a proposal

[Fragony]

even if the ones you knew spoke arabic, I would be of no use. The Moroccan dialect is too different...

No practical use needed, I expect people here to speak dutch. But it's always fun to learn another language, especially one that is so very different.

[KarlXII]

I think that'd be a good idea if we have a willing community of speakers who can devote their time to a member who desires to learn a foreign language.

(I'll be the first on the list of Swedish :D)

[KarlXII]

I don't think we should start out with a set number of languages, I think we should have our volunteer teachers teach their native tounge, ie Fragony teaching Dutch, Husar teaching German, SFTS teaching Texan.

[Ibrahim]

I don't think we should start out with a set number of languages, I think we should have our volunteer teachers teach their native tounge, ie Fragony teaching Dutch, Husar teaching German, SFTS teaching Texan.

otherwise, that's a very good suggestion indeed. I am organizing my first lesson ATM (slowly). it shall be about pronouns (its hard to introduce yourself without them afterall). so who will do what?

so should I teach dialect, or classical Arabic? (the two are different, so it matters).

I will teach only urban south levantine (spoken by urban palestinians and jordanians), if you choose dialect.

[Fragony]

Classical. Let's see how this plays out, again excellent idea. One language at the time imho. Don't want to be freeriding, but I really don't know if I have the time to take on something similar.

[LittleGrizzly]

I don't suppose it matters if it is more than one langauge at once.. but i will only attempt one at a time anything more would just fry grizzy's brain...

Have you setup a group for the activity... (if so... link please)

[Ibrahim]

I don't suppose it matters if it is more than one langauge at once.. but i will only attempt one at a time anything more would just fry grizzy's brain...

Have you setup a group for the activity... (if so... link please)

it takes time to organize the information in the first place: I have to find new grammar books/sources* (my old ones are in kuwait), find a way of quikly typing stuff in Arabic (I cannot type Arabic), scan some samples of Arabic, and once all that is done, then a group will surely go up.

as you can see, its first organize and prepare, then do.

also, I have a lot of work to do outside this. I have to write up my research paper-dinosaur metabolism is a difficult subject


*even though I can write the arabic language, and read it perfectly, I still need those books to explain it more effectively. they also have an organized format that is simpler than just by memory.