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eskandar wrote:I took some time off from Unilang because it was too distracting from work, but I think I'll come back for a bit if I can limit myself to checking the language forums and maybe a bit of TAC.
eskandar wrote:I know the most efficient thing would be to just slowly power through it, since there are SO MANY words I have to look up, so I'm hoping this blog will keep me motivated to regularly post at least a few words from it.
eskandar wrote:I'll also try to learn a handful of Albanian and Icelandic phrases due to travel this summer.
I need to read a treatise of about 90 pages in convoluted Classical Arabic, and I'm totally intimidated. I feel so good about my Arabic when I can have a casual chat with friends, or skim a newspaper without too much trouble, but this text makes me feel like a total beginner, with more unfamiliar words on the page than familiar ones. I know the most efficient thing would be to just slowly power through it, since there are SO MANY words I have to look up, so I'm hoping this blog will keep me motivated to regularly post at least a few words from it.
eskandar wrote:The cool thing about learning another Semitic language is that even though Hebrew isn't quite Islamicate in the sense that Persian or, say, Indonesian are--though it does nevertheless have a good layer of Arabic loanwords and even some from Turkish and Persian--I still get to deepen my Arabic knowledge through it.
eskandar wrote:I also found a very interesting blog post
Vijay, Voron, Saim -- and any other Levantine Arabic learners -- anyone interested in collectively working our way through the Syrian comedy film Vijay introduced us to, الحدود? It could be fun to do just a minute (or even less) at a time, and I bet we could do pretty well with it if we put in a group effort. Just a thought!
eskandar wrote:Vijay, Voron, Saim -- and any other Levantine Arabic learners -- anyone interested in collectively working our way through the Syrian comedy film Vijay introduced us to, الحدود? It could be fun to do just a minute (or even less) at a time, and I bet we could do pretty well with it if we put in a group effort. Just a thought!
dEhiN wrote:*raises hands* Pick me, pick me...I want to be part of the group too!
vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:*raises hands* Pick me, pick me...I want to be part of the group too!
You speak Levantine Arabic?
dEhiN wrote:I just want to be part of the in-crowd!
voron wrote:May I suggest something though? I will be on vacation with no computer until May 10 so you guys can start without me... and then I really want to do MSA (because we'll be in Ramadan), so can we perhaps transcribe something in MSA?
I suggest the series Omar:
https://vimeo.com/183801467
It has English subtitles so it should be easy to transcribe. Is it perhaps too easy for you, Eskandar?
vijayjohn wrote:EDIT: Can we do more than a minute at a time if we feel like it?
eskandar wrote:The one Hebrew word I could find sharing the N-D-L root was nadal (centipede), which is probably unrelated to the Arabic root. Not sure what its etymology is.
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