Arabic Language and Culture

Opinion 1

Yes. I mean I'm Arabic and find it a hard language because of pronunciation and the grammar is so hard to learn, too. I am still not good at it. It's better to learn it from childhood but if you want to learn then it won't be so hard. Just don't expect to learn it in a month!

Opinion 2

I have been learning Arabic for five months now, and yes it is hard , like any new foreign language any one will start with. But there is a lot of people who are fluent in Arabic and they didn't learn from the beginning of their life. In six months you can be good, and grammar is difficult in all languages. You can start with the alphabet and everything will go smoothly if you just focus. You can also visit some website. You can find a link to one of them in the Related Links. This is the site where you can learn Arabic online and live through video interactive classes with native Arabic teachers who are available in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, any time you like. You should try it, they have three days free trial.

Opinion 3

I'm just went to telling you like i' learn English you can learn Arabic is rigt Arabic is the most hard languege in the world

Opinion 4

The difficulty of learning a language is based on two general criteria.

1) Inherent Difficulty of the Language: This is how complex the grammar, spelling, diction, and language composition are. (Japanese is much more grammatically simple than Russian, for example since it does not have cases, genders, or compound tenses.)

2) Distance from Languages known: This is how similar or different the words and grammar of the target language are from the speaker's native or previously acquire languages. (It is easier to learn Hebrew if your native language is Arabic than if it is German all else equal because Hebrew shares quite a bit of vocabulary and grammar with Arabic and almost none with German.)

As concerns Arabic: 1) Grammar is very complex, there are declensions, verb conjugations and moods for over 13 different personages, the relationship between roots and word-paradigms, and numerous other issues. In the case of numbers, even fluent Arabic speakers will revert to their native dialects or to foreign languages to avoid the complexity. However, these combinations are consistent and can be learned almost mathematically. 2) Considering that you already speak English (assumed since you submitted this question in English) and no other language can be assumed, Arabic will also be a challenge as concerns vocabulary. Unlike many languages that adopted numerous English words because of modernity, Arabic has merely re-purposed old words and roots to create words like haatef (هاتف) for telephone or qetaar (قطار) for train. Additionally, as you may have noticed, Arabic has its own alphabet which does not represent all vowels (haatef was written hatf and qetaar was written qtar) and has sounds lacking in English such as the "q" or "t" in qetaar which are harder that the "k" and "t" sounds in English.

Therefore, all else being equal Arabic should be one of the more difficult languages for you to learn.

"One who abstains" or "One who weans (children)" are offered as possible meanings of the Arabic name Fatima.

Specifically, the Arabic name is a feminine proper noun. It is written as فاطمة ‎(Fāṭimah)in Arabic. The pronunciation will be "faht-mah" in colloquial Arabic.

Classical Arabic has twenty-eight characters in its alphabet, which is two more than the English. Many phrases cannot be translated due to this seemingly small difference.

Arabic starts from Right side of the page unlike English that starts from the left. Arabic is an ancient language and has vast vacabolary. For any one word, you'll find tens of different substitute words.

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Generally speaking, Arabic-based languages all devolve from Proto-Semitic roots. English, fundamentally, has Arayan, Proto-Saxon, Old Germanic, Romance roots. There is a large asterisk, however, since both groups were strong and prolific traders, and happily adapted influences from all their customers, customers' customers, ad infinitum.
The alphabet, letters and way of reading are also quite different from ones English language. Arabic is read and written from right to left unlike the Latin alphabets (English) which are read and written from left to right. And of course the scripts of both languages are very different. English has both capital and lower case letters. Whereas in Arabic the primary distinction in writing the letters are when the letters are connected in script. There are no lower or upper case letters in Arabic. Ahmad