense (I’ll be on location), but I can’t make it up (no resources), so MSA will, by default, be studied.
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talkinarabic.com say they teach 'saudi arabic'.PeterMollenburg wrote:If anyone has any suggestions for Saudi Arabic ressources, I’d really appreciate it. Additionally, I’d like to use mainly or even exclusively French base-language ressources, but I can’t be fussy with dialect, as there is so little available for Najdi.
(i've not used it myself)
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cjareck wrote:You have chosen an interesting dialect. I thought I could recommend something on Saudi Arabic to you, but it is, unfortunately, a different dialect - Hijazi:
https://www.livelingua.com/courses/Arab ... i-Dialect/
I think that learning the other Saudi dialects would be useful as a backup if there are not enough Najdi dialect materials available. The other Saudi dialects are the Hijazi dialect on the west coast and Gulf Arabic on the east coast. Probably, I would start with the FSI Saudi Arabic (Hijazi) course.
Learning MSA should also be useful. The transliteration of the Arabic script can be helpful at first, but do yourself a favor and learn the Arabic script. It is not as hard as it initially seems because it is completely phonetic. Therefore, it is possible to know how to pronounce each word correctly just by looking at the script although you may sometimes need a dictionary to know how to pronounce the short vowels (diacritical marks). That is because the short vowels are not written in most books.
I have used the FSI Saudi Arabic (Hijazi) course a little bit, and found it to be excellent. I did not get really far in it because I have mostly been learning Egyptian and Levantine Arabic. Right now, I am going through the course 'Speaking Arabic: A Course in Conversational Eastern Arabic (Palestinian)' by J. Elihay. Also, I read books in Classical Arabic and read the BBC to get practice with news articles.
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