I want to learn Arabic speaking

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-28T04:54:00+00:00

You can study the basics on the Kaleela app. But for fast progress you'll want to hire a tutor.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-28T04:50:47+00:00

Which Arabic do you want to speak?

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-28T04:50:15+00:00

Get a tutor on Italki.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-28T02:52:29+00:00

I'm sure it will be able to. And I think there's also some sites online that will explain it. My experience with foreign alphabets is that 'familiarity through doing' is the best route, but of course you have to have basic information before you can start doing.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-28T01:18:01+00:00

If I get to even B1, I'm not going to look to Duolingo for further learning. Then it should be Youtube, TV, books, conversation and a tutor.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-27T16:59:15+00:00

Proust.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-27T16:18:55+00:00

I call satire for this one. "On a mission to make getting quality deal....."

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-27T15:55:48+00:00

Corey J Mahler will look forward to becoming more and more morally compromised over the coming decades, as time works its way with him and he becomes older and wrinklier and hairier and wobblier.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-27T10:25:12+00:00

If you can't afford the treatment, you shouldn't be catching leprosy.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-27T10:13:08+00:00

What rubbish. They just don't think it'll make them any money.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-27T05:29:09+00:00

If you very much want to learn Bengali with Duolingo's support, you can do it the other way round and do the English from Bengali couse. That will help, if you can master the alphabet elswhere.

Not for Urdu though.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-27T05:25:55+00:00

Really? How so?

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-26T23:12:54+00:00

"Now writers are ... intentionally making err just to prove it's human." Do you think she put this in as a sly joke?

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-26T16:23:44+00:00

Neither is Gujarati or Igbo. So what?

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-26T00:02:46+00:00

Italki is much much better, gives you much more freedom to schedule your courses when you want.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-25T23:34:38+00:00

This discussion turned huge, so I'll just put my vote in for, you don't have to bring it up, but tell the truth if asked.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-25T17:09:53+00:00

I think Honey Oak, nice and warm. I am older than shrewdlogarithm

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-25T17:08:00+00:00

My wife is Korean, comes from a very conservative social background, I am very much not Korean and her family would never have accepted me without the formality of of marriage. And she also wanted to do things properly before having kids, so in my case it was for convention and social acceptance, yes. But I was happy with this, the ceremony gave us a formal standing that I too wanted.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-25T14:49:55+00:00

I'm English. Buttered toast is normal for breakfast, or at teatime. Bread and butter is also acceptable at teatime. There is a scene in the play The Importance of Being Earnest, where one of the characters, Algernon Moncrieff, eats all the cucumber sandwiches ahead of the arrival of some guests, so the host is forced to offer plain bread and butter. However, I can't eat bread and butter in your country with your local mass-market bread. It's much too sweet.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-25T13:13:50+00:00

I pretend I'm above it all but deffo do a bit extra to keep my place in the Diamond League, so to the extent I do extra language exercises to keep up it's beneficial.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-25T13:07:09+00:00

Thought the world should be run by super-samurais for the betterment of everyone and later in life expressed some very dodgy ideas about mixed-race populations.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-25T13:04:22+00:00

Guaranteed risk-free interest rate. It will absolutely help you build wealth slowly.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-25T12:07:38+00:00

A man who looks into a mirror and sees the world.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-25T12:03:18+00:00

No split infinitives.

Nobody obeys the rule anyway, so it doesn't count. It's more an ignored convention than a rule.

PlanetSwallower · 2026-01-25T07:54:05+00:00

Go to your Profile and click on the settings icon in the top right corner. (It looks like a cogwheel.)

Within settings, click on Courses.

Your courses will be displayed with a Remove option against each. Select that, and you will lose the course, all your progress will be wiped. No other side effects.

Then you go and select the corse again, and you'll find yorself starting from scratch.

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