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Mon 15 Aug, 2005 10:43 am
what is your opinion about the arabic language,do u think it easy,tough or interesting,tell us frankly
I don't think anything about the Arabic language. Should I start thinking about it?
I love Arabic because it is the language of the Holy Quoran and because it is my mother tongue. thanks
Well, its difficulty probably depends on what your native language is. I find that, for me (native English speaker) it is difficult to pronounce some of the sounds just because I never have. It requires some parts of your voice and throat that you don't normally use. Also, it can be difficult to learn to read and write it simply because the letters are different. The same would probably be true for Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and others.
But, I like it anyway and would like to learn to speak it better.
Well, if english was good enough for jesus than it should be good enough for the arabs.
Well, I'd like a few Arabic phrases for when I go to Syria...
Useful phrases, Clary --
Sabah el-khair good morning
mesa el-khair good afternoon/evening
ma el-salama goodbye
min fadhlek please
shukren thank you
esefen excuse me
and the most important one: titekellem inglazy, do you speak English?
u know Merry Andrew u r right but not all right ..
u have used vowels as in turkish language..
esefen= excuse me people will pronouce it in a different way..u should write "asifen"
thanks
Thanx for the correction, safinaz.
dyslexia wrote:Well, if english was good enough for jesus than it should be good enough for the arabs.
Hei, you will not believe this: Jesus never spoke English
Well, dys would... nobody got his post. He is fairly sly...
And I am interested in this thread, am interested if entirely ignorant in arabic, but have low tolerance for internet speak.
Arabic interests me - to the extent that it does intellectually, for reasons of history I'd like to know, perhaps deep history - but I am unlikely to understand all past history myself.
Me... as myself, I am interested in the surface of arabic, the graphic movement of the typed or written letters. Not for their symbolism, per se, except as it might be useful to understand how the language flows.
I can only imagine how my particular interest could annoy people.
Merry Andrew wrote:Useful phrases, Clary --
Sabah el-khair good morning
mesa el-khair good afternoon/evening
ma el-salama goodbye
min fadhlek please
shukren thank you
esefen excuse me
and the most important one: titekellem inglazy, do you speak English?
Thank you, Andrei. I will note them. Alas, foreign travellers don't always meet the people they would be interested to talk to. How about 'No, I don't want to buy a ****** carpet!"?
Clary -- 'No' is '
la'. I'm not sure what the word for carpet is. Safinaz can probably help you. A useful word is '
yallah!, which basiclly means 'go away.'
well clary..'no, I don't want to buy a carpet'.
the sentense in Arabic is:
"la, la uridu an ashtariya zarbiyyah".
of course it is the Classical Arabic. I mean the Formal.
u know Marry Andrew.. we use 'yallah' to mean let's go. and it is not formal.
'go away' is 'imshi !'
Yeah, I forgot about 'imshi' or just 'imsh' as it's sometimes pronounced. I always thought 'yallah' and 'imshi' were kind of synonimous. I'm learning much from you.
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