<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Tue 11 Dec 2007</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Transition to Gulf Arabic</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 11 Dec 2007</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:<a href="mailto:mutarjm@aol.com">mutarjm@aol.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Transition to Gulf Arabic</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br>RE: Transition to Gulf Arabic (Emirati dialect)<br><br>Greetings. <br><br>Re transition to Gulf Arabic (GA)<br><br>Since you have a foundation in MSA, you might get the?"Teach<br>Yourself?Gulf Arabic" multimedia package (textbook and accompanying<br>audiocassette tape - which?might be reformatted in a CD by now) by (IIRC)?Clive<br>Hole and Jack Smart. Searchable ("gulf arabic") and available on <<br>amazon.com >.<br><br>Most other references in?English about GA would be too basic (they're<br>usually phrasebooks that are a?mix of MSA and some pseudo-GA features),<br>or they are heavily descriptive and intended for?specialists in Arabic<br>dialectology (one of my fields). You do not have time to plow through<br>the three-volume set of paperbacks on GA (Emirati dialect) by Hamdi<br>Qafisheh, U. of Arizona Press; although they are out of print, copies<br>seem often available via search of Amazon.com and alibris.com.<br><br>Depending on what type of interpreting (formal / technical / commercial<br>versus casual and social) you might be doing, you may well find that<br>MSA suffices, as Emiratis usually will "tune up" their Arabic when they<br>notice that you communicate in MSA and ditto for Bahrainis. That was my<br>experience April when back in UAE and Oman for a few weeks.<br><br>Hope this helps; khair, in shaa' Allah.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Stephen H. Franke<br>Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 11 Dec 2007</div></body></html>