ARABIC-L: PEDA: English-Arabic Dictionary Response

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Date: 02 Apr 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: English-Arabic Dictionary Response

Greetings.

Your tutor may be "tangentially inspired" with that insistence on your
"writing some MSA," which term implies original composition.

You may benefit more from strengthening your background with references in
grammar and composition, rather than word-searching in dictionaries.

If you can read MSA articles in general Arabic media (magazines and
newspapers), you might try composing hypothetical replies or comments based on
what you've read.

Also, you might visit the web site for the weekly Saudi Arabian journal "Ain
Al-Yaqeen" and see the matching articles in English and Arabic (via the
switching button in the upper left corner). URL < http://www.ain-al-yaqeen.com
> should take you there.

You can view (and print out) both E and A articles inside an English-only MS
Windows environment. The Arabic articles seem to be in RTF and sometimes have
a smudgy appearance when printed (although that might be my printer). You
don't need Adobe Acrobat reader.

HTH,

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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