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[QUOTE]Originally posted by newcomer: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Snoozin: [b] I do have a question for you. My fiance is a journalist too (TV/radio), and he said they use (or used?) Classical Arabic on the air. Is that true? He speaks classical, Egyptian, and fluent English. His English is better than most Americans' English. But I don't really understand what role, if any, Classical Arabic plays in daily life. Because now I've heard of this Modern Standard Arabic? [/b][/QUOTE] Leila, people do laugh sometimes or at least raise eyebrows when I speak in my classical Arabic, and I’ve even had a taxi driver telling me it would make life easier for me if I learn Arabic, (and that was when I was coming out of my level 10 class…I guess my English accent was coming through too strongly!) But when people realize that is the way I communicate in Arabic they either accept it and try to converse with a mixture of Egyptian and Arabic, or slip into English, if they know it. It’s amazing though how quickly shopkeepers stop giggling when they realize I want to spend money, and they are suddenly able to understand every word I say! Snoozin, basically the language that is spoken throughout the Arabic world is the local dialect/colloquial language or “’ammiyyah” and each country has its own version which seems to be a mixture of Arabic with words and rules from the original language of the people before Arabic was introduced or from colonial influences, or the original local Arabic dialect. This language is not usually written, except in things like strip-cartoons, but I hear that there is a newspaper here that is written in Egyptian Arabic now. Classical Arabic is based on the language of the Qur’an, which is where all the grammar rules were taken from. This has developed a bit over the years and some words are considered old fashioned and rarely used now and more modern words have been added (Modern Standard Arabic), but it still follows the classical rules. This language is used as the written language for books, newspapers, and any written communication, even letters, but the only times is it seems to be spoken is for official purposes, such as the news, formal speeches, lectures, and strangely enough Japanese cartoons (the Japanese worked out if they wanted to sell their cartoons throughout the Arabic world they needed a standard language…I once met a 4 year old Malay girl who spoke wonderful classical Arabic from watching cartoons!) [QUOTE] So could you tell me what *shamal* and *yameen* mean? [/QUOTE] “left’ and “right” [/QB][/QUOTE]
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