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| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5676 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes  Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 25 of 53 13 October 2009 at 4:36am | IP Logged | |||||
To this day, I can't produce the Arabic script by hand. While I am literate, I can't reproduce the script in a legible manner. Edited by Paskwc on 13 October 2009 at 8:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| YoshiYoshi Senior Member China Joined 5530 days ago 143 posts - 205 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 26 of 53 13 October 2009 at 6:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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The majority of learners just said why/how Arabic is difficult for English speakers to learn, actually it's difficult not only for occidentals, but also for the Chinese (the grammar, the spelling, & the identification, but the pronunciation isn't that hard, at least, for me), together with the Japanese & the Koreans. To my surprise, I've even heard a Persian say that Arabic is an awesome language, though Persian/Farsi uses the Arabic alphabet as well and shares plenty of loanwords with Arabic, maybe both Urdu and Turkish (though it uses Latin alphabet) are, to some extent, in the same situation as Persian/Farsi is, if I guess correctly.
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| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5676 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 27 of 53 13 October 2009 at 8:02am | IP Logged | |||||
Urdu uses Arabic script. Turkish used to, but there was a shift towards the Latin alphabet in 1928. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5810 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 28 of 53 13 October 2009 at 9:09am | IP Logged | |||||
That's a strange problem. Do you have any idea why, or is it just a sort of mental block? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ulrike Tetraglot Newbie Germany Joined 5560 days ago 23 posts - 27 votes Speaks: German*, Latin, English, French Studies: Persian, Arabic (classical) | Message 29 of 53 13 October 2009 at 11:07am | IP Logged | |||||
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I use a special pen made for calligraphy. Its use made my Arabic writing much more legible and much more beautiful than the use of an ordinary pen. Perhaps a change of writing instrument might help you.
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6271 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 30 of 53 14 October 2009 at 1:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Knowledge of Turkish gives some marginal help with Arabic, as there are many Arabic loanwords in Turkish, though not as many as in Ottoman times.
I prefer writing Arabic script with the Pilot V-pen, an inexpensive, disposable fountain pen. It just flows nicely. I am left-handed and right-to-left scripts offer advantages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Minlawc Newbie United States Joined 6531 days ago 24 posts - 56 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 31 of 53 14 October 2009 at 3:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Here's a question, a bit off topic. Is Arabic easier for Spanish speakers?
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| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5898 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 32 of 53 14 October 2009 at 4:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
There are some Spanish words lent from Arabic, but I don't think it'd make much of a difference when learning the latter. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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