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I started studying Arabic almost a year ago and I want to improve my speaking and pronunciation. I would be interested to help you with English in exchange. You can add me on skype: danixion
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Muhammad
Arabic (Levantine)
Dec 14, 2017
Dani read a dialogue that focused on the present continuous in Syrian Levantine, and before that we had a chat in which he expressed himself well and got some corrections that were pretty easy for him to perceive. See you tomorrow for the marathon Dani.
Muhammad
Arabic (Levantine)
Dec 13, 2017
Though tiredness, Dani was able to express himself pretty good. Some corrections make his speech sound excellent. See you tomorrow Dani.
Muhammad
Arabic (Levantine)
Dec 12, 2017
It was a light lesson, yet a variant one as we had a worthy chat, I answered some good questions he had and we addressed a dialogue that focused on a grammatical point.
Muhammad
Arabic (Levantine)
Dec 11, 2017
We continued yesterday's lesson with new vocabularies and expressions that he learned over the past sessions.
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  • Answered
    I understand your pain. LOL, the funny thing is that Arabs will always tell you it's easy but they don't realize how complicated it is for a beginner! It took me some time to get a hang of Arabic plural forms. They can be very unpredictable. Basically, we have Female plural, Male plural, and Irregular plural. The simplest one is plural for feminine, as you almost always just change the end of the word to "-aat". But not all feminine words take that form though. There are many words that follow the same pattern when it comes to plurals. For instance: madinah (a city) is "mudun" in plural kitaab (a book) is "kutub" GHurfah (a room) is "GHuruf" Male and irregular plurals are really tricky. The best thing to do is just use them again and again until you memorize them clearly. Once you get a hang of it yourself, you will soon discover that there are more difficult grammar rules in Arabic that tends to complicate things with plurals - such as when we have case endings on the words (الإعراب). Good luck!
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    August 8, 2010
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  • Answered
    I don't understand why you want to read Arabic books when you don't even know how to read words yet. That is just pointless. As for learning how to read without the short vowels, it takes time and a lot of work. It's something that comes out naturally to you as you learn more Arabic words and figure out that they always have patterns (one of the best things about it!) to follow. Good luck!
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    August 8, 2010
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  • Answered
    بالعربية What are you doing? = ماذا تفعل (الآن)؟ What do you do? = ما وظيفتك؟ أو ماذا تعمل في عملك؟
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    July 23, 2010
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  • Corrected

    First notebook entry: Introducing myself

    Ana Ismee Ibrahim. Ana min Pakistan. Ana Talib min Jamia Amreekia min Sharjah.

    Biddi atalam Al Arbi.

    This is how it will sound like in fuS-Ha:

    Ismy Ibrahim. Ana min Pakistan. Ana Taalib fi jama'at Amreekiyah fi ash-Sharjah.

    oreed an ata'alam bel-loGHa ala'arabiyah.

    The "bidee" part is colloquial. Ya Ibrahim, I think there are Arabic courses at AUS that you can sign up for. There are also lots of Arabs around you who can help you a lot. I'm not sure how good the courses are though. I lived in Dubai for almost 5 years and didn't learn Arabic properly in highschool. I spent 2 semesters of Arabic in Texas and I learned more Arabic than my entire experience in UAE. Sad but true!
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    July 18, 2010
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  • Answered
    Hala ya Ahmad, I think conditionals (الشرط) in English is way easier than conditionals in Arabic. I'm not sure how much you'll understand it through a simple explanation though. In Arabic we have إذا followed by a past tense verb for the conditional then a ف to introduce the result. Or لو then past tense verb then ل and past tense verb again. In English the إذا or لو is "if" and ف or ل is "then", the only main difference is that you can put any tense for the verb and "then" can be dropped. It's like عامية. Example: "If I want to eat then I will cook..." إذا أردت أن آكل فسأطبخ أو... لو أردت أن آكل لطبخت I hope this helps.
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    July 18, 2010
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  • Corrected

    ليش أدرس العربية

    أهلا وسهلا

    أنا طالب في جامعة تكساس وبدأت آدرس اللغة العربية منذ ٨ شهور وفي الحقيقة لغتي الأم هي الفليبينية وبالإضافة إلى ذلك طبعا يمكنني أن أتكلم بالإنكليزية. أريد أن أدرس لهجات عربية والثقافة العربية

    إذا أردت مساعدتي للغة الإنكليزية أو الفليبينية فمن اللممكن أن تسألني أشياء عنهما
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    July 18, 2010
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  • Commented
     Practice gargling and grunting. LOL
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    July 18, 2010
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  • Commented
    You must study the formal Arabic (fuS-Ha) and colloquial Arabic. Colloquial Arabic is a must because it's the real Arabic that Arabs use in their day to day lives. I recommend Levantine Arabic or Egyptian Arabic to supplement the formal study. Good luck! =)
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    July 18, 2010
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  • Posted
    ليش أنا أدرس العربية أهلا وسهلا أنا طالب في جامعة تكساس وبدأت آدرس اللغة العربية منذ ٨ شهور وفي الحقيقة لغتي الأم هي الفليبينية وبالإضافة إلى ذلك طبعا يمكنني أن أتكلم بالإنكليزية. أريد أن أدرس لهجات العربية والثقافة العربية إذا تريد مساعدتي للغة الإنكليزية أو الفليبينية فمن اللممكن أن تسألني أشياء عنهما
    July 18, 2010
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