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Yes, Christians use it all the time. I generalized to keep things from being complicated and generalized against saying it to Christians particularly because these lessons aimed at teaching Egyptian Arabic.

I got lazy and stopped because it didn't seem like any beginning-level folks were interested. I have class/parties/etc starting now, so if I continue the lessons will be much shorter, and fus7a and Egyptian will probably be separate lessons.

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Thanks, I'll be correcting and clarifying these

Some of them were pretty dumb mistakes on my part, so I appreciate that you keep an eye on them.

And also, it would be great to see some more emphasis on 3amiyya forms; I'm personally more interested in khaliiji due to possible career prospects, but I'd love to know more about misriyya as well. Maybe you should consider making a different thread for that, since fus7a is effectively a different...

<b>Lesson 3</b> I'm no longer going to include pronunciation, excepting cases where I feel pronunciation must be noted. If you feel you <i>need</i> the pronunciation back, let me know and I'll edit this post and include it in future lessons. I do plan to edit pronunciation into the lessons eventuall...

I've never actually found a good resource for studying Icelandic. They're all crappy for one reason or another. I would suggest, however, the Hippocrene dictionary and Teach Yourself Icelandic (the one by PJ Glendenning). The latter has been highly criticized, but I've actually found that if you go ...

I just want to take a minute to note that I think posting a lesson every other day will be the norm. For now, I don't expect to finish the next lesson until Monday or Tuesday, since this weekend, among other things, is a major feast day in my religion and I live near a pilgrimage site for this feast...

<b>Lesson 2</b> Keep note, and as we have seen in the previous lesson, that as we become more familiar with words, I will gradually treat Romanization more as native speakers would. At first, I will simply drop my notation for long vowels. When I feel appropriate for a certain word, I will drop the ...

Lesson 2 goes only slightly deeper. The focus of these lessons is really to allow you to soak up the language as easy as possible. With Arabic, whose grammar is actually easy and natural in my opinion, you need to work on vocabulary building rather than on providing a grammar. Also, verbs work diffe...

What's so exclusively Arabic about a car? It comes from 3araba , a cart or wagon. It's actually a loan from Turkish araba , which refers to carts/carriages used in Turkey. It's only coincidental that it shares the same root as the word for "Arab." It's actually from Arabic. I've also heard it's fro...

-ak and -ik are actually acceptable fus7a and can replace the remainders of اعراب such as the -u- in ismuk

Nice work, Zeikan. These lessons are better than you'd see in a lot of Arabic textbooks. Thanks. Also, معك: Fus7a: [mæ.ʕæ.kæ] / [mæ.ʕæ.ki] Egyptian: [mæ.ʕæk] / [mæ.ʕik] Not quite. You're right that [mæ.ʕæ.kæ] / [mæ.ʕæ.ki] are proper Fus7a, but [mæ.ʕæk] / [mæ.ʕik] are also acceptable. The former are...

Lesson 1 -- Introduction Since this lesson is memorization heavy, it will be relatively brief. Future lessons will contain exercises. Vocabulary from this lesson will be used in the next lesson as well. In this brief lesson, we will learn about: 1) Basic greetings - مفردات (Vocabulary section) 2) P...

<b>Pronunciation</b> I have long noticed a lack of good (or even decent) pronunciation guides for Arabic, so let me provide a guide while we wait to see if these lessons will actually happen. <b>Script</b> The Arabic script is very famous for its beauty, and has transformed over time for both beauty...

Hello. I've been thinking about providing Arabic lessons here, but I'm not sure how much interest it will garner. Let me know -- I don't want to start them if nobody's going to use them. They will focus on Fus7a (Modern Standard Arabic) and Egyptian Arabic -- both needed for proficiency. Because I f...

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<iamohsotrendy> i wanna get kidknapped.
<Oswy> ...
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To me, suspirar in Spanish doesn't have a particular English counterpart. The closest word that comes to it is 'sigh', but that word has a different connotation from suspirar. My Spanish teacher (native speaker) and I both agree that suspirar must have began meaning 'to sigh', but that today its mea...

IE *-p- > *-k- > *-k- (Q-Celtic) What is is this supposed to mean? There is no such development. Sorry, I shouldn't have used the -'s, they're confusing due to their uselessness. The difference between Q- and P-Celtic is based on the word five. In Proto-Q-Celtic, it's *coic, hence the q. In Proto-P...

P in Celtic languages IE *p- > 0 (but in P-Celtic, the *p- sometimes returned) IE *-p- > *-k- > *-k- (Q-Celtic), *-k_w- > p (P-Celtic) IE *-k_w- > p (P-Celtic) The difference between Q- and P-Celtic is based on the word five. In Old Irish, it's *coic, hence the q. In Proto-P-Celtic, it's *pimp, henc...

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Hey! Bulgarian is one of the languages on the top of my desire-to-learn list (it's #3 under Icelandic and Palestinian Arabic) -- is there anyone who can teach me Bulgarian? (You know, I'd buy books but I only have $230... and I need $300 to take Driver's Ed in June... not to mention I'm also saving ...