What courses are you taking this semster?

[ilikeverin]

ARB 101: Introductory Arabic I
CEM 181H: Honors Chemistry I
CEM 185H: Honors Chemistry I Labs
PLS 334: Campaigns and Elections
LIN 401: Introduction to Linguistics

[ilikeverin]

ARB 101: Introductory Arabic I

Have fun with pharyngealized sounds!

Whee!

Hey, if I taught myself how to uvular trill, I can pharyngealize

(I figure it was that or Mandarin, and learning a new alphabet/abjad is way more appealing to me than learning thousands of new characters.  And I don't think I could stop myself from lapsing into English tone patterns when I got excited )

[ilikeverin]

ARB 101: Introductory Arabic I

Have fun with pharyngealized sounds!

Whee!

Hey, if I taught myself how to uvular trill, I can pharyngealize

(I figure it was that or Mandarin, and learning a new alphabet/abjad is way more appealing to me than learning thousands of new characters.  And I don't think I could stop myself from lapsing into English tone patterns when I got excited )

Uvular trills are nothing. Seriously. At least a quarter of the sounds of Arabic are harder than that.

Well, when reading the Qur'an today, I was confronted with ّع, a geminated voiced pharyngeal fricative ([?\). I spent a few minutes with that one. And then there was طع ([t_?\i?\]).

Imagine how hard it must be for non-linguists :S

Still, with Spanish and Arabic as my languages (and probably a random semester of a random third one... there's Portuguese for Spanish-speakers or something that would make bono happy), I expect at least a few men in nondescript suits and nondescript cars nondescriptly knocking on my door, at some nondescript time after I graduate.

[ilikeverin]

ARB 101: Introductory Arabic I

Have fun with pharyngealized sounds!

Whee!

Hey, if I taught myself how to uvular trill, I can pharyngealize

(I figure it was that or Mandarin, and learning a new alphabet/abjad is way more appealing to me than learning thousands of new characters.  And I don't think I could stop myself from lapsing into English tone patterns when I got excited )

Uvular trills are nothing. Seriously. At least a quarter of the sounds of Arabic are harder than that.

Well, when reading the Qur'an today, I was confronted with ّع, a geminated voiced pharyngeal fricative ([?\). I spent a few minutes with that one. And then there was طع ([t_?\i?\]).

Imagine how hard it must be for non-linguists :S

Still, with Spanish and Arabic as my languages (and probably a random semester of a random third one... there's Portuguese for Spanish-speakers or something that would make bono happy), I expect at least a few men in nondescript suits and nondescript cars nondescriptly knocking on my door, at some nondescript time after I graduate.

Well, good luck with s_t (even though Wikipedia says it's T, it really isn't), X/, x (though that shouldn't be that hard), z_t (even though Wikipedia says it's D, it really isn't), s_?\, d_?\, t_?\, and z_?\. Plus the massive amount of allophony exhibited as a result.

(X-)SAMPA is for n00bs.

[ilikeverin]

ARB 101: Introductory Arabic I

Have fun with pharyngealized sounds!

Whee!

Hey, if I taught myself how to uvular trill, I can pharyngealize

(I figure it was that or Mandarin, and learning a new alphabet/abjad is way more appealing to me than learning thousands of new characters.  And I don't think I could stop myself from lapsing into English tone patterns when I got excited )

Uvular trills are nothing. Seriously. At least a quarter of the sounds of Arabic are harder than that.

Well, when reading the Qur'an today, I was confronted with ّع, a geminated voiced pharyngeal fricative ([?\). I spent a few minutes with that one. And then there was طع ([t_?\i?\]).

Imagine how hard it must be for non-linguists :S

Still, with Spanish and Arabic as my languages (and probably a random semester of a random third one... there's Portuguese for Spanish-speakers or something that would make bono happy), I expect at least a few men in nondescript suits and nondescript cars nondescriptly knocking on my door, at some nondescript time after I graduate.

Well, good luck with s_t (even though Wikipedia says it's T, it really isn't), X/, x (though that shouldn't be that hard), z_t (even though Wikipedia says it's D, it really isn't), s_?\, d_?\, t_?\, and z_?\. Plus the massive amount of allophony exhibited as a result.

(X-)SAMPA is for n00bs.

You use Kirshenbaum?

Who needs derivations from IPA when you can go to the source?