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What Persian shares
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William Camden
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31 October 2007 at 2:59am | IP Logged

Farsi is often thought to be the easiest Middle Eastern language to learn for most Europeans. It is certainly Indo-European. I have never tried to learn it so can't comment on its ease or difficulty.
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03 November 2007 at 7:26pm | IP Logged

@ 24karrot:

Ah. :)

Edited by arsene on 03 November 2007 at 7:26pm
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04 May 2008 at 2:36pm | IP Logged

Karakorum wrote:

Yeah but Persian also drops the distinctions between many of the Semitic sounds of Arabic:

Ayn and Aleph
Zaa' Zayn, and Dhal
Taa' and taa'
hamza
Haa and heh
qaf
(ghayn?)

Also depending on what kind of Arabic you are talking about, all these sounds are found in Arabic, in most countries letters have been added to accomodate well established loanwords.

Having some Arabic vocabulary and some Hindi, I thought Persian would be easy. Wrong. My worst problem was remembering the two sometimes very different roots for verbs. No vowels in writing wasn't as difficult as I had imagined, but for comparisons, the non-distinctions mentioned in the above quote were distracting.

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