Learning Arabic & Hebrew

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Comment by or dobkowski on June 3, 2012 at 8:42pm

Hi yehuda

there is a group in Jerusalem

U can contact Assaf at

tutidadog@gmail.com

Comment by Yehuda Schwartz on June 3, 2012 at 5:20pm

Is there a group exchanging Hebrew/Arabic lessons in Jerusalem?
Do you want to create one with me?

Comment by Yehuda Schwartz on June 3, 2012 at 5:17pm

Hi Ayman,

I can teach Hebrew. I am interested in learning Arabic.
Have we a deal?

Comment by Irit Hakim-Keller on June 3, 2012 at 12:53am

your life story is  fascinating and inspiring. 

thanks for sharing.

Comment by Tim Upham on June 3, 2012 at 12:41am

My mother was a Sephardic Jew, but she died of breast cancer when I was 6.  I was handed to non-Jews to be raised.  I was 17, when I found out that I was half Sephardic Jew and half Hungarian Calvinist.  I learned Hungarian later from my paternal relatives in Budapest, and learned Ladino at a Sephardic synagogue.  So I saw the best way to learn about this lost Jewish heritage, was to work on behalf of Israel to coexist with its neighbors.  It has been very formidable, but it just takes a lot of perseverance.  Including learning as much as you can.

Comment by Irit Hakim-Keller on June 3, 2012 at 12:30am

Nice to read about your experience. 

as for the one who think that Arabic is a language of murderers, well ...they are just ignorants... or stupid ... 

never read Ladino, but I guess everything might be learned. I do write Arabic that way - Hebrew transcript. It is nice and clear. I t has its own rules.

Comment by Tim Upham on June 3, 2012 at 12:21am

I learned both Hebrew and Arabic in college, and really had a chance to use them both in the Middle East.  But now I am retired and living in the United States, so the big problem I have is that I am starting to forget them.  I am hoping, that a situation like this well help me stay abreast with them of both.  Explaining Hebrew for me, is not that difficult, but to explain Arabic, I will always get "but that is the language of murderers."  So every little bit of information I get helps.  I heard Judeo-Arabic, and could make it out word for word what was being said, but it was a challenge to try to read it in the Hebrew alphabet.  Have you tried reading Ladino in the Hebrew alphabet?  Apparently, they take the Hebrew letter koph to make the Spanish sound que.  So learning is a never ending process.

Comment by Irit Hakim-Keller on June 3, 2012 at 12:09am

:) I am for that, dear Tim. that is why I learn Arabic. I enjoy it very very  much.

but, really, where do you learn languages? by yourself? internet? or?

Comment by Tim Upham on June 2, 2012 at 11:54pm

Those words for puddle and ocean, I have never come across them before.  I have also used the word Yam, and nobody ever corrected me.  I used Arabic as an example because of the terrible stigma against Arab/Islamic society I have heard and seen on this website.  BIGOTRY!  With a capital B.  But both Hebrew and Arabic have the letter Alef, Sin, Shin, Mem, and Noon.  So it is not a case of changing your teachers, but that language is a never non-stop learning process.  Hopefully, we can use language as a means of breaking down long standing prejudice.  Todah/Shukran.

Comment by Irit Hakim-Keller on June 2, 2012 at 11:12pm

Well, Tim, as a matter of fact - in Hebrew  "the way you talk to a man is completely different than the way you talk to a woman"...just it is in Arabic. The two languages are coming from the same resource. It is nothing to do with  " understand how sexually segregated Arab/Islamic society is."  Also  I must correct you about the meaning of the word YAM -    for SEA. There is SHLOOLIT for a PUDDLE and OKYANOOS for OCEAN.
I am not sure where do you learn Hebrew...perhaps you might want change your teacher?????

Shalom-Salaam

many smiles

Irit

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