#langblr arabic

[tlajtollirambles]

Hello people from the internet, do you have any singer recommendations from the Levant (Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan & Turkey)? Preferably those who sing mostly in arabic and preferably women.

I only know about Shadia Mansour

[eelingo]

Monday, Arabic, 13/02/23

ذ makes a 'z' sound

ذّ makes a 'za' sound

ا makes an 'aa' sound

د makes a 'd' sound

ي makes an 'ii' sound

و makes an 'uu' sound

وّ makes a 'weh' sound

يّ makes an 'ay' or 'ya' sound

ذ makes a 'ra' sound

رّ makes a 'da' sound

I have a feeling that one or two might be wrong, but im completely new to typing with an arabic keyboard and i don't know how to differentiate some letters just yet 😅 (like ى and ي or د and ذ and ز I'm fairly sure i have those mixed up)

Also notes to self, its right to left, not left to right (makes it hard to type in both arabic and english on the same line, but we adapt 💪), and to get the accent parts that aren't on the keyboard itself, the button by the space bar has all of them (like ّ and ٍ and such, to get يّ from ي)

[valla-chan]

Crazy how every language fully understood cats when they named them. Cat, Gato, Neko, Chat, Katze, Qitta, Mao... Like yeah all of you are just 100% correct

[learnarabicin25years]

I looked up the Arabic for this to see which word was used for audacity -- it's وقاحة:

يسرقون رغيفك .. ثم يعطونك منه كِسرة .. ثم يأمرونك أن تشكرهم على كرمهم .. يا لوقاحتهم

[candela888]

How to say "Apricot" in some of the languages of the Americas & Europe, and the word's etymological origin

[langvillage]

hello language learners! new this month in the language village, a chill way to practice a little bit every day: the one sentence club! as the title suggests, the idea is to write one sentence in your target language(s) every day. for an extra challenge, especially if your target language uses a different script, try handwriting the sentence too!

join the language village discord server to receive daily reminder pings, get inspiration from a daily question prompt, and participate alongside other one sentence club members!

feel free to tag #langvillage if you post your sentences on tumblr ✨

[moldwood]

[princesssascha]

I wanna learn Arabic so bad 🥹🥹 does anyone have good resources?

[h0neytalk]

Favorite VERY BASIC Comprehensible Input Sources I’ve Found (all free)

These are all for Italian and Arabic (MSA + Levantine dialect) and suitable for A1! I’ve found the very early stages are the hardest to find stuff for but also when it’s the most boring to be confined to flashcards and memorizing so hopefully this helps. Also it keeps me from losing these links.

Italian:

Curioso come George (Italian Curious George, honestly a lot of kids shows can get tiring but Curious George doesn’t hit that “annoying” pitch while still being simple) (link is to one episode but you can find tons in the related vids) (also segments are themed so you can find ones that roughly correlate to a unit of vocab like weather or clothes)

Ardea Digitale Schoolbooks (schoolbooks for children that you can download as PDFs along with workbooks/worksheets)

Arabic (MSA)

Read Learn Play Arabic (cannot speak highly enough of this one it’s so good and there’s so much and idk how it isn’t talked about more)

Cartoon Network MENA (good just because the material is recognizable, obviously usefulness of vocab/level is gonna vary by show)

Arabic (Levantine Dialect)

Sesame Street! Aka Ahlan Simsim. (Some segments are more advanced than others obviously but it’s incredible for learning the sound of the dialect and is also not grating for adults imo) (free on YouTube)

Lingualism Diaries (not nearly as beginner friendly as Read Learn Play but definitely doable within a few weeks assuming you know the alphabet) (also has audio versions)

I highly recommend lingualism.com for a ton of Arabic materials in all sorts of dialects/levels but they’re mostly paid (not expensive! But not free) and this post is meant to compile free stuff.

[egheitisafi]

Hi! My name is Judit, but I usually go by Safi or Anemone online. I’m 29 y.o. and I was diagnosed with audhd last year.

One of my special interests has always been learning foreign languages, so this is the main reason I made this side-blog. My native languages are Catalan and Spanish, and I can speak English and French fluently and Japanese (intermediate).

I’m currently studying Arabic (2nd year), Icelandic (2nd year) and Japanese at different language schools.

I studied a Translation and Interpretation degree at uni and passed JLPT N3 7 years ago, so during this past year I’ve been trying to refresh kanji and grammar to be able to prepare for N2 at some point.

Here’s what you will find in this side-blog:

Me trying to journal in Icelandic during this summer

Vocabulary and grammar notes (Icelandic, Arabic, Japanese)

My language learning journey

Stuff to motivate myself to keep learning and studying

I’d love to connect with other people who are learning the same languages or just fellow language learning lovers! I’d also be up to help anyone who’s learning Catalan or Spanish and needs a native friend.

Besides languages I also like:

cosplay

videogames (honkai star rail, genshin impact, project sekai, sims 2…)

reading

penguins

perfumes

manga

makeup

fashion

monster high

vocaloid

[study-diaries]

15th April 2024

I've been ignoring my language course for the past 7+ months and my final exam for it is coming closer day by day T-T

Overall a productive day...

Today I :

Completed 5 lessons with grammar in Arabic

Attended my Arabic class

Finished my homework

Read 100+ pages (still counting)

Completed a novel

Total study time: 1 hour 30 mins

[tlajtollirambles]

studyblr/langblr introduction

Hi! This is mostly an experiment to see if keeping this blog helps me with my studies more than anything.

I am learning:

French (at school)

Nahuatlahtolli: classic / central puebla (at cultural center)

Arabic: msa / levantine

Hindi

Thai

I know:

English (level C1 i think?)

Spanish (Mother language)

French (B1, supposedly)

Nahuatl Central Puebla (A1)

I want to learn languages too: a) get my hands into more knowdlege and resources about life, the universe, and everything. b) Make friends and relationships and stuff. c) Translate! I recently started doing more translations and is a beautifull art, want to do more.

[eelingo]

I'm Eli, also Eel or El, and im currently learning seven languages because its part of my special interest in flags and maps :)

In order of how well it's going, I'm learning French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Arabic. I'm gonna use this blog to log my progress and use duolingo's advice on writing down what I remember after each lesson 🤓

Each day correlates to a different language, so each post will start with the day of the week, the language, and the date, (so eg Monday, arabic, 13/02/23) and then just what i remember from each lesson and any thoughts i have on it!

Its gonna be super fun for me at least, and anyone is welcome to follow even if you're just nosy about how duo teaches a language or, even better, if you want to add your own input on anything i might have wrong because I'm going into these with no input other than the green bird and maybe netflix subtitles/dubbing

[officialcelebrity]

"Palabras que vienen del árabe 🫠"

by Daniel Vargas Dutrenit (danielvargasdut on TikTok)

[mooncoreblr]

LANGBLR INTRO!!!

A little about me:

Call me Azara c:

Middle Eastern - Persian origins (not ir*nian please ;-;)

26 - isfp - sagittarius

lesbian - she/her

Got my BA in English Language and Literature with a minor in French

Preparing for an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and self-studying and researching theoretical+applied+interdisciplinary linguistics

Languages I speak:

Arabic (native - standard and a dialect of the gulf)

Farsi (native but I don't speak the standard)

English C1

French (standard) B1/B2

Korean B1/B2

Languages Goals - short and long term:

IELTS BAND 9 

Arabic (build my vocabulary for translation)

Advancing in Korean C1

Advancing in French C1

Learning Standard Farsi

Consistently learn Japanese for 60 days

Consistently learn Chinese for 60 days

Could post about other languages that interest me at one point!

How I learn languages

tv shows mostly as I rely a lot on pronunciation and sentence structures in speech

music - I mostly listen to English, Persian, Korean, Japanese and French songs but I am open to anything as long as it's good

used to take classes before covid and then I enrolled in online classes and hated them - they were bland.

textbooks that I spent a fortune on ;-;

Let's be friends !! ♡

[spanishskulduggery]

Is there a difference between espero que si/no and ojala que si/no? I understand both to mean approximately "I hope so/not!"

Not really, kind of?

ojalá by itself is more literally "God willing", it's a Spanish derivation of the Arabic lawshallah or inshallah but it's "if God wills it" essentially; my understanding is that the original Arabic uses something like the imperfect subjunctive "were God to will it"

ojalá comes from Arabic by way of the Arabic/Moorish influences on Spain, and esperar is more directly from Latin

...

In translation it's kind of the same, espero que sí/no is "I hope so" and "I hope not", ojalá is maybe stronger "I hope to God (that it does/does not)"

I will say that in conversation, when people say espero they mean "I hope" at the end of a sentence. And if they end it with ojalá it comes out more like inshallah "God willing" [in Spanish that's more si Dios quiere "if God wills", or si Dios quiera/quisiera but same idea]

In other words:

No va a llover... espero. = It's not going to rain... I hope. No va a llover... ojalá. = It's not going to rain... God willing.

So I always associate ojalá with being stronger and usually in textbooks they say it's like "I hope to God"