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| ozeri Newbie Israel Joined 5373 days ago 4 posts - 18 votes Studies: English | Message 1 of 11 31 August 2010 at 6:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here is an article I just read,that I found interesting. Curious to hear forum members opinions about it. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/New s.aspx/139419 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 4847 days ago 3971 posts - 7746 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 11 31 August 2010 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's not what I'd consider breakthrough information. It only states that the Arabic alphabet is harder to learn than the Hebrew alphabet (for children). It's a good thing they didn't look at Chinese and Japanese...
Of course, learning the alphabet is only a very, very minor part of learning a language, so it doesn't necessarily make Arabic harder to learn than Hebrew. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4786 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 3 of 11 31 August 2010 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
IMHO, learning to read Arabic is no more complicated than learning a non-Latin alphabet, for example Cyrillic. (After all Arabic has only 28 letters.) Learning to read Arabic is the least of the problems that most Arabic learners face. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 5695 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 4 of 11 31 August 2010 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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In college we learned the entire Arabic alphabet in about 2 hours! It really wasn't difficult at all!
The real reasons Arabic is difficult can be found here: Why Arabic Is Difficult. It is an article by Karin C. Ryding, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic at the Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies in Georgetown! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6116 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto | Message 5 of 11 31 August 2010 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | ||
I was going to say this exact same thing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5232 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 6 of 11 01 September 2010 at 3:58am | IP Logged | ||
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And here I thought it was the diglossia situation.
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| ANK47 Triglot Senior Member United States thearabicstudent.blo Joined 6563 days ago 188 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (classical) | Message 7 of 11 01 September 2010 at 5:44am | IP Logged | ||
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I agree that the alphabet is not very hard. Arabic is difficult because it has no relation to English and thus the words are hard to remember. Another major difficulty in learning Arabic is the pronunciation. There are so many sounds that are not found in English and that are almost impossible to reproduce like a native. And let's not forget that if you really want to know Arabic and understand what people are saying in real life you have to delve into the dialects. I'd say learning MSA and a few closely related dialects (say Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian, and Egyptian) is really like learning 2 languages.
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| Grammatiker Diglot Newbie United States jabbernut.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4676 days ago 17 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Armenian, French, Arabic (classical), Esperanto | Message 8 of 11 01 September 2010 at 8:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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The thing I find very helpful and fascinating about the Perso-Arabic writing system is
that words have a "shape" that characterizes them more than they do in an isolated- character script like the Roman alphabet we use. Edited by Grammatiker on 01 September 2010 at 8:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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