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Barmymoo:
I am looking forward to starting my Arabic classes :) I have found a free website with some very basic vocabulary just to get a feel for the language.
94ssd:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 20 Apr 2014, 10:15 ---I am looking forward to starting my Arabic classes :) I have found a free website with some very basic vocabulary just to get a feel for the language.
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I wonder if you're classes will use Al-Kitaab. That seems to be the standard most places. Then you'll get to learn all about Maha and how she's waHida (lonely).
EDIT: I just thought of an interesting Arabic fact I learned recently that shows what a cool language it is. So, all Arabic works have a root-and-stem pattern. Once you learn how to recognize these three-letter roots, it becomes a lot easier to ascertain the meaning of new words. كتب is both the root meaning "writing" and the unconjugated form of the verb "to write." كتاب (Kitaab) means "book." مكتب (Maktab) means "place of writing," aka an office.
Lonewords like كمبيوتر (Computer) usually don't follow this root and stem pattern, with a few exceptions, most notably بنك (bank), which has also become the root meaning "banking." So now بنوك (banook) means to invest your money.
Method of Madness:
I took Beginning Arabic my freshman year of college and dropped it a few weeks in because we were still learning how to write the alphabet. I was 19 and impatient, but damn it, I wanted to learn how to read and translate. I would never have need to write anything, really, computers exist. I kind of regret not sticking with it (I switched to Ancient Greek, which led to me being a Classics major), but...yeah.
94ssd:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 20 Apr 2014, 10:33 ---I took Beginning Arabic my freshman year of college and dropped it a few weeks in because we were still learning how to write the alphabet. I was 19 and impatient, but damn it, I wanted to learn how to read and translate. I would never have need to write anything, really, computers exist. I kind of regret not sticking with it (I switched to Ancient Greek, which led to me being a Classics major), but...yeah.
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Learning Arabic is a really slow process at first. We didn't finish learning the alphabet until about halfway through first semester, although we were learning vocab and grammatical stuff at the same time.
We only got into how to make words plural (which is a real fucking pain in the ass because all root patterns have their own plural rules, but there's also rules about human vs. non-human plurals) in the first few weeks of my second semester learning it. We don't know any verb tenses yet (he did briefly mention past tense but it hasn't been covered in the book), I'm pretty sure by this point in my learning of Spanish we had to know 5 different tenses.
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 20 Apr 2014, 10:15 ---I am looking forward to starting my Arabic classes :) I have found a free website with some very basic vocabulary just to get a feel for the language.
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Why are you learning Arabic May?
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