For some reason, this is really funny to me.
3rd August 2012
Notes: 3
Who wants to buy me this? I will love you forever and ever.
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I just spent a ridiculous amount of time checking out all those links. Very cool. If you see this, fearandwar, you might find it useful!
Reblogged From political-linguaphile-deactivat
This is an ongoing project of mine to have a page that links to resources for learning Arabic. It’s short now, so send me any sites/books/etc you find and I’ll add them.
This is a website that collects free educational material on the web. There are lots of good lectures, but of relevance for Arabic is the language section. It links to some iTunes courses.
FSI was a government program to train diplomats to speak languages they needed for their jobs. So, since the government created all of these programs, they’re not under any copyright. There are several courses for learning Arabic on this site. They’re good but dated and focused on what a diplomat would need. Lots of audio, which is always good.
An amazing resource for pretty much any language. People upload pdfs, audio, etc of popular courses and books for pretty much any language. All of the al-Kitaab series is on here with the DVDs. There’s so many Arabic courses I couldn’t even begin to link to them all. This is good if you see something like Pimsleur and realize you can’t afford it.
A forum dedicated to learning languages. Lots of advice on programs, books, grammar, etc. Arabic is becoming quite popular on there, so if you have any questions, look here.
Of course reddit has to show up. They’ve compiled a list of language learning resources for a lot of languages. Arabic only has one site, but there are some good links to other general language stuff, such as flashcard programs.
This site lists a lot of public domain books on Arabic (and other languages). I haven’t explored it too much yet, but it looks pretty good.
This site has tons of vocabulary lists and grammar explanations. Unfortunately, it looks like the owner didn’t pay his registration. I’ve saved all of the pages from google cache and can upload them to rapidshare or something if asked.
This is a youtuber who has uploaded a lot of videos on learning Arabic and also learning languages in general. He has some really cool theories and his video on Arabic resources is really good.
This site translates two Arabic newspaper articles every week. It’s not free, but each word is translated and you can read the Arabic version side-by-side with the English version and click on an Arabic word to see what it is in English. They also have audio of all of the articles. It’s pretty good and only like 8 dollars a month.
This is a book written to take you from beginner Arabic to advanced Arabic. It covers a lot of stuff that is glossed over in most Arabic textbooks. Most languages have books like this, but this seems to be the only for Arabic and it’s out of print, unfortunately. So here’s a download link.
This is all that comes to me now. If you have any more ideas, send them to me and I’ll add them. I’ll probably be updating this over the next few weeks.
Reblogging because I posted this at 1 AM. Again, let me know if you have any other resources, corrections, questions, etc.
This is an ongoing project of mine to have a page that links to resources for learning Arabic. It’s short now, so send me any sites/books/etc you find and I’ll add them.
This is a website that collects free educational material on the web. There are lots of good lectures, but of relevance for Arabic is the language section. It links to some iTunes courses.
FSI was a government program to train diplomats to speak languages they needed for their jobs. So, since the government created all of these programs, they’re not under any copyright. There are several courses for learning Arabic on this site. They’re good but dated and focused on what a diplomat would need. Lots of audio, which is always good.
An amazing resource for pretty much any language. People upload pdfs, audio, etc of popular courses and books for pretty much any language. All of the al-Kitaab series is on here with the DVDs. There’s so many Arabic courses I couldn’t even begin to link to them all. This is good if you see something like Pimsleur and realize you can’t afford it.
A forum dedicated to learning languages. Lots of advice on programs, books, grammar, etc. Arabic is becoming quite popular on there, so if you have any questions, look here.
Of course reddit has to show up. They’ve compiled a list of language learning resources for a lot of languages. Arabic only has one site, but there are some good links to other general language stuff, such as flashcard programs.
This site lists a lot of public domain books on Arabic (and other languages). I haven’t explored it too much yet, but it looks pretty good.
This site has tons of vocabulary lists and grammar explanations. Unfortunately, it looks like the owner didn’t pay his registration. I’ve saved all of the pages from google cache and can upload them to rapidshare or something if asked.
This is a youtuber who has uploaded a lot of videos on learning Arabic and also learning languages in general. He has some really cool theories and his video on Arabic resources is really good.
This site translates two Arabic newspaper articles every week. It’s not free, but each word is translated and you can read the Arabic version side-by-side with the English version and click on an Arabic word to see what it is in English. They also have audio of all of the articles. It’s pretty good and only like 8 dollars a month.
This is a book written to take you from beginner Arabic to advanced Arabic. It covers a lot of stuff that is glossed over in most Arabic textbooks. Most languages have books like this, but this seems to be the only for Arabic and it’s out of print, unfortunately. So here’s a download link.
This is all that comes to me now. If you have any more ideas, send them to me and I’ll add them. I’ll probably be updating this over the next few weeks.
al-Kitaab is a horrible textbook.
I don’t know if anyone who follows me is studying Arabic, but in case you are, here’s a great resource. Vocab lists with MSA and Egyptian, grammar, lots of links, etc. If you want more resources, send me an ask and I’ll compile a list (which is probably something I should do anyways.)
لا pronounced ” la ” means no in Arabic
First Arabic Crusader Inscription Found
Israeli archaeologists have discovered the first ever Arabic Crusader inscription, they announced on Monday.
The epigraphic evidence emerged from a 800-year-old inscribed marble slab which originally sat in Jaffa’s city wall.
Bearing the name of the “Holy Roman Emperor” Frederick II, and the date “1229 of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,” the inscription was found broken on the top, right, left and bottom.
“The script is peculiar but once the slab was reassembled, it was deciphered with little effort,” Moshe Sharon, of Hebrew University, told Discovery News.
According to Sharon and colleague Ami Shrager, the inscription was drafted by Frederick’s officials, or possibly even the emperor himself, who was fluent in Arabic.
“Muslim scholars attended Frederick’s court in Sicily, where his main royal palace was located. There, he also had a harem that included a Muslim concubine,” Sharon said.
The grandson of both Frederick Barbarossa and Roger II of Sicily, Frederick II (1194- 1250) was the Christian king who led the Sixth Crusade of 1228-1229.
A series of military campaigns launched by the Christian countries of western Europe, the Crusades spanned two centuries, from 1095 to 1291.
Wearing a large Christian cross embroidered on their armor and shields, tens of thousands of men fought the Muslims to restore Christian control in and near Jerusalem.
“Frederick succeeded, without resorting to arms, in achieving major territorial gains for the Crusader Kingdom,” Sharon said.
The emperor’s most important feat was the handing over of Jerusalem to the Crusaders by the Egyptian sultan al-Malik al-Kamil, who had been impressed with Frederick’s knowledge of Arabic language.
Prior to achieving this agreement in 1229, the emperor, who had been excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for not starting the Crusade earlier, fortified the castle of Jaffa and left in its walls two inscriptions, one in Latin and the other in Arabic.
Only a small fragment remains of the Latin inscription. It was studied in the 19th century by the French Orientalist and archaeologist Clermont-Ganneau who ascribed it to Frederick II.
The Arabic inscription lists all the titles of Frederick and the Italian provinces he ruled. It also stresses that Frederick is the Holy Roman Emperor, “the protector of the Pope in Rome” and the “King of Jerusalem” — a crown “he put on his own head in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, and which he had assumed after marrying the 12 years old Yolanda the Queen of Jerusalem in 1225,” Sharon said.
According to the researchers, the plaque has no counterpart elsewhere.
“There is no other inscription of Fredrick or any other King of Jerusalem in Arabic. This is the only epigraphic evidence connected with the Sixth crusade which this emperor headed,” Sharon said.
- Camera: Olympus SP590UZ
- Aperture: f/5.6
- Exposure: 1/200th
- Focal Length: 4mm
This is the page that Iranian users will get from a company’s product because of sanctions.
It’s in Arabic.
Fun fact? The national language of Iran is Persian.
America, you make me laugh.
(You can google translate to “prove” it’s Arabic.)
