Learn Arabic (Basic Phrases)! - Page 6

xpsal · 10-03-2006, 10:46 AM

Yes Mehaba is used mainly to welcome someone, someone who is comming to you, you don't say Merhaba so someone you visited, it's only the host or the receiver who says Mehaba (used mostly to welcome and also as a greeting at the same time.)

Asminha · 10-03-2006, 08:41 PM

MerHba isn't used as a greeting in Morocco! As Salim said, we use it to welcome a visitor. In Lebanon and some other countries they would say "marHaba" to greet someone.

Salam is a shortened form of assalâmo "alaykom wa raHmato Allah = May peace be upon you, and God's blessings.

KuzuKuzu · 10-03-2006, 09:01 PM

Asminha, i found these posts really interesting...now there's my question:i'm going to choose at university another language to learn,i don't know if take arabic or chinese!do you think that arabic is nearer to turkish??Cuz i'm learning turkish too...but you know,chinese maybe at the moment is more commercial!please i need an advice

thanks a lot

Asminha · 10-03-2006, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by KuzuKuzu

Asminha, i found these posts really interesting...now there's my question:i'm going to choose at university another language to learn,i don't know if take arabic or chinese!do you think that arabic is nearer to turkish??Cuz i'm learning turkish too...but you know,chinese maybe at the moment is more commercial!please i need an advice

thanks a lot

Well, if you ask an Arab like me, I'd certainly recommand Arabic

. If you ask a Chinese, they'll suggest Chinese, so I don't think that you're being objetive there by asking me

.
In both cases, you'll have to learn a new alphabet (or characters for Chinese). I think Chinese is way more complicated than Arabic. Don't think that Arabic and Turkish are close because they both have the word marhaba

.
Are you studying in some business section? You care about commercial languages? Or you want to study languages for fun?

xpsal · 10-11-2006, 10:27 PM

Chinese is very useful because if you speak it that means you will be able to communicate with more than one billion people, the bad news is that Chinese is also divided into Mandarin, Cantonese which are completely different from eachother.

Arabic has dialects too but relatively close to the mother Arabic (Standard Modern Arabic)

KuzuKuzu · 10-13-2006, 10:20 AM

Asminha,i know that in both cases i've to learn a new alphabet,but i like difficuly things

!I also know that Turkish and Arabic aren't the same,but i meant there're a lot of analogies..and i thought this just because i was thinking about "middle-west"languages.
Anyway,i'm studying languages at university:i'd like to be interpret and translater. Learn languages for me it's both study and fun,cuz i really like it

!

xpsal,Chinese it would be useful for business and commercial activities (especially at this time!) that's why i don't know what it'll be my choice..

maybe i can try with both

Thanks for the reply guys

Asminha · 10-13-2006, 03:19 PM

Good luck then kuzkuzu

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Asminha Administrator Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 4,795 Blog Entries: 1 Asminha is just really nice Asminha is just really nice	MerHba isn't used as a greeting in Morocco! As Salim said, we use it to welcome a visitor. In Lebanon and some other countries they would say "marHaba" to greet someone. Salam is a shortened form of assalâmo "alaykom wa raHmato Allah = May peace be upon you, and God's blessings. __________________ Speak Moroccan - Parlez marocain Moroccan Vocabulary - Vocabulaire Marocain
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KuzuKuzu Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: italy Posts: 176 KuzuKuzu is an unknown character at this point	KuzuKuzu Asminha, i found these posts really interesting...now there's my question:i'm going to choose at university another language to learn,i don't know if take arabic or chinese!do you think that arabic is nearer to turkish??Cuz i'm learning turkish too...but you know,chinese maybe at the moment is more commercial!please i need an advice thanks a lot
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10-11-2006, 10:27 PM	#40 (permalink)
xpsal The Linguanaut Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Washington DC Posts: 1,783 xpsal has a spectacular aura about	Chinese is very useful because if you speak it that means you will be able to communicate with more than one billion people, the bad news is that Chinese is also divided into Mandarin, Cantonese which are completely different from eachother. Arabic has dialects too but relatively close to the mother Arabic (Standard Modern Arabic) __________________ - Learn Arabic, Arabic Calligraphy, Spanish, Arabic Keyboard - Phrases in more than 52 languages - Try some Brain Games. Salim ۞ ۩ ۝ ۩۩۩
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10-13-2006, 10:20 AM	#41 (permalink)
KuzuKuzu Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: italy Posts: 176 KuzuKuzu is an unknown character at this point	Asminha,i know that in both cases i've to learn a new alphabet,but i like difficuly things !I also know that Turkish and Arabic aren't the same,but i meant there're a lot of analogies..and i thought this just because i was thinking about "middle-west"languages. Anyway,i'm studying languages at university:i'd like to be interpret and translater. Learn languages for me it's both study and fun,cuz i really like it ! xpsal,Chinese it would be useful for business and commercial activities (especially at this time!) that's why i don't know what it'll be my choice.. maybe i can try with both Thanks for the reply guys
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Asminha Administrator Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 4,795 Blog Entries: 1 Asminha is just really nice Asminha is just really nice	Good luck then kuzkuzu __________________ Speak Moroccan - Parlez marocain Moroccan Vocabulary - Vocabulaire Marocain
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