Why? ليش؟
I used this up for about a year when I was first learning Levantine Arabic, and I keep asking myself, why? Why would a native speaker deliberately pronounce verbs incorrectly? Why would he pronounce the final alif on the second and third person plural when this is never pronounced? Why would he pronounce the verbs so strangely? Why would he pronounce انتهينا - and why would the harakat show it to be pronounced - ‘intáhyana’ instead of ‘intahéena’? My friends who are native speakers and teachers of Levantine Arabic listen to it and shake their heads, saying no, this is wrong. They can’t understand why anyone would pronounce the verbs like this either. I still sometimes open the app as a quick reference, knowing that the spelling and pronunciation are sometimes correct, sometimes incorrect. I know enough Levantine Arabic to be able to tell, at least sometimes, when a word is spelt and pronounced incorrectly. I still wonder why. Why?
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Overall great
The interface is good and generally speaking everything else is. There’s only a few issues, I noticed in the audio pronunciation it’s not how they are actually pronounced in this dialect. For example it pronounces the ق instead of ء. A suggestion as well is that the app should include an example sentence for each word. Overall great app tho.
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Missing feature
I think this app’s only missing an important feature which is the litteral reading, this can be really helpful for prononciation for someone who doesn’t read arabic.
Problem with the audio
Problem with the audio playback. Please fix. Thank you
Response from developer
Hi, I have just updated the app to fix the problem you encountered. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for bringing it to my attention. In the future send an email to arcopodev@gmail.com
This is a gem
This is the best app ever for anyone interested in learning and practicing Levantine spoken Arabic.
1. It is very resourceful - has most used verbs, nouns, adjectives, prepositions etc. to build simple and complex sentences.
2. It is very easy to use - the tool is very handy and allows the user to look up words rapidly and save some ‘favourites’ which can be accessed via shortcuts. Looking up words is no longer a rate limiting step and this minimises the chances of giving up practicing Arabic (like 20 other times in my life) because it’s too much of a hassle to build sentences.
3. Great neat graphics
Thank you Timothy!
1. It is very resourceful - has most used verbs, nouns, adjectives, prepositions etc. to build simple and complex sentences.
2. It is very easy to use - the tool is very handy and allows the user to look up words rapidly and save some ‘favourites’ which can be accessed via shortcuts. Looking up words is no longer a rate limiting step and this minimises the chances of giving up practicing Arabic (like 20 other times in my life) because it’s too much of a hassle to build sentences.
3. Great neat graphics
Thank you Timothy!
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