Re: Learning to Speak Arabic

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> Mike Wright wrote:
>
> > By the way, I was watching a movie the other night, "The Barbarian"
(on
> > TCM), which was supposed to be taking place in Egypt. The male lead
was
> > named "Jamil". I would have expected "Gamil", at the very least. In my
> > Arabic class we sometimes referred to our dialect as /igIpS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> In the ABC propaganda move "The Path to 9/11," shown Sunday and Monday,
> all the bad guys spoke excellent MSA (even the Iranian ones). And
> somehow I doubt that they had Egyptian, Saudi, Yemeni, Jordanian, etc.,
> accents.

IIRC there was some colloquial sprinkeled, and IIRC a moroccan
character was speaking with an egyptian accent.


> 
> Unfortunately it was a pretty good movie.