Amos - 10-15-2012 at 11:18 AM
Ahlan everyone,
I have been working pretty hard on learning Arabic recently. Since I spent this summer at Middlebury Arabic Language School and last summer studying
in Morocco. I am doing pretty well with speaking and grammar but as we all know the lyrics found in older Arabic music and in poetry is often quite
different that spoken Arabic. I am attaching a quick recording I just made of me reading one of my favorite Mahmoud Darwish poems "Ala Hadhihi al
Ardh" (On This Land) to ask for any feedback from Arabic speakers on this forum. Thank you for any help!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVJdefw-TBo&feature=youtu.be
Khalid_Salé - 10-15-2012 at 12:52 PM
Very nice pronunciation, the heavy sads, dads, ta's ha's and so on are very good already and will get better with practise (in sha Allah!). Just
remember to connect the hamzat al-wasl properly, so it's:
'ala hadhihil-ard,
not
'ala hadhihi-al-ard
(cut out the 'a' of the 'al-'.) This is the rule for both Classical and Colloquial. Well done and حظ سعيد!
amna.al.hawaj - 10-15-2012 at 10:21 PM
Not bad 
Don't forget to work on your letter ح
I love this poem! Beautiful choice
new link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idt0ClvR-xY&feature=youtu.be
Amos - 10-17-2012 at 07:59 PM
Thank you guys for your feedback, here is a new link for anyone else that might have some input. I would really like to know what you think. Thank
you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idt0ClvR-xY&feature=youtu.be
rex2009 - 10-17-2012 at 10:08 PM
Amos I am really impressed. 
your pronunciation is very good. Keep it
going. I wish my son- who is arabic- has similar interest.
Amos - 10-18-2012 at 06:20 AM
Shukran rex2009!
أظن أن اللغة العربية
أحسن لأستخدم في الأغنيات
و قصائد و عندما أترجم
كلمات من اللغة العربية
إلى لغات أخر أنا لا أشعر
نفس المعنى. إن شاء الله في
مستقبل أنا ستعلم أكثر من
هذه لغة الجميلة.