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Re: Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input

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Post by AbjadPro »

cess11 wrote: post #4

Are the vocalisations of the letters synthetic? Edit: If I wasn't acquainted with arabic script I'd probably not be able to make out the difference in vocalisation between some letters.

I used Artlist/ElevenLabs for the audio. I'm hoping to replace the audio with recordings by native speakers later this year.

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confidantlake wrote: post #13
gramie wrote: post #9

For a different method of learning Arabic (or several other languages), check out https://www.languagetransfer.org . It teaches Egyptian Arabic, explaining that the entire region knows this dialect because Egypt is the TV and movie hub of the Arabic world. It's all audio (MP3s or streaming) and completely free, and (IMHO) the best language learning system out there. I have used it to learn Spanish, my sixth language…

Kind of crazy that it has Swahili but not Portuguese.

Not crazy at all. Swahili is the Lingua Franca of Africa.

Re: Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input

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Post by bloak »

confidantlake wrote: post #13
gramie wrote: post #9

For a different method of learning Arabic (or several other languages), check out https://www.languagetransfer.org . It teaches Egyptian Arabic, explaining that the entire region knows this dialect because Egypt is the TV and movie hub of the Arabic world. It's all audio (MP3s or streaming) and completely free, and (IMHO) the best language learning system out there. I have used it to learn Spanish, my sixth language…

Kind of crazy that it has Swahili but not Portuguese.

I listened to the start of the Swahili course and it mentions that Swahili was the first one to be "commissioned", which I understand to mean that someone asked for it and paid for it specifically. It also said there was information about commissioning on the web site, but I couldn't find it. So it's a bit mysterious.

Commissioning a language course might be spare change for some government agency but I don't know whether they're allowed to spend money that way. They might be forced to put it out to tender and prefer domestic bidders or something like that.

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Post by tremarley »

confidantlake wrote: post #13
gramie wrote: post #9

For a different method of learning Arabic (or several other languages), check out https://www.languagetransfer.org . It teaches Egyptian Arabic, explaining that the entire region knows this dialect because Egypt is the TV and movie hub of the Arabic world. It's all audio (MP3s or streaming) and completely free, and (IMHO) the best language learning system out there. I have used it to learn Spanish, my sixth language…

Kind of crazy that it has Swahili but not Portuguese.

I remember that somebody made a Language Transfer Portuguese course, but it was heavily criticised and never relaunched
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