07-24-2008, 02:17 AM
Shlama Paul,
Thank you for your helpful response. Your suggestion for listening to liturgy is actually similar to how I started with Hebrew and not discouraging at all <!-- s
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Is this the Thackston's grammar to which you are referring?
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and Albion, thank you for saving me from what appears to be a misguided purchase. I was seriously considering getting this book. A straight transliteration of the Eastern Peshitta seems to be what I'm looking for, though evidently such a thing doesn't currently exist. At least I know now why I was having difficulty locating it.
Do you know whether the transliterations in Elias' book just do not translate properly into Eastern Aramaic, or whether they don't translate properly into any Aramaic dialect whatsoever? Hopefully he was working to at least accomplish a transliteration of a specific dialect.
Shlama in Messiah to you both,
Andrew
Thank you for your helpful response. Your suggestion for listening to liturgy is actually similar to how I started with Hebrew and not discouraging at all <!-- s
--><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s --> The combination of melody with the vocalizations greatly assists my process of language acquisition, and now I have a place to get this for the Eastern Aramaic.Is this the Thackston's grammar to which you are referring?
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.aramaicbooks.com/product_info.php?cPath=33&products_id=103">http://www.aramaicbooks.com/product_inf ... cts_id=103</a><!-- m -->
and Albion, thank you for saving me from what appears to be a misguided purchase. I was seriously considering getting this book. A straight transliteration of the Eastern Peshitta seems to be what I'm looking for, though evidently such a thing doesn't currently exist. At least I know now why I was having difficulty locating it.
Do you know whether the transliterations in Elias' book just do not translate properly into Eastern Aramaic, or whether they don't translate properly into any Aramaic dialect whatsoever? Hopefully he was working to at least accomplish a transliteration of a specific dialect.
Shlama in Messiah to you both,
Andrew