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 Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:23 am
Good luck with that. smile I remember it took me ages.
I'm going home tomorrow, I'm not sure when I'll be back again, so if you have any questions... I hope Kimyanji would pay this guild a visit. redface
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:35 am
Okay, well thank you very much for your help. =)
God bless!
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 4:23 pm
Bleh. I need to review the Arabic alphabet. Haven't glanced at it in ages. D:
I learned it Kayfa Haluki or sommat like that.... biggrin For How are you, t hat is.
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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 8:56 am
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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 1:16 pm
I took Arabic for like, three weeks, 15 days, 4+ hours a day...
And we still didn't learn much. Barely finished the alphabet...
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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 6:27 pm
I learned it "kayf haluk," but when I said it that way, my friend said that it was said "halek."
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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 7:22 pm
Meh. I learned MSA from a Moroccan, so there's bound to be some differences...
Kayfa Haaluk
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:09 am
All these dialects... What a mess.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 12:33 pm
I've heard that Moroccan Arabic is so different. I once saw a comparison of the names of the numbers. It was kind of scary.
Though I'm sure MSA is a whole lot more standardized (Well, of course--so it is named) because of TV and newspapers and the internet.
However, knowing MSA isn't useful for talking to people.
Heh, it's a lot more complicated than I thought it would be. ^^
Oh, and today I changed my keyboard settings so I could use it to type in Arabic. It's pretty handy. biggrin
Now, all I have to do is learn to write. . .
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:00 pm
I've forgotten the Arabic alphabet...
But you know what I think is so hard?
Trying to differentiate between 'ayin and 'alif, when they're right next to each other. D:
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:06 pm
Doppelgaanger I've forgotten the Arabic alphabet... But you know what I think is so hard? Trying to differentiate between 'ayin and 'alif, when they're right next to each other. D: ا and ع ?
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 9:10 pm
Yeah, here I'll find an example...
Edit: I suppose the oly example I could find was clock: shaa'aa or ساعة.
It's just crazy to try and spell it, if you don't already know how.
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:36 am
Doppelgaanger Yeah, here I'll find an example... Edit: I suppose the oly example I could find was clock: shaa'aa or ساعة. It's just crazy to try and spell it, if you don't already know how. ا here is mute. It only serves as a vowel. So it would be something like sa-Aah. Alif will always be silent, unless it appears as أ (or ئ, ؤ, ء - I don't know if you've gotten there, so I'm sorry if this is confusing to you). If it lacks that little symbol up there, it's only a vowel. For example, the word أَبِيَاض (white) - it's pronounced "abiyadh", and أ is a consonant while ا is a vowel. That being said, أ and ع sound really different, ع being more guttural. This might help you out. smile
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 6:22 pm
No, that makes sense, and I realize the sound very different, I can pronounce them okay, but we did some weird thing in class where you had to distinguish between them in a word when they were right next to eachother, and it was just really, gonk
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 3:41 am
Doppelgaanger No, that makes sense, and I realize the sound very different, I can pronounce them okay, but we did some weird thing in class where you had to distinguish between them in a word when they were right next to eachother, and it was just really, gonk Oh, I see. smile Sometimes is just takes some time and experience. It took me a long time to see the difference between د, ض and ظ, for example. xP
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