RE: Hello from an exmuslim!
May 24, 2013 at 5:42 pm
(May 24, 2013 at 4:57 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: (May 24, 2013 at 4:54 pm)mota Wrote: Regarding the arabic dialects, almost no one uses MSA currently, especially in spoken Arabic.
When I went to the kingdom I spoke almost exclusively MSA.
Sure, people will understand what you're saying, because we learned MSA from the quran and the school texts. But were you able to understand the conversations around you?
(May 24, 2013 at 4:57 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: (May 24, 2013 at 4:54 pm)mota Wrote: But the dialects used in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia are pretty different from those used in Libya, Egypt and the other arab countries in asia.
I wouldn't even classify what the magrebi countries speak as arabic, some of them have thick french accent anyway, so there's no chance understand what the hell they're on about.
Well, I agree with you that their dialects are far away from arabic. But it's still considered an arabic dialect.
(May 24, 2013 at 5:01 pm)viocjit Wrote: Learn a dialect is a good idea I already thought about it , but which dialect ?
Depends on why you want to learn in the first place, and which country you want to understand better. I'd say in general egypatian may be a good choice, almost every arab understands it.
