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- proper noun Modern Standard Arabic (
MSA ) is the standard and literary variety ofArabic used in writing and in formal speech in the Arab world.
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Facebook developers built a mechanism to detect the gender of the user and select the translation that matches it and used Modern Standard Arabic, which is used in the media and other formal and religious circles.
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Facebook developers built a mechanism to detect the gender of the user and select the translation that matches it and used Modern Standard Arabic, which is used in the media and other formal and religious circles.
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As difficult as it is to learn, Modern Standard Arabic -- taught on most American campuses -- sounds little like the dialects spoken across the Arab world.
Hot Subject 2007
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What's more, Mickey and friends have abandoned their old, colloquial Egyptian conversations in favor of Modern Standard Arabic dialogue.
unknown title 2009
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Most Moroccan and speak and understand their own dialect and Modern Standard Arabic.
Izzy Mo's Blog 2009
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Most Moroccan and speak and understand their own dialect and Modern Standard Arabic.
Izzy Mo's Blog 2009
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Most Moroccan and speak and understand their own dialect and Modern Standard Arabic.
Izzy Mo's Blog 2009
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Most Moroccan and speak and understand their own dialect and Modern Standard Arabic.
Izzy Mo's Blog 2009
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Some are practical -- native Arabic speakers pick up the dialect at home and study Modern Standard Arabic in school, and carry that tradition to the North American classroom.
The Cranky Professor 2008
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