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| Fortwenster Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4989 days ago 24 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 1 of 9 27 December 2011 at 1:08am | IP Logged |
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As I'm studying Arabic, I'm constantly wondering several thongs:
-Why do other students choose to start learning Arabic? -What do other students like about Arabic? So what brought you to studying Arabic and what do you like about it? Also, if you wnt, what do you NOTT like about it? ME: I started Arabic because I thought the script was attractive and it sounded exotic to me. I also had one Jordanian friend. I continue liking the script and the sound. I also like and diskile that its a challenging language. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Humdereel Octoglot Groupie United States Joined 4982 days ago 90 posts - 349 votes  Speaks: English, Spanish*, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written), Turkish, Persian, Urdu Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 9 27 December 2011 at 5:10pm | IP Logged |
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Well, I somehow just happened to stumble upon Arabic. Before I started studying it, I had a few Arabic-speaking friends, though it wasn't until after some time that I had decided to research it and then I noticed how beautiful its script was, in addition to how I loved its exotic sound -- it looked and sounded to me so different than English, that I was completely captivated.
I love several facets of the language. Writing is very fun to do, and I love how thrilled natives get when you speak to them in Arabic. I also love the incredible body of literature that Arabic opens you up to, from poetry by Nizar Qabbani and Abu Nuwas to stories by Zakaria Tamer, Salwa Bakr, Naguib Mahfouz, and so on. Somehow, after learning several of the dialects as well, I've also grown to like each one for different reasons, my favories being Egyptian and Levantine. I also love the enormous vocabulary. What I don't like? When I was studying it, there weren't a lot of materials for dialects, other than just the basics, so learning dialects other than Egyptian and Levantine was not as quickly paced as it would've been. Although I love the vocabulary as well, I also found myself sometimes frustrated that I had to learn so many synonyms and whatnot while reading Arabic literature. However, it was all worth it. In all, I like that it's a challenging but rewarding language. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| SmilingStraw Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4914 days ago 35 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 9 27 December 2011 at 6:04pm | IP Logged |
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I like the script and the exoticness to it. I'm not good enougho readd very well, though.
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| KSAKSA Groupie Australia Joined 5149 days ago 65 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Gulf) | Message 4 of 9 28 December 2011 at 2:26am | IP Logged |
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Since I was 16/17 I fell in love with Arabic music, then, when I was much older, I moved to the Middle East for work...and so was my opportunity to start to learn the language. I've since moved away from the ME and went through a phase where I did nothing with the language and lost a lot of it...but of course, I returned to study.
Love: how exotic the script looks (and was amazed at how quick and easy it is to learn) how what is written is what is pronounced (unlike English) I absolutely adore the 3 consonant root pattern of Arabic, it opens up the language in incredible ways. Not so in love with: grammer...it drives me nuts :) but in 2012 I'm going to learn to love grammer Frustrations the fact that beyond beginner Arabic classes are rarely run, this creates a stop/start effect in my learning Edited by KSAKSA on 28 December 2011 at 2:29am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6601 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 9 28 December 2011 at 2:42am | IP Logged |
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the most popular reasons to learn arabic
i'm not learning it but i like the script and sound, and of course if i could get it easily i'd love to read all those ancient words of wisdom<333 i bet outside this forum the most common reasons are cultural and religious. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 6 of 9 02 January 2012 at 12:28pm | IP Logged |
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Arabic was my first non-european language.
I went to a library in order to buy some book, and I have noticed a book on Arabic, so I though: 'why not?' and took it. I like the Arabic script too, especially the one in book (some other ones don't look as good). I have tried to learn it, but failed. Now I remember how to say 'the dog is big', and 'a girl is pretty', and things like this. I can say still, that it made my learning of other languages easier - borrowings from Arabic have influenced an area from Kazakhstan up to Tanzania. Examples from Uzbek: tabib = doctor kitob = book qalam = pencil mekteb = school and many more. But on the other hand it's a quite hard language to learn. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6044 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 7 of 9 06 January 2012 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
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I love the poetry but haven't been able to find many good translations so in the future I will learn Arabic to do the poets justice
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5262 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 8 of 9 07 January 2012 at 4:28am | IP Logged |
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I love the sounds and the script. I also would love to read the literature/poetry in its
original form. Another thing is the music, I think singing sounds so poetic and beautiful in Arabic. I started learning it for the above reasons and also because I know Hebrew, which is related. It helps a bit for learning Arabic, but I think it would work better the other way around. What I don't like about it...well, I like everything about it! ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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