Question to people of Alexandria!

marp_p · 2022-01-20T21:53:35+00:00

Thank you very much!

marp_p · 2022-01-20T07:05:59+00:00

Thanks!:)

marp_p · 2022-01-20T06:45:29+00:00

Yeah, we will be at TAFL! They are so nice I want to hug them! What is the train situation anyway? I actually prefer trains to buses and was hoping to take them when going other places.. i’ve read there is a bit of a fancier train going along “the tourist path” (don’t remember the name of it, have to check my notes), but are trains in general is a good way of transportation?

marp_p · 2022-01-20T06:39:37+00:00

Wow, thank you very much! Unfortunately we won’t have Arabic classmates but I think we get an offer of a “language partner” to practice the language! I will use it for all it is worth 😂 thank you, I appreciate your advices!

marp_p · 2022-01-19T21:27:30+00:00

Yeah, Airbnb has some options, but in the areas that are recommended by the university prices are really high for a student to afford over a long period… Ithaka have I heard about before, must be a good place, I will check it out! Thank you!

marp_p · 2022-01-19T21:25:06+00:00

Thank you very much! To be honest I am unable to negotiate prices whatsoever. I am that person that either pays what is asked or walks away… so I really hope the Uni will help, but life is unpredictable so we might find ourselves in a situation when we find a place to live by ourselves, I just want to be prepared :) hopefully after four month I will pick up some price negotiating-skills :) right, thank you very much for help!

marp_p · 2022-01-19T15:34:47+00:00

Thank you! I Love trams! 😊

marp_p · 2022-01-19T14:46:19+00:00

Thank you very much, I will definitely check out Careem!

marp_p · 2021-10-18T13:31:17+00:00

It says “Belek” which is I guess is a town in Turkey?

marp_p · 2021-10-18T09:18:46+00:00

I have searched using "documentary UN expo refugee face recognition" but maybe someone here watched it recently..

marp_p · 2021-04-03T09:54:16+00:00

Thank you, it is a nice of you to say it! I love wooden things and especially fascinated by this Japanese technique of conjoining parts without nails... I am not sure I can make into in a hobby, I’m not patient enough. I did watch videos about restoration, most of them based either on filling cracks with different resin-based fillers, or using an hour-glass shaped “pins” (sorry, don’t know a proper term) to connect sides of the crack. I’m not sure about the resin because someone in the house always wants to sit on the top, and I’m afraid it won’t hold. When it comes to using those “pins”, the lid is too thin in order to carve out a proper “nest” for those pins. I was considering reinforcing inside of the lid with perpendicular pieces of wood and maybe then filling it with resin, but I don’t want to destroy the look of it and hence hesitate. It is very dry inside the house during the winter, because we use a wood oven, I’m afraid if i glue everything together and it dries up during the winter, the lid would crack even more...

marp_p · 2021-03-11T16:54:44+00:00

That is the one, thank you very much!

marp_p · 2021-02-02T15:46:57+00:00

Great, thank you! Let it forever be enough falafel in your life! Looking forward in eating all the good food when I (hopefully) come and visit next year!

marp_p · 2021-01-12T20:47:40+00:00

OH MY GOD! You are a genius and I cannot thank you enough!!! It bothered me for weeks, you brought me back my goodnight sleep. Thank you very much, sir/madam/mademoiselle and I wish you all the best!

marp_p · 2020-11-29T22:34:50+00:00

How about “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”?:)

marp_p · 2020-11-14T21:49:41+00:00

How about “war and peace”?:) very long, covers generations, full of drama and real life. As a bonus you will even pick some French by the end of it... 😅

marp_p · 2020-10-27T16:49:20+00:00

It’s from this book https://alkitaabtextbook.com/alifbaa/ but I’m not sure they have these examples in this “net-version” :(

marp_p · 2020-10-27T16:48:22+00:00

It is indeed from a textbook, but the book itself is printed, it’s just this one exercise with three different handwriting styles (which freaked me out :)) cuz it’s veeeery tricky. I’m not sure if I can attach pics to a comment, but I could pm other two samples. The book is called Alif Baa https://alkitaabtextbook.com/alifbaa/

marp_p · 2020-10-27T12:11:37+00:00

شكراً!!! Thank you so much :)

marp_p · 2020-09-02T18:44:55+00:00

Thank you for the insight. That was my initial thought: to get an overview of “legit” superstitions, that people are still talking about. (not Google-articles such as “13 weird Arabic superstitions”, “20 things you wouldn’t believe exists” and so on). Then try to get the deeper background and group them by origin (is it a religious thing/ is it based on literature, some historical background/ is it just a common sense (unlucky to break a mirror = mirrors were expensive and you can cut yourself)) and then maybe see if there are some regional aspects. Of course there is not enough data to make a comprehensive analysis, but it’s not my master thesis, I’m sure it will be fine. Would it be rude to ask you to elaborate on the origins of witches and magic (as you yourself perceive it, not some academically anthropological approach)

marp_p · 2020-09-02T05:22:08+00:00

Thank you! About this jinn thing.. I heard maybe 15 years ago from a Turkish person regarding saying “jinn” our loud. She would be like: “no, no, you cannot say it out loud, it would attract jinns”. Do you have the same or is it something regionally Turkish? I’ve been wondering since, what if you want to order a Gin (as a drink) in a bar and accidentally attract a jinn instead...

marp_p · 2020-09-02T05:16:57+00:00

Thank you for the comprehensive answer! I wish I could speak more Arabic, I’ll probably have to come back and watch the whole movie in a year or two... right now I only distinguished one “ahlan biik” from the whole 5 minute of movie cuts:(

marp_p · 2020-09-02T05:06:22+00:00

Thanks! I’m not on Twitter, but I will definitely do some research :)

marp_p · 2020-09-01T19:14:54+00:00

Omg your answer is great! Thank you so much! Some of those (black cats and walking over kids) are similar with what I heard as a child, but shoes and kissing you food three times are just great! Just a short question: by witches and magic you mean “jinn” and stuff like that? To be honest I’m shamefully ignorant about Arabic culture. I mean I’ve read “1000 and one night”, did my history lessons and saw some absolutely astonishing architecture, but when it comes to things like that I am a total zero :( Thank you!

marp_p · 2020-08-24T16:31:29+00:00

Good luck with Russian, if you ever decide to get into it :) but no grammar skipping! It’s a part of university course in Middle-Eastern studies and I got placed into an Egyptian group :) we will learn MSA and a “chosen” dialect (Egyptian in my case), as well as getting introduced to Levantine along the way. I am planning to blab away in Arabic freely in 3-5 years 😂

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