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| meh | Jul 11 2012, 06:34 PM Post #326 |
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Through various intensive programs, University courses, and study abroad, I will be cramming three academic years of Arabic into a single year. I fear for my sanity. |
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| New Harumf | Jul 12 2012, 09:53 AM Post #327 |
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I fear you might become a Jahadist! |
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| Sedulius | Jul 12 2012, 04:07 PM Post #328 |
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It can be done. You can become fluent within a year in any language if you go over to the country in which it is spoken. |
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| meh | Jul 12 2012, 09:45 PM Post #329 |
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I will be studying abroad next spring in the Persian Gulf, in addition to an intensive language course either in Morocco or Egypt. NH, if anything, I fear I will become attracted to Middle Eastern women, which would actually be f**king awesome. |
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| Al Araam | Jul 13 2012, 03:36 AM Post #330 |
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Fucking awesome? Trouble more like. Been there, believe me. |
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| Sedulius | Jul 13 2012, 10:10 AM Post #331 |
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meh, if you do become attracted to Middle Eastern women, it'll just be a phase. Believe me. We all go through it at some point. Eventually, you get to the point where a woman of one ethnicity is just as attractive as another if they have the same attractive features. I'm not attracted to most African women because of their usual facial features, but there are some with different than usual features that I find highly attractive. For the longest time I went through an Asian phase, but now I honestly am no more attracted to a beautiful Asian woman than I am to a beautiful European woman. They're both equally "God damn!". Middle Eastern woman = Mediterranean women = Hispanic women = Indian women = meaning "equal to", not equals. Meaning, all these ethnicities have rather similar features, and I am just as attracted to an attractive woman from any of them. My overall, overwhelming preference? European women, particularly Irish women, because that's what I want to breed with. I just have different priorities than most people. |
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| flumes | Jul 13 2012, 02:06 PM Post #332 |
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I am one class away from graduating in Finance. Whenever my head issues resolve, I will head back and finish that class. My hope is to find a job in Real Estate, but anything in Finance would be great. I know I can get the jobs I've already had, and I could get by on those... But I'm going to try very hard to get what I would call a real job. Hopefully this will be in the fall. |
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| meh | Jul 13 2012, 06:00 PM Post #333 |
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Well, I'm hoping to become attracted to them in general, not in an overbearing yellow fever kind of way. I'm not some guy who is going to become obsessed with any one ethnicity. I'm extremely selective in my tastes, and it would do me good to expand my horizons a bit. |
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| Rhadamanthus | Nov 8 2012, 09:12 PM Post #334 |
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Meh, how is your Arabic going? Lately, I've been thinking I might like to learn the language. Since I don't think that the United States are going to disengage from the Arab world any time soon, I think it may be useful. |
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| meh | Nov 30 2012, 01:12 PM Post #335 |
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I wish I could say it was going good. I took an intensive program during the summer, and got a years worth of Arabic. That class taught me a lot more than I have ever learned in an language class before. The second level Arabic class I'm in now at my university is decent, but its the professor's first year as a professor, and she isn't very good, at all. I just applied for the Critical Language Scholarship, so hopefully I'll be in the Middle East somewhere this summer in an intensive Arabic program. Its a difficult language, if only for the fact that it uses a completely different alphabet. I find the grammar fairly simple. In other news, I was just accepted for an undergraduate research course next semester. I'll be writing a paper on the impact that non-state actors have on the Westpahlian State Model, and how that in turn affects organizations such as the UN that are built upon the foundation of the Westphalian State Model. If everything goes well, I'll be publishing it by the end of Spring. |
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| Al Araam | Dec 3 2012, 11:25 AM Post #336 |
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Are you learning MSA or are you actually learning a dialect? The problem I experienced when trying to learn Arabic is that everyone wants to teach you MSA, which isn't terribly practical. Sure you can read the newspaper but you still have to relearn the language if you actually want to talk to anybody. Particularly if you go somewhere where they use one of the more bizarre dialects.
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| Sedulius | Dec 3 2012, 12:58 PM Post #337 |
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meh, once you learn the alphabet for a phonetic language, they get completely easy. Once you have the alphabet out of the way, it's as easy as learning any language using the Latin alphabet, depending on the grammar complexity. I personally find Russian easier than German because the grammar in Russian is far simpler. Arabic I was never able to memorize the alphabet. I just wasn't interested enough. But the grammar was relatively easy. |
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| Al Araam | Dec 3 2012, 01:31 PM Post #338 |
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I didn't have too much of a problem with the alphabet. I only took two quarters a couple years ago before transferring to a university where I could resume my studies of Turkish. And yes, thankfully most languages are phonetic, unlike English. I can't imagine trying to learn a language where you essentially have to learn to read then learn to speak, or vice versa. And then try to learn the bastardized, constantly changing version of the language, with its slang and idioms, that we use in everyday life. |
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| meh | Dec 3 2012, 03:01 PM Post #339 |
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I'm currently learning MSA, but if I get lucky and get the Critical Language Scholarship, then I'll be spending my summer in Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, or Egypt learning Arabic. In addition to MSA, they also start teaching you the regional dialect. The alphabet was pretty simple; I had that down in a few weeks during the intensive course. German grammar is definitely much more difficult than Arabic though. Arabic can follow either SVO or VSO, depending on the sentence. Edited by meh, Dec 3 2012, 03:01 PM.
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