Arabic-L:PEDA:Transition to Gulf Arabic

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Date: 11 Dec 2007
From:mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:Transition to Gulf Arabic

RE: Transition to Gulf Arabic (Emirati dialect)

Greetings.

Re transition to Gulf Arabic (GA)

Since you have a foundation in MSA, you might get the?"Teach
Yourself?Gulf Arabic" multimedia package (textbook and accompanying
audiocassette tape - which?might be reformatted in a CD by now) by  
(IIRC)?Clive
Hole and Jack Smart. Searchable ("gulf arabic") and available on <
amazon.com >.

Most other references in?English about GA would be too basic (they're
usually phrasebooks that are a?mix of MSA and some pseudo-GA features),
or they are heavily descriptive and intended for?specialists in Arabic
dialectology (one of my fields). You do not have time to plow through
the three-volume set of paperbacks on GA (Emirati dialect) by Hamdi
Qafisheh, U. of Arizona Press; although they are out of print, copies
seem often available via search of Amazon.com and alibris.com.

Depending on what type of interpreting (formal / technical / commercial
versus casual and social) you might be doing, you may well find that
MSA suffices, as Emiratis usually will "tune up" their Arabic when they
notice that you communicate in MSA and ditto for Bahrainis. That was my
experience April when back in UAE and Oman for a few weeks.

Hope this helps; khair, in shaa' Allah.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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