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Kimyanji

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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:15 am

واين العربي؟
ودي ان يرجع الناس هنا

The funny thing is, this statement would sound different in Sudanese vs. Modern Standard...

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:13 pm

Assalamu alaikum peeps! If anyone can help me to learn more arabic without confusing me that would be very much appreciated. Right now I'm visiting Morocco and my parents want me to be able to at least hold a short conversation with them in arabic by the time I get back to the USA and as of right now the only phrase I've been using most of the time is "Manaraf Arabia" (i don't know arabic)

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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:14 pm

Kimyanji

واين العربي؟
ودي ان يرجع الناس هنا

The funny thing is, this statement would sound different in Sudanese vs. Modern Standard...

could you translate that statement and what does your sig say?

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:56 pm

Pomnuria Garjzla

Assalamu alaikum peeps! If anyone can help me to learn more arabic without confusing me that would be very much appreciated. Right now I'm visiting Morocco and my parents want me to be able to at least hold a short conversation with them in arabic by the time I get back to the USA and as of right now the only phrase I've been using most of the time is "Manaraf Arabia" (i don't know arabic)

smile Glad you joined!

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Kimyanji

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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:15 pm

Pomnuria Garjzla

Kimyanji

واين العربي؟
ودي ان يرجع الناس هنا

The funny thing is, this statement would sound different in Sudanese vs. Modern Standard...

could you translate that statement and what does your sig say?

It would be my pleasure!!! biggrin

Here it is a little bigger so it could be easier to read...

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Dimna said to Kalilah: "It is said that a human, enslaved and a fugitive from his Roman captors, was in one of the forests of the West (also translates to Morocco). Suddenly, he faces a lion; snarling, firosious, his fangs baring. From the intensity of his fear, he almost didn't notice that a thorn was stuck between its fangs (here, this is a typo. I wanted to say 'claws'... oh well sweatdrop ). He felt compassion towards it then plucked it out after recollecting his bravery..."

You know where this story's headed, eh? This is a relatively famous story I knew of for years.

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:01 pm

Bloodless Amber

Pomnuria Garjzla

Assalamu alaikum peeps! If anyone can help me to learn more arabic without confusing me that would be very much appreciated. Right now I'm visiting Morocco and my parents want me to be able to at least hold a short conversation with them in arabic by the time I get back to the USA and as of right now the only phrase I've been using most of the time is "Manaraf Arabia" (i don't know arabic)

smile Glad you joined!

As am I

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neafaroo

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Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:08 pm

I couldn't get this site or livejournal to come up at all in Morocco... I just got back from 6 weeks there... It was amazing... I learned a lot of fusha and some of the Moroccan colloquial... I'm leaving tomorrow to head for VA but learning arabic was amazing.

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:12 pm

OMG YAAAAAAY!! This thread is alive again! crying <----tears of joy biggrin

Arundhati

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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:52 pm

Arundhati

OMG YAAAAAAY!! This thread is alive again! crying <----tears of joy biggrin

Meh, it isn't really, no discussions... sad
No one has any questions. I guess it's a good thing for them, and a bad thing for the thread. confused

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:21 pm

Is anyone else learning arabic right now? I'm going into my second year along with more japanese... it should be an interesting semester... 18 credit hours. ahh

neafaroo

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:55 am

Wow.
I've just heard the Egyptian dialect was affected by Ancient Egyptian.
That's just too cool. I want to study the Egyptian dialect. 0.0
Can anyone speak it and give some examples? smile

Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:56 am

neafaroo

Is anyone else learning arabic right now? I'm going into my second year along with more japanese... it should be an interesting semester... 18 credit hours. ahh

I've been learning Arabic since I was 12. I've just graduated but I'm about to start studying it again. It's very interesting. A bit difficult maybe, but it worths it.

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Arundhati

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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:47 pm

I'm currently learning Arabic right now. Specifically the Iraqi dialect.

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:00 pm

F. Fritzi

Wow.
I've just heard the Egyptian dialect was affected by Ancient Egyptian.
That's just too cool. I want to study the Egyptian dialect. 0.0
Can anyone speak it and give some examples? smile

Actually, I think that Egyptian Arabic is influenced by both Greek and Coptic (which is a decendent of Ancient Egyptian)...

Linguistically, it is VERY similar to later Classical Arabic vocabulary-wise, but the pronounciation is different for a lot of letters. For example:

Classical Q = Egyptian A (glotal stop)
Classical J = Egyptian g
Classical Th (as in "thing") = Egyptian S
Classical Dh (as in "the" = Egyptian Z

(Qalb = Alb = Heart)
(Jameel = Gameel = Beautiful or Handsom)

Egyptian is the most famous because Egypt was in the forfront when it comes to TV/Radio media amongst Arab countries.

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