Re: Learning to Speak Arabic

Mike Wright wrote:
> Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
>
> > 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.

"Syriana" was good, with the characters speaking the appropriate
register for the various occasions.


>
> At least this is a bit better than a TV show that I saw some years back
> that included a fairly long conversation in which one participant spoke
> Mandarin and the other spoke Cantonese. And there were two villains, one
> named "Chan" and the other "Tan", which are based on the Cantonese and
> Hokkien pronunciations, respectively, of the character =E9=99=B3
(Mandari=
n "Chen").
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> Mike Wright
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