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  • Mansoor Almodhahkah

    RE: Tania & Moonirah

    posted by  Mansoor Almodhahkah in Kuwait forum 

    I've been to TIES for 4/5 Arabic classes so far. Kuwait Info, thanks for raising the dialect issue. Tania there are plenty of people there in a similar situation to you, I know a particularly affable American lady professor at a local college who attends these classes and her Arabic reading skills are amazing! There is what is known as "classical" Arabic, which very few Arabs actually speak on a day-to-day basis, and the dialects of us Gulf Arabs differs greatly from it, hence I know a lot of Kuwaiti Arabic, but I can't really understand Arabic news channels as its all in classical Arabic. With that in mind, I guess the best thing to do, and what I am struggling with, is learning how to read Arabic, which is what TIES offers, as when armed with your reading skills, you can then develop upon whatever dialect you desire.

    Moonirah, my uncle told me there are other places that offer similar activities, I guess he meant the AWARE place that you mentiond, I have never been so I can only vouch for TIES... however I am sure it is probably very similar

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