leftist-linguaphile:

Some revolutionary words

• revolution = revolución
• liberty = libertad 
• change = cambio 
• nation = nación 
• action = acción 
• resistance = resistencia 
• solidarity = solidaridad 
• hope = esperanza 
• education = educación 
• health = salud 
• love = amor 
• brotherhood/sisterhood = hermandad 
• humanity = humanidad 

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leftist-linguaphile:

¿Por qué? vs. Porque

• ¿Por qué? = Why
• Porque = Because

Example:

¿Por qué llegaste tarde? = Why were you late?

Porque se me pasó el tren = Because I missed the train.

fearandwar:

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.

http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons

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.

http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Arabic

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.

http://uz-translations.net/index.php

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.

How To Learn Any Language

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.

Reddit Language Learning FAQ

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.

List of Public Domain Books

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.

Arabic Vocab

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.

Laoshu50500

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.

Natural Arabic

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.

All the Arabic You Never Learned the First Time Around

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.

http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons

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.

http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Arabic

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.

http://uz-translations.net/index.php

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.

How To Learn Any Language

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.

Reddit Language Learning FAQ

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.

List of Public Domain Books

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.

Arabic Vocab

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.

Laoshu50500

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.

Natural Arabic

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.

All the Arabic You Never Learned the First Time Around

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’m intensely studying Greek, Arabic, and Latin. Syriac and Hebrew look interesting and I know I need to work on German for graduate school.

I would have been an awesome Orientalist.