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Im arab myself, hence the username :) What I find fascinating myself is that no on actually speaks MSA, modern standard arabic. It is mostly used for written t
by wara23arish 3y ago
Im arab myself, hence the username :)
What I find fascinating myself is that no on actually speaks MSA, modern standard arabic. It is mostly used for written text that is meant to last? We dont text in standard arabic at all. Its used in government forms/legal documents etc..
This makes it such a challenge to teach ppl arabic since many books use MSA which can often sound alien to native speakers.
- TheFreim 3y ago> which can often sound alien to native speakers. Do you mean alien in terms of being an unusual accent or that it's hard to understand?
- wara23arish 3y agoVery unusual accent. If you speak in MSA, I have to hold myself from laughing usually. There are also definitely some words that I’ve never of that arent common in local dialects.
- an_aparallel 3y agoMSA is used in newspaper, news reading and Quran is it not? (35 year migrated Aussie Palestinian here)