/lit/ - Literature

>>16683455
You really don't. Unless you were born to it, the philological tendrils of Arabic will never take root in your soul. If you don't speak arabic, you never will. At best, you'll be an orientalist -- scum.

>>16683739
I hear much praise for this guy even among Arabs

>>16683739

yeah that's bullshit most Arabs don't even know proper classical Arabic. You just learn it like any other language with lots of patience and dedication.

>>16683455
Just go to France.

I'm writing the Appreciating the Qur'an thread series. In sha' Allah I will cover this a bit in the thread in the series on Arabic and furnish some resources. Classical Arabic is extremely sophisticated in terms of pronunciation rules, tajweed. The Qur'an for example has places where there are pauses, optional pauses, optional but not recommend pauses, this has special notation. Inflection, glotteral stops, consonant cluster, length of pronunciation (both mandatory and optional) are all taken precise note of, because a lot of meaning is conveyed in how you say it not just what you say. There are also many more consonants than in English and in consonants in common with English there is a distinction in pronunciation of them that renders them different letters. But it's very rewarding because English literature has nowhere near the attention to such detail as the Qur'an does.

>>16685019
KEK

>>16685019
Hey, i used to live on that street!

>>16683455
You go on Zbooks and download a copy of Arabic Through the Qu'ran by Alan Jones. But first you use Youtube videos to learn the alphabet by heart - learning each letter group, and the initial, medial and final position forms, until they are second nature. Then you start the book.

>>16685518
really?

>>16683455
just read le coran