Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Five (Of My Favorite) Ways CLS Students Would Recommend to Learn Arabic

1- For practice writing Arabic, translate English pop songs into Arabic (for starters, TikTok by Kesha is a pretty fun one).

2- To speed up your reading and comprehension, read the Arabic crawl at the bottom of the screen on Al Jazeera news channel (this also encourages people to actually pay attention to television journalism!).

3- For listening practice, listen to Arabic movies. An anecdote: Arab movies are quite possibly the most dramatic, but funny movies. The story lines aren't always believable, and the actors aren't necessarily good looking either. Guaranteed entertainment.

4- To perfect your pronunciation, take private singing lessons! Naturally. Singing in classical Arabic is a lot of fun, and most singers use intonation.

5- To improve your Arabic overall, just be as sarcastic as possible. Arabs might not understand you, but it really tests your knowledge of the true meaning of words.


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