Here is the thing…..you know how sometimes you run across an old class website from some DOT—>edu, that looked really promising in the search results pages but low and behold…..you get there and 
( all the links on the site are dead, broken, useless!!! Well, don’t lose all hope…..because sometimes…..just sometimes—the “Internet Wayback Machine” aka The Internet Archive comes to the rescue……check it out sometime it may just come in handy for like it has for me!!!
Ok…..now i’ll get right to it……i’ve been working on one of those Google Custom Search Engines for a number of topics in Arabic….however they don’t work as well as I hoped thanks to Big Brother (aka Scrooge MacGOOG). Any way……tell me if you like the the type of content that you find in this post and I’ll add more like it in the future?
I didn’t find Google very helpful for finding a lot of the Content I was looking for……so I had to branch out a lil…… MetaCrawler Video Search: keywords: Arabic Site:edu. I had a problem though…..i hate it when awesome educational material once available to ALL…….get stashed behind some password protected Intellectual Fort Knox…..and that is where The Internet Archive comes in:-)
The following is an example of a broken link……hiding on the Wayback Machine: Wisconsin’s Al-Kitaab Materials (oldies but goodies)
Here is more Al-Kitaab….and if you ever find that this link goes bad……it is prolly on the Way Back Machine too (just like the one above)!
Don’t forget the three links in the post preceding this one:)
Those two (along with all the ones i’m not listing from MetaCrawler whose links do work) will have do for now…..i’m a bit tired…….i’ll have more if people like this type of thing….otherwise…..i dunno…Enjoy!!!
P.S. ~ If you didn’t take my word for it before…….ima ganna say it again…..the best thing you’ll ever do for your Arabic……is read the paper EVERYDAY…..using noneother than the Assistance of Google’s URL MACHINE TRANSLATION TOOL (not the copy past tool, full page html translation is the only one that works you’ll understand why if you take the trouble to use it)
till next time…..masalama
A more recent and more comprehensive version of my article on how to do all things Arabic on a PC is available in PDF from: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/Multilingual_Computing_with_Arabic_and_Arabic_Transliteration.pdf
Also, a PowerPoint of my article with screen-shots is also available from: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/multilingual_computing_arabic.ppt
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Comment by otidzmkby gjtqorh — May 31, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
them Al-Kitaab links were great. obviously, the point is that i’d love it if you had more of this kind of stuff.
read-the-paper-everyday method might be good for those who want to learn to read and understand, but it can be murderous for a beginner’s pronounciation. no little vowel marks = “made up” voweling = a pronounciation noone understands.
a solution might be http://gloss.lingnet.org/searchResources.aspx – their arabic article collection could be processed through the machine translation tool, and then it would be safe to use.
oh, how i wish there was a pop-up dictionary with both pronounciation and translation available for arabic too…
Comment by zozo — June 1, 2007 @ 9:52 am