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Reply 20

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You might not believe this but the Sudanese accent is so close to the Saudi one sometimes I can't tell the difference.

To be honest, they are pretty close...but I'm not gonna lie and say that I got confused between the two. I can generally distinguish the different dailects...the ones that confuse me are those from the 'Al-Maghrib al-A'rabi' and times between the Qatari/Emarati one. You kinda get used to the rest, if you lived amongst them your entire life.

Reply 21

~style

Thats because in almaghrib its closer to French than Arabic, and one Algerian guy was surprised that we speak Arabic in Sudan, he kept arguying that there are other languages there, I was thinking look whos speaking.

Reply 22

mizfissy815

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Thats because in almaghrib its closer to French than Arabic, and one Algerian guy was surprised that we speak Arabic in Sudan, he kept arguying that there are other languages there, I was thinking look whos speaking.

Lol, true.

It would have been nice if there was someone who spoke proper Arabic, like in the olden days. It's a shame that nowadays you'll be laughed at if you spoke proper Arabic on the streets. A real shame.

Reply 23

~style

mizfissy815

Lol, true.

It would have been nice if there was someone who spoke proper Arabic, like in the olden days. It's a shame that nowadays you'll be laughed at if you spoke proper Arabic on the streets. A real shame.

See if you mix in with the right crowd you can. For example with scholars, they usualy speak proper Arabic. Also if you mix in with arabs with a different dialect they try to speak properly as much as they can so you understand them fully and if you go to non-arab muslims who can speak Arabic, its always proper with them lot.

Otherwise yes its a real shame and it gets worse everyday.

Reply 24

mizfissy815

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See if you mix in with the right crowd you can. For example with scholars, they usualy speak proper Arabic. Also if you mix in with arabs with a different dialect they try to speak properly as much as they can so you understand them fully and if you go to non-arab muslims who can speak Arabic, its always proper with them lot.

Otherwise yes its a real shame and it gets worse everyday.

Yeah, that true. All my Arabic teachers spoke proper Arabic all the time (in and out of class, well except when the got angry with us and their feisty Egyptian/Khaleeji/Sudanese/Shami sides pops out... :p:

) but they were really good.
I've met a few non-Arabs(American reverts/Pakistanis/Indians..) who studied in Saudi schools and came out with the Saudi dailect; others spoke pure Arabic. I'm not an Arab in the sense that Arabic is my native tongue, so I've picked up the Saudi dialect. But I know many Somalis, even those you see on T.V- speak arabic fluently in proper Arabic because that's how it's taught to them

Reply 25

~style

I thought if inshAllah when I'm older I'll only allow proper Arabic in my hosuehold lol

Reply 26

mizfissy815

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I thought if inshAllah when I'm older I'll only allow proper Arabic in my hosuehold lol

Good idea. lol.

Reply 27

~style

Its funny because it won't happen, unless my household is made up of the right crowd.

Reply 28

mizfissy815

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Its funny because it won't happen, unless my household is made up of the right crowd.

What makes you say that? InshAllah it will if you want it to.

I know that chances that happens for me is close to nil, but hey...I can still hope.

Reply 29

~style

Its just that everytime someone comes round we'd have to switch, and everytime we go out. Just doesn't seem convenient and also there is a chance that we might find it hard to keep up between us, not everyone can speak properly anymore and they get wrose as they get older.

Reply 30

mizfissy815

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Its just that everytime someone comes round we'd have to switch, and everytime we go out. Just doesn't seem convenient and also there is a chance that we might find it hard to keep up between us, not everyone can speak properly anymore and they get wrose as they get older.

Good point.

The fact that we're responsible for the next generation of children scares me a little. We're bad as it is, and I can't imagine it getting any worse.

Reply 31

tRG

mizfissy815

Lol, 'Malaaaysiaaa truly Asiaaa'!

Where in Saudi did you live?

Never been to Saudi Arabia before, actually :cool:

I've been finding it difficult to speak proper Arabic of late. At school, it was easier. But now when I see Arabs and have to speak with them, I end up using a mixture of dialects-which is how I speak when with friends (had Arab friends from all over) as I have this fear of being perceived as different/weird/person trying to speak fus7a.

Anyway.......kayf a7waalakom? or...shoo alwanakom? Not sure if the latter is correct. I only know the singular form for sure- shoo lownak/nek?

Reply 32

~Lc~

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shoo alwankom? haha you asking what colours we are? :p:

me is not arab but I've lived in an Arab country long enough to be considered one;yes;

I have speak a Jordanian dialect, and often mix up the mo2anath and mothakar when I speak fus7a :ninja:

it's a hard language :bawling:

Reply 33

mizfissy815

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..Funny how messed up 'street' Arabic has become. How are you?= What colour are you? ...We have massacred this once beautiful language, that's for sure.

tRG- If you want to say 'How are you?' in Saudi Arabic, it more ish that shoo(the latter is more of a shami thing :p: