We receive emails every single day here from people all around the world who want to learn Arabic. Believe it or not but you can accurately gauge whether or not a person is likely to succeed at learning Arabic based on their answer to the question: Why? The answer is simple but only you can answer that as it depends on the people you intend to communicate with, the part of the world you intend to travel to and the functional use that you need Arabic for.
As we say often here - nobody anywhere speaks it as a native language. One of the most common concerns for people wanting to learn Arabic is that the script or alphabet looks insanely difficult.
But let us assure you that the Arabic alphabet is surprisingly easy and straightforward. Remember too: Arabic letters share the same ancient origin as our own alphabet - Phoenician. Others are simply a matter of remembering dot placement. An abjad is a writing system where each letter is a consonant but the vowel markings are left out, leaving you the reader, to assume where they belong. This means that a word like kalb dog is written: k - l - b. Although there is no shortcut here, over time you start to recognize patterns in writing and can make accurate guesses on most words.
This 3-letter stem makes up Arabic words related somehow to writing and from it, you can derive all sorts of related vocab. By putting the letter mim M at the beginning of the word and including a long vowel on its last syllable, it becomes instrumental.
Admittedly, your learning style and choice of dialect make a big difference here e. As you can see, compared to many other languages, Arabic is grammatically simple and straightforward. French is particularly influential in the Maghrib Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. You can find a list of loanwords here.
Arabic is one of the easiest languages on earth in our opinion to find opportunities to practice. The more you practice, the faster you will learn. These steps are just the beginning. Mastering the language will require years of study, but gaining conversation skills can come quickly if you dedicate yourself to the pursuit.
Ready to dip your toes in the water? Try out a free lesson. And good luck! Arabic for Beginners: The First 6 Steps. Previous Next. For example: Arabic uses a completely new alphabet. There is almost no shared vocabulary between Arabic and Latin-based languages.
Every single word you learn is a new word. Arabic is a highly inflectional tongue. Subject, tense, and mood are communicated by how you inflect your tone. There are ten usual verb patterns, and students must memorize the conjugation and vocalization for the active and passive voices.
Plurals and their agreements with numbers are more difficult and complex than what we are used to in English. Arabic is foreign to English speakers in every sense of the word. Step 1. Decide which form of Arabic you want to learn There are many types of Arabic.
Step 2. Step 3. Learn to use the Arabic dictionary This task is not as easy as it sounds. Step 4. Polish got the number three spot on our list. Spelling and grammar are a couple of areas in which Polish can give English speakers a hard time. Words are loaded with consonants, which makes them difficult to spell and pronounce. On the bright side, Polish uses a Latin alphabet, so the letters are much more familiar to English speakers than those used in Chinese, Arabic and other non-Latin languages.
Ranking fourth on our list of hardest languages to learn, Russian uses a Cyrillic alphabet — made up of letters both familiar and unfamiliar to us. But speaker beware: some of the Cyrillic letters may look familiar but make a different sound than the Latin letter they resemble. Grammatically, Russian is not as difficult as Polish but pretty darn close.
Polish has seven cases, while Russian has six. Despite its difficulty, Russian might be worth the extra effort to learn. Turkish is an agglutinative language , which basically means prefixes and suffixes are attached to words to determine their meaning and indicate direction, rather than using separate prepositions. Turkish also features a concept English speakers may find confusing: vowel harmony , where vowels are changed or endings with vowels are added to make a word flow more smoothly.
Which of these is not like the others? Yes, we have crowned Danish as the least hard of the hardest languages to learn. If you read our article on the easiest languages , you may remember that the Germanic languages from Scandinavia largely dominated that list.
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