Just testing something.

[jmfargo]

احلن وصحلن. كيف الحلك؟

No idea whether or not this is going to work properly, just testing something. My spelling is horrible, I know.

Edit: Oh, for the record, all that says is "Hi. How are you?"

Comments

[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

Tss, your spelling's not so bad. And trust me, you do not want to try making lj right-align. It's just painful.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

I could have looked up the proper spelling, but according to Khalil (my teacher) the Arabic language is 100% phonetic. I call BS on that after trying to transcribe it.

[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

My teacher told us right off the bat that there was no way to transcribe Arabic into English, and he went so far as to have us marker over the transliterations in our textbooks. The more I read of it, the more I think he was right to do so.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

Well, what I mean is, he claims that transcribing Arabic in Arabic is easy because (he says) it's 100% phonetic once you know their alphabet. (الف با). I say that for a non-native speaker, there are letters that are probably always going to be almost impossible to differentiate between in common speech.