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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5179 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 9 of 11 21 December 2010 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, I though so.
It's just in my book they wrote something like this. That would be interesting, if the number of Muslims is one Billion, that would make Arabic one of the most knows languages in the world (more than now). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 10 of 11 21 December 2010 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
There are only about 225 million speaking Arabic as a first language, officially, but the word Arabic is just about as meaningful as the term "Chinese", so.... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| global_gizzy Senior Member United States maxcollege.blogspot. Joined 5704 days ago 275 posts - 310 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 11 21 December 2010 at 1:48am | IP Logged | ||
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I am an American Muslim and will chime in.
The norm in my Islamic Community ( a real cultural melting-pot with about 500 people from about 50-60 different countries/states/origins) is thus: Many-Most of the youth learn to read Quranic-Arabic at some point. We dont necessarily read it well, but we learn to read it. My understanding is that even in many Muslim countries, there are 2 types of "real" Arabic. (not counting the dialects) Quranic-Arabic and Standard-Arabic. Standard Arabic is typically said to be the language of media and instruction. Quranic ARabic is studied at some point in School and learned well by those who live and grow and attend schools in those countries. My father is a convert and when he converted he learned to read, write, speak and understand both "real" types of Arabic. Quranic and Standard. I have memorized about 20 of the Quranic Chapters, in Arabic. I did it by reading and repeating Arabic script and later Transliterated Arabic-Script. I know the Quranic stories because I was taught them in my parents lap growing up, but when I am reciting the Quranic Chapters I do not know, word for word, or even line for line, what I'm saying. I have an idea what the chapter is about, but when the chapter is 40+ verses, I have no idea of the specifics. (I got lazy sometime around 10 years of age and stopped studying them in English and Arabic, even though my parents begged me to learn the meaning. *sigh*.)4 of my brothers (25, 14, 12, and 10) are studying and learning in schools in Muslim Countries right now. The younger boys have picked up the Arabic Dialect, Quranic Arabic and the Quran. If you mention a verse in English, they can recite, from memory or through translation the corresponding Arabic verse and vice versa. I never studied as intensely or as long as them though. Hopefully I'll start sometime in 2011. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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