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Foreign Language Learning Software for Arabic?

Doc Squidly asks: "In the near future I will be spending a year in the Middle East and feel it would be in my best interest to learn Arabic. Unfortunately I do not have the time to enroll in a college class and have decided that a computer base earning method would suit my situation best. I've looked at products such as ArabicNow! V9 Deluxe and Rosetta Stone Arabic but have not been able to find reviews on these or any other products. English is my first language and was fluent in German and Latin but, haven't used them in many years. I believe that having the right tools can make a difference in learning Arabic. Any advise from multi-lingual Slashdot readers would be helpful. Has anyone ever used software to learn a foreign language?"

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  1. US Troop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A year in the Middle East huh? Would that be a year killing innocent children and torturing innocent Iraqi's.

  2. tsarkon reports Slashdot Pro Arab Eurabian Traitor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is disgusting. Slashdot and its vile denizens have showhn time and time again contempt of all western culture and progress, while worshipping technology and using technology that none of the Arab overlords they worship as cuddle ever helped to created. Islam brought the death of innovation to the middle east, and now Eurabian and Kerry supporters are doing the same thing. Self deprecating in a fatal performance for people who really dont give a fuck, they will never not give a fuck and your dangerous fast and loose ways (As Moore calls the "facts" in his new film) will be the end of us all. You Murderers. You Soros loving world government murderers of technology, freedom and innovation. You want to learn arabic? Huh fuckers? Join the military or NSA or CIA and get paid to hunt down arab dogs or fucking go live in the pit of fukcing hell you worship and learn it there, fuckers! FUCK YOU TRAITORS TO THE WEST! Western white men pretty much invented everything, go look at any university, at all the dead professors, at all the patents granted, everything, 90+% of IT ALL is Western WHITE MEN. So you fucking deconstructionist scum, fuck you. Fuck Arabic. Fuck Islam and DIE traitors, die.

  3. Re:Another approach... tsarkon reports by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    As long as they don't suspect you of working for the CIA....

    They do need to hide from teh CIA because all arab speaking people are supporting a murdering Islam and a murdering culture and they would have nothing to fear from the CIA unless they are in fact the murderers I know them to be.

    Death to you, death to those who destroy us all! You want to see a Jihad, wait till I blow my top, fuckers, and Ill nail people who matter and not innocent women and children, ill kill your leaders!

    Mac communist prick, proArab proIslam = proMac. death to you and your scum!

  4. Re:Rosetta Stone is awesome tsarkon reports by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    When did Islam start?

    It started when an illiterate pedophile camel trader started doing the
    Middle Eastern equivalent of "speaking in tongues." Later, scribes
    wrote down what somebody said that somebody else heard that the
    pedophile said.

    Later on, the pedophile's followers decided that they were peaceful
    and tolerant, and to prove that, they oppressed their own followers,
    and the started wars with everybody who didn't, or doesn't follow
    their faith.

    Almost all Muslim men are gay, but they amuse themselves anyway by
    seeing that stone walls fall on allegedly gay men, after which they
    drive Soviet-made tanks back and forth over them several times, to the
    amusement of the crowd. Despite the fact that Muslim men are all gay,
    they nevertheless reproduce like cockroaches.

    They also love the beat the crap out of women who dare to drive
    automobiles.

    Islam is a beautiful religion that demands that all artistic
    depictions of the human form be destroyed. Likewise, for some reason,
    for black dogs, for who knows what reason.

    No Islamic country in the history of the world has been democratic.
    Muslims are annoyed to no end that not every country is Islamic.
    They're like Mormons, or Seventh-day Adventists, except they have
    AK-47's, and to my knowledge, no Mormon or Seventh-day Adventist has
    ever been a suicide bomber, although David Koresh came close.

    The question shouldn't be "When did Islam start?" -- it should be,
    "How many months is it going to take before Islam is THE mandated
    religion of the one state of all the world.

  5. Re:Rosetta Stone is awesome tsarkon reports by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Koresh was a freedom fighter and civil rights activist when martyred by Janet Death's Head Gestapo Einsatgruppen Reno. Death to Reno, deaht to Ashcroft!