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ابن بطوطة
by alsadi 9y ago
ابن بطوطة
- toyg 9y agoI have no idea what you wrote, but as somebody who grew through decades of bakeji and '?', I love how modern systems are finally mature enough to deal smoothly with non-ASCII languages.
- saidmasoud 9y agoIt's "Ibn Battuta" in Arabic.
- tomcooks 9y agoIf only it was easier to switch mid word from ltr to rtl text selection and deletion
- duncan_bayne 9y agoجوجل ترجمة لانقاذ :)
- tomcooks 9y agoI'd have expected Google to be written as غوغا
- tomcooks 9y agoI am learning arabic, it's getting easier to recognize letters but it's impossible for me to guess how a word might sound when there are no diacritics Eg: I'd have read the first word as alif+ba+noon = ABN
- Cyph0n 9y agoIt's difficult even for native users, so don't worry too much! Great job reading the letters though! Learning a language that uses a different alphabet is a tough endeavor (I've tried!). When diacritics are not present, you need to guess what the word is based on context. Two examples: هناك علم على غصن الشجرة هناك علم في ذلك الكتاب Notice that the word "علم" is present in both sentences. But once you read the sentences, you'll end up realizing that the words are different. If diacritics were present, this would be immediately obvious! The two sentences, translated, are: There is a flag on the tree branch. There is knowledge in that book. The word "علم" means either "flag" or "knowledge/science" in these two sentences.
- tomcooks 9y agoShukran I really appreciate the welcoming attitude and the explanation! Copying this in my todo.md file so I can keep it for future reference If it doesn't bother you, do you happen to know a good online arabic dictionary, possibly showing letters separatedly and pronounciation
- Cyph0n 9y agoThe best general online dictionary I know of in Arabic is https://www.almaany.com/ar/dict/ar-ar/ https://www.almaany.com/ar/dict/ar-ar/. They have an English-to-Arabic version here: https://www.almaany.com/en/dict/ar-en/ https://www.almaany.com/en/dict/ar-en/. Two good English-to-Arabic dictionaries: * https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-arabic/ https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-arabic/ * https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-arabic/ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-arabic/ The best learner's dictionaries I could find: * http://arabic-dictionary.lingualism.com/ http://arabic-dictionary.lingualism.com/ Al Jazeera has an excellent Arabic learning website that uses clips from their shows and news programs to teach the language: http://learning.aljazeera.net/en/ http://learning.aljazeera.net/en/. One cool thing is that they include diacritics in all of the text to avoid the problem we were discussing above. Feel free to contact me (@aksiksi on Twitter) if you have any further questions. I would be glad to help you as much as I can :)