Suzana’s Journey Studying Arabic – Lingualism.com

My First Experiences Studying International Languages

I began to make use of the Web after I was 15 years previous. My major objective was to observe some English, Russian, and Spanish. Throughout my teenagehood, I used to obtain lots of assist from Latin American individuals (for Spanish), Individuals (for English), Italians, and Russian-speaking individuals (largely Russians and Ukrainians).

Dance and Music

My curiosity in Arabic began in my teenage years after I fell in love with stomach dance. (I noticed it for the primary time on a college tour in 2005, once we went to Greece, and there was a gifted girl who was dancing throughout our meal time, and I used to be impressed with all of her actions along with her stomach.) I wished to grow to be like her, so I began to study every thing on my own.

At first, I began watching some Spanish movies, however the good sources had been restricted. Then, I began watching some English movies. (It was okay however nonetheless not sufficient.).

Then, I began to do some analysis and browse in regards to the historical past of the stomach dance. I found lots of fascinating issues. That was already adequate as a result of I might see my progress.

Nevertheless, after I began to search for some music I might use… I found that each one songs had been in Arabic. So, I used to take heed to singers reminiscent of Moustafa Amar, Nancy Ajram, and lots of others.

But it surely was after I was listening to Moustafa Amar, Amr Diab, … many different singers from Egypt, it was like love at first listening to. I believed each single phrase they sang (although I understood nothing…. I suppose my coronary heart was succesful sufficient to acknowledge their feelings).

My First Steps in Arabic

My brother noticed how a lot my love for the Arabic language and its music was rising, so he determined to seek out one thing in order that I might study Arabic.

He discovered the “Arabic for Dummies” e book, which was high-quality, but it surely was clearly oriented to MSA. I accepted it simply because I solely noticed it was “Arabic language,” and I wished to study it irrespective of how. So, I began to make use of this and “Train myself Arabic,” however nothing labored for me since I might begin and cease with my Arabic studying.

I additionally tried some functions reminiscent of Memrise, Mondly (however in fact, I might discover solely MSA…), and later the app “Utalk” (which was the one app that has the highest 4 most typical dialects: Gulf, MSA, Egyptian, and Levantine Arabic.)

On the similar time, I might meet many individuals from the Arab world (Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and particularly Egypt). It was not solely on-line… I additionally met a few of them in individual right here in Serbia or on the worldwide polyglot gathering in Bratislava.

All of them grew to become good pals of mine. Infrequently, they might educate me some Arabic, however nothing went as I had hoped.

Studying Egyptian Arabic

Lastly, final yr (in August), I made a decision to go to Egypt as a result of I used to be so curious to study many fascinating issues about Egypt.

My brother let me know we would have liked to go to Egypt 4 months prematurely. So I made a decision to make use of this chance to study some Arabic (as a result of I wished to impress Arabs, particularly throughout my speak within the Egyptian dialect).

I used to review with a few lecturers on italki:

With all of them, I used to review the textbook “Colloquial Egyptian Arabic.”

In addition they taught me the Arabic letters. And I like how they taught me, particularly Amr’s manner. He’s so humorous and constructive. Plus, he is aware of some Turkish, which is crucial for me as a result of, at that second, my Turkish was already about B2/C1 stage.