Arabish

14 Jul, 2009  Random, Uncategorized

I just had to share this with everyone. I can type quite fast in english but I’m very slow when typing in arabic. On my mac there’s a great option to choose Arabic101 as a language and you can basically type in english and it translates the romanization to arabic.

Microsoft released MS Maren which does this for anything and is the equivelant to PinYin or Romaji. I remember wishing for something like this 8 years ago!

So if you type Salam Alaikum or Ta3al 9oub al barada, and it’ll show up in Arabic.

http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/Egypt/CMIC/Maren/

  • http://eye-kare.blogspot.com Ahmad

    lol like we need more people to lose their arabic !

    people already suck in spelling :S

    it pisses me off, guys who went to arabic schools for 12 years, still can’t spell.

    sad !

  • Kei

    lol I can spell and write, it’s my typing skills that are a bit slow :P

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