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Ahmad juwayni's avatar

Muslims in the subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, West Africa, Somalia and Ethiopia as well as other non Arab countries have historically been learning Arabic in their traditional seminaries, producing scholars whose native langauge is not Arabic who can write books in Arabic... Nadwatul Ulama in Luckow India is a case in point as well as the amazing speakers of Arabic from Ethiopia, Somali and West africa ... the modern Arab educationalists need to explore all these approaches also and not just confine themselves to European language focused methods discussed in second language acquisition textbooks....

Also students should be forced to speak MSA after a certain stage in schools, with penalties for not... there are institutions in Pakistan and West Africa i am aware of who implemented a financial penalty approach (whoever speaks other than Faseeh Arabic has to pay an X fine) and produced good results...

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Antoine Dusséaux's avatar

Found this: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/between-modern-standard-arabic-egyptian-disney-lost-eman-abdo

Looks like Disney is back to Egyptian Arabic. Can other cartoons follow?

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