Just finished the initial Arabic intro to yellow belt. Now at stage of decision to sign up for the whole course, which is £15 per month, maybe I will stop my OAP gym membership and just walk along the Taff Trail:disguised_face:
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So the course is very good way to learn. I like the fact that the Arabic script appears with the male voice. I’ve learnt to read Arabic and this has the tashkeel (vowels), very beneficial for non native learning and especially good for my 64 year old brain.
So I’m really thinking about this. The only “jitters” for me is the Arabic is more MSA which is generally used on the news, politics etc.
My Lebanese wife and Egyptian friend just replied when I let them listen. “We just don’t speak Arabic this way” The Lebanese/Egyptian dialect is much softer.
I might just wait until maybe some dialects become available. It’s a dilemma for me!
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Just seen this! Yay! But need to get Greek, Irish, and Portuguese under control (and stop inserting phonologically-plausible Cymricisms into the Greek) or it’s all going to go pear-shaped. I have dipped my toe in, but I shall be strong.
For now…
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We will definitely be adding more variations, so I think it might be a good idea to wait a bit - we’ve just had a shot at Quebecois French, for example, which I’m really excited about - so no reason for us not to crack on with Lebanese and Egyptian as well 
@RichardBuck yeah, it doesn’t really help avoid distraction, does it?! 
I think first draft Estonian should be up there now as well
Amazing! 
