GLOSSy Levantine Arabic phrases with audio SUBS2SRS

Holy shit this took fucking forever. But anyway it's done now and yeah it's pretty great. What we have here is 589 or so phrases from the DLIFLC's GLOSS program for Levantine Arabic. Mostly Syrian. Full of American propaganda. Whatever though, it's pretty great, covering topics from the civil war, domestic violence, media, business, terrorism, technology, and the importance of fiber in your diet. I tried to keep them under 10 seconds long, but yeah, some of them are much longer. Some of them are also of very low quality. Some of them are actually in MSA, and some are in a strange mix of MSA and colloquial. Sometimes, the person is speaking too slowly or too quickly. There are a lot of spelling irregularities, but that's fairly standard when dealing with dialect. There are a few mistranslations, or a few imprecise translations, some of which I fixed, others of which I left alone. How did I come up with this? - downloaded all of the downloadable lesson thingies from the GLOSS website - chose about 30 or so lessons from a wide range of topics, tending to prefer more natural or faster sounding speakers - wrote out the Arabic into a .txt file manually, because those PDFs are a nightmare to copy and paste from - created Arabic subtitle files for all of them - opened them in Audacity to get the timing right, and just plugged it all manually - copy and pasted the English from the PDFs into an alternate English subtitle file - plugged it all into the SUBS2SRS program - and yeah now I've got this thing pretty cool huh So this thing here is pretty good for learning vocabulary, getting used to grammar, and most importantly, getting used to the sound and rhythm of Arabic. I recommend it for intermediate learners who already have a grasp of the grammar and some half-decent vocabulary. What I've been thinking though, what with these GLOSS things (and the CultureTalk videos and transcripts) being available for so many years, how has nobody else done this yet? Idunno but anyway now we have one for the Levant section. انشالله this inspires others to do more of these things with other dialects, or even other languages. Presumably the use of GLOSS materials here is covered by fair use or creative commons. Anyway blahblahblah enjoy