I am learning Levantine Arabic. I know there are accent differences within the Levant. And I expect that just like English, there are probably quite a few words that are more commonly used in some places. I have read that even within countries, things can vary between towns. To me, that makes Arabic incredibly beautiful.
I want to discuss whether it's good for beginner learners like me to know from the start which words are more common in which countries. For example, that way I know to choose a specific word to speak to a Syrian person, but perhaps a different one to speak to a Lebanese. Likewise, I could kind of prime my brain to expect words that are common in the speaker's country.
However, perhaps that's too confusing, and beginners should just stick to common words. Eventually, I suppose, if I speak Arabic a lot to many different people, I'll just pick up on the quirks of each accent.
What do you think?
Because I'm asking generally about any language, I'll put this in the English section. Hope nobody minds.
To my dismay, sometimes when I speak Hebrew, I find I have a stutter. I was doing a language exchange today. There was one point where I knew which word I wanted to say, but I paused, unable to get the sound out of my mouth. Other times I stutter. It's very frustrating.
My hypothesis is that because I haven't spoken these words enough before, the muscles in my mouth haven't formed the right patterns to be able to keep up with my thinking.
Does anyone else have, or has anyone else had this problem?
If you've managed to overcome it, how? Did you specifically do any speaking exercises to help or did you just kind of outgrow it?
