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- "لَيْسَ هُناك لُغة صَعْبة."
36 Comments
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Mandarin and Arabic, to an English speaker, are probably of roughly equivalent difficulty, albeit in completely different ways.
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I think Chinese is simpler to manage as a beginner, while slightly harder to deepen than Arabic.
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My mother tongue is the most difficult one! -- at least, I should use three different languages in this course.
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Im learning arabic from english and my language is spanish. My brain transform the arabic noun-adjective into english adjective-noun. Then it turn into spanish noun-adjective just to turn into english adjective-noun, and that's the final answer.
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I'm learning it from English, too, but my native language is German. So I have to switch from one difficult and complex grammar to another :D
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I know. Just when you think you understand the structure it changes. Conjugation is starting to make sense. This gender thing though I think is not really necessary.
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You have a benefit as both read backwards. :) I wonder who decided and when to change sentence direction. The Slavic languages are such tongue twisters.
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I'll give you that. Lived in Turkey for a year and a half in the early 70's. It seems the words have gotten longer. Why change the last letter of a noun to another still makes no sense. Can understand very basic. Arabic has become easier as I can read it pretty well. Can't always give the proper response but usually get the gist of what is being said.