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Lebanese or Farsi?
Saturday, 11-Mar-17 21:52:32 UTC from web-
@rarity the debate I'm having is which to learn or in the latter's case, continue to learn.
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@awl well Arabic is a useful language, but I'd imagine learning a specific region's dialect of it might be difficult since it's a standardized language. I don't know much about Farsi so I couldn't give much input in that regard
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@rarity it's standardised for learning yes. However from what I understand the regional 'dialects' are more like separate languages, as mutually unintelligible with others.
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@awl I meant that I'd be concerned about a lack of learning resources specific the the Lebanese dialect. Can I ask why Lebanese over another type of Arabic?
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@rarity you know what, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe to talk with the cooks at my favourite Greek/middle Eastern restaurant? Also we might have more people from there than say, Morocco or Egypt.
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@rarity yeah. I don't think I'd be using conversationalist Farsi would be easy here.
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@mcscx i heard that a long time ago as well. I haven't thought much about language in general for a good while.
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@mcscx I had started learning Farsi because of heavy interest of ancient Central Asia.
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