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- "جورج مُتَرجِم."
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807
I am in diacritic heaven! So very happy! The font could be larger though in some of the questions, but still excellent!
972
Agree. Can't see the small signs above and beneath the letters. Please make it larger as it hurts the learning process...
Try the Woodooh extension at https://basshelal.github.io/Wudooh/ It allows you to adjust the size of the Arabic font to whatever size you are comfortable with
617
Does this work on android phone? Cannot zoom at all on phone so will soon have to give up learning, I think.
I give you a lingot, but just to clarify because I'm new to Arabic: it may be helpful to note that Arabic loves nominal sentences in which there is no copulative verb (no joining verb) so that it's just the two nouns. However, the verb "to become" in Arabic, كَانَ (kaana), can function in some specific contexts as the equivalent of the verb "to be" since there is technically no verb "to be" in Arabic, which is your main point. The way كَانَ functions results in people sometimes calling it the verb "to be" as is the case in the following web link: https://wordadayarabic.com/2013/06/04/verb-conjugation-ii-to-be/ Specifically, the verb "to become" takes the place of the missing "be" when indicating past or future time (A.S. Tritton, Arabic [Teach Yourself Arabic, 1943] 96-97). Notice that Tritton doesn't bring this into his grammar until almost 100 pages, so we'll get to this complication later in DL. Also, there is a negative verb to be, لَيْسَ (laysa). For those who come to Arabic from other Semitic languages, you may recognize the G-stem of the verb קא in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic can mean "to exist" (from the root קום/קוי, to stand) and לית (most Aramaic dialects, including Christian Palestinian Aramaic) // Syriac ܠܝܬ, "there is not, it is not."
1673
I suppose مُتَرجِم should be pronounced "mutarjim" but why did I hear "muturjim"? Many thanks in advance.
1599
You are both correct; the audio pronunciation is wrong. I can confirm that this is not the only mistake.
865
The font is way too small, I have to set the zoom to 200% in order to read everything correctly :p
Try the Wudooh extension at https://basshelal.github.io/Wudooh/ It allows you to adjust the size of the Arabic font to whatever size you are comfortable with
Try the Wudooh extension at https://basshelal.github.io/Wudooh/ It allows you to adjust the size of the Arabic font to whatever size you are comfortable with
82
please for the love of language increase the font size for the Arabic in the lesson, it's way too small.
Try the Wudooh extension at https://basshelal.github.io/Wudooh/ It allows you to adjust the size of the Arabic font to whatever size you are comfortable with
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The developers should be making an accessibility option native to the duolingo platform, however I appreciate your workaround, thanks!
We never add "un" to foreign (non-arabic) names
Ali..omar..basim..rawad..reem...etc are arabic
George, John, Liza.. Washington.. Berlin.. are foreign names..
Proper noun CAN have them عليٌّ في المدرسة ذهب أحمدٌ إلى السوق أحببت محمداً
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How do you know that "is a" is included? Do you just makes the assumption because it sounds correct in English? Or are there specific characters that represent "is a"?
82
because "george is translator" makes no sense. someone with more Arabic knowledge might have a better answer, but as far as I can see, "is a" isn't really a thing in Arabic... based on a brief Google search, there is an indefinite article suffix, but I don't think it would apply in the context of A = B
http://arabic.speak7.com/arabic_articles.htm this is based on this source.
1599
Duo pronunciation: MuTarJim. An Egyptian heavy countryside accent where t is made into a T. The arabic pronunciation: mutarjim. Mu-tar-jim
1443
Please consider increasing the font. I am a native English speaker. I am learning the pronunciation, the way words are written, and I'm memorizing words. Thank you.
Try the Wudooh extension at https://basshelal.github.io/Wudooh/ It allows you to adjust the size of the Arabic font to whatever size you are comfortable with
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in 'proper' English you can't really contract "is" to " 's" for anything except "it is". it's just not naturally written like that (and looks like possessive, usually). it's very common to say/hear because spoken language is very often simplified for more efficient communication, but it's not considered correct English currently.