Arabe/Dardja language area

[Henia 11]

How does eevryone feel about establishing a Arabe and/or Dardja group for learning language... I mean a recipe area was established...what about a language area...to be pinned in the forum or on a seperate site?

How does everyone feel about this?Possible? Worth it? Anyone interested?

[Henia 11]

I guess nobody cares.

[Ban Hammer 13,481]

[MHandMB 0]

I would love to learn some arabic. I pick up bits and pieces from my husband, but I don';t think he really has enough patience to sit down and teach me.

What did you have in mind?

[deemabrouk 0]

me too... I'm down.. Everyone here cant be bothered.. and my Arab speaking friends are all still trying to perfect their English.. so my Arabic lessons are short/ brief

[mybackpages 0]

I guess nobody cares.

We love you Henia. How do you say "What are your red flags in Darija?"...seems to have taken everyone's attention

I am going to get serious about my Darija this week-end. Idir laughs at me so much when i try to say something. we were practicing letter pronumciation yesterday. He said three different letter sounds an dI said they all sound the same to me.

[~Jess~ 0]

id be willin to learn and to post some stuff ive picked up in the past year.......my knowledge is getting better but man i cant pronounce worth a #######! lol i can count well tho

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Just curious. How do you learn pronounciation on a website group?

[~Jess~ 0]

if you were refering you me im not expecting to learn how to pronounce online haha.......i am just game for throwing around words. i live among native arabic speakers....im sure ill learn how to pronounce more and more every day. thanks

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Thanks, but I just meant in general, how is learning online without sound effective?

[peezey 0]

I know some yahoo language groups actually have mp3's of the sounds/pronounciations that the leader prepared.

Edited April 4, 2007 by peezey

[mybackpages 0]

Just curious. How do you learn pronounciation on a website group?

Never mind Peezy beat me too it!

Edited April 4, 2007 by mybackpages

[Henia 11]

Esalaaams... not really sure how to do this...but maybe get the thread pinned or create some forum...I donnow?!

GEG:I agree...even with translateration I am even more confused... I have to hear it to remember it or write it down in my own translieration...Maybe start with basics...names of things, basic actions or commands...useful phrases....ok i cannot even type for sure i am tired. off to bed!Demain everyone!

Edited April 4, 2007 by Henia

[thkcmp 0]

Well, I'm sure from the post I made a few days ago that pretty much everyone here knows who I am and that I would be interested in a group for learning language. My biggest problem has been, as I said before, the correct dialect. I have the "Magnum Language Systems Easy Immersion Arabic" software. I like the way it is set up. I'm not really interested right now in learning how to hand write arabic, just be able to speak it, understand it and get the dialect correct. A lot of what is on this software is correct, but when I've told Tarek some of what is on it and he just wrinkles his brow and says "no".

What I really like about this software is that it has words and phrases spelled out in english alphabet and then prounounces them in audio. I keep a form on my desk when I'm learning. I write down the english word then the spelling in enlish alphabet and then I write the way it would be spelled in english according to the way it sounds.

I've learn a lot from just this software as well as some other tools, but like I said.....not always the correct dialect.

I think that there may be a way to help each other in a language group.....what one doesn't know someone else may.

Good suggestion.

[peezey 0]

Resources for darija (Moroccan Arabic) which is not at all the same as MSA (modern standard Arabic)

Moroccan Arabic with mp3 files

Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic

Grammar of Moroccan Arabic

Yahoo group for darija

Learn Moroccan Arabic

This one requires owning the first book listed:

Daarija

Edited April 5, 2007 by peezey