Rosie_0801 Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Are all resources around made using Modern Standard? Has anyone seen these? http://www.finemediagroup.com/ Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Are all resources around made using Modern Standard? I think so, but I've never actually watched this. I used to know someone who watched a show called Baba Mishmish or something. My husband bought a CD that was supposed to be Arabic songs that really consists of a lady with a very thick Egyptian accent singing, "Eet's a small warlid afterrr all, eet's a small warlid afterrr all," in a very endearing way, and lots of other English songs. I have one called "The White Cat." It's a very melodramatic cartoon about a kitten looking for its mother, escaping one disaster after the next. It goes on forever. We only suffered through one setting. I am sure someone else knows more than I. Maybe Kate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate in Arabia Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 The website you linked isn't opening for me (it's saying currently unavailable), so I don't know *exactly* what you're looking at, but we have some movies/dvds that are produced by Fine Media and they are in Modern Standard. I'll try accessing the site again later; we have several of their titles, if there is a specific one you are thinking of? I think they also produce Arabian Sinbad, which I have not used myself but I've seen it discussed on other lists I'm on... It's funny, we get a lot of Arabic cartoons here on the regular tv and dh and I generally encourage the kids to watch whatever they want. It can be a mix of dialects, although usually Modern Standard; but a couple days ago one was on and it was such a thick Egyptian accent it was startling. I'm used to hearing the Egyptian accent with dramas and such, not so much with the cartoons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted December 26, 2009 Author Share Posted December 26, 2009 Yup, it was the Sinbad I was looking at on the site. Not that it matters now, but I'm just pondering for the future. I don't suppose it would be good as new language learners to be watching Egyptian stuff if they're studying Modern Standard at school. But I don't know. Maybe it'd be good for them? Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd293 Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Rosie, How old are your kids? Someone just told me about Little Pim (www.littlepim.com). They have Arabic too, and I am considering getting the dvds to start ds3 on some fun Arabic. I know it's not what you were asking, but just thought I'd mention it! Nikki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted December 26, 2009 Author Share Posted December 26, 2009 Yes! I heard about Little Pim last week, and emailed the author and told her to let us know if she ever makes one in classically pronounced Latin, heheh. I have heard a couple of good reports about it, and will get it for the kiddies for Christmas before dd starts Arabic in grade one. I won't get it now. We've got two languages to work on now, and I'd like to leave a lengthy gap between starting Latin and Arabic. We're starting Latin in K or maybe even pre-K depending how her English and Auslan develop because dh has a thing about it :) Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Hey Rosie -- I watched 2 episodes of this. It is standard Arabic, not Egyptian. (However, there is something about cartoon Arabic that I find very hard to understand. It's very...well, high pitched and squeaky!) Anyway I wanted to let you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted February 2, 2010 Author Share Posted February 2, 2010 Thanks for letting me know! It sounds, uh, adorable? Now I just need my kids to learn English, then we can get a groove on with these other funky things. :) Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 BTW it has an English subtitles option (you can turn it on or off). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate in Arabia Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 However, there is something about cartoon Arabic that I find very hard to understand. It's very...well, high pitched and squeaky!Lol, I have the same problem, but it isn't just squeakiness, it's something about cartoon voices in general, which are usually extreme. I mean, the boys like to watch cartoons like Yu-Gi-Oh and Spider Riders, and I have a hard time understanding the villains sometimes -- it's like over-dramatic, scratchy voices or something, and they talk really really fast. So I have to ask the boys to translate for me sometimes :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 The sounds of "Sindibad 'Arabi" and friends reminded me very much of that "White Cat" movie -- but in that one, the kitten was scared and looking for its mother (for...episode after episode) so the terrified squeak was irritating but thematically appropriate. Ah well.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate in Arabia Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 They recently opened a new (the new?) Chipmunks movie in theaters here.. I shudder to think, lol... (I think it has Arabic subtitles though, not dubbed) We haven't seen it, but the kids have gotten talking toys in their Happy Meals. I think they were speaking in English, but even then we had to pass them all around and have a group discussion on what we thought they were saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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