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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Genuinely considering learning farsi or arabic (mostly for the poetry and historical writings though if I'm entirely honest)

[–] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

For you or anyone serious about learning Arabic, we have a comrade here who generously offers 1-on-1 MSA lessons from a syllabus they developed. As I'm sure you know, Farsi is what is primarily spoken in Iran, but it uses the same script/lettering system as Arabic. Also MSA, the formal standard Arabic is used all across the Arabic-speaking world even where local dialects diverge drastically, making it the best choice if you want to talk people of different Arab cultures and nationalities.

@CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net I think the main reason the comrade I mentioned above doesn't do a whole class is only because not enough people have been interested in it yet. But I don't know, that may be a possibility if more people requested it. Whether it's in a class or 1-on-1, having a teacher who you are obligated to demonstrate your progress to goes a very long way in maintaining motivation and preventing procrastination excuses, at least in my experience. Regardless, if you didn't know already, we do have a language-learning comm.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I have a syrian friend who has been teaching me a bit but this is cool af. Might contact them when I sober up. Hexbear is such a cool community, I'm glad I found y'all

Me too actually wouldn't it be fun if we could make a languages learning club haha (I keep being so busy but I need to just cephalopod-up and make the time for it)

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)
[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

Even if I never learn farsi I will thoroughly enjoy this video. Thank you ❤️

If you are interested in languages as a concept you should check out NativLang on youtube!