"زَوْجَتَك بِجانِبَك يا مايْك."
Translation:Your wife is next to you, Mike.
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Should in my opinion be زَوْجَتُكَ, not زَوْجَتَك. Also I believe it is بِجانِبِكَ, not بِجانِبَك
Yes indeed, you're right. There are plenty of such errors in this course, maybe it's more of a spoken form? I can't say since i speak the morrocan dialect which is way too different than any levantine dialect of MSA
Yes,I read that the learn us here a less formal variant of MSA,which I reckon is MSA with a lot of dialect in it,but in my opinion it only confuses people,it's not a dialect and it is not really MSA,they should teach either a dialect or MSA.
I do agree with you too. We have all the time to learn dialects once we ve learnt the correct form
I wrote "beside you" in stead of "next to you", should it have been accepted?
What is the difference between those two words? I thought they were synonyms, i.e. a married woman.
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Why did someone mark down LeilaKhalid's remark? Because they don't know what "gender neutral" means? If your learning isn't up to hers, you should try and improve it.
As already said there are 2 grammar mistakes here as in many other examples: "zawjatuk(a)" and "bi-jaanibik(a)". They create there own grammar rules. That's not MSA.
The ceators of this course have been quite outspoken about not teaching MSA, but rather a pragmatic Arabic that should be both understandable in many places and more or less correct. If I have got it right, teaching MSA would be a bit like having a separate course in Shakespearian English – that is, not silly at all, but presumably not the obvious first choice for most people.
