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- "لَيْسَ هُناك لُغة صَعْبة."
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Nah , you'll make it ;)
Funny , coming out of a person who's studying Chinese.
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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.
Same, from Arabic to English to Hebrew, actually Arabic and Hebrew are very similar. יאללה מי פה עוד ישראלי?
I beg to disagree! Arabic is easy for me because I'm a Hebrew native speaker, but I'm studying Czech for 4 years now (in real life as well), and since the Slavic language logic is foreign to me, it's soooo difficult!
Well, I am native Czech and many locals cannot speak and write the language properly. That says something :D
Arabic must be really easy for you because they are in the same language family with Hebrew. In Slavic languages even the word order is come across as complex sometimes...
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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.
I am also a Hebrew native speaker, but the app is in English. So for a lot of sentences i have to translate them in my head from english to Arabic so I have the correct words ans then from Arabic to english to Hebrew to make sure i have the correct grammar and word order
Finally you don't hurt me Duo
But you're hurting me when I see this is ironically :)
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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.
Well at least you get to learn a lot of stuff once you are able to conjugate suffixes. + There is no grammatical gender in Turkish and the syntax order is relatively free:) but i can imagine it being so challenging for others. Good luck!
I don't say Arabic is difficult but even my Arabic teacher said "Learning Arabic is equal to learn 3 random languages" :D
I'm a native urdu speaker so arabic isn't that difficult for me. But studying it in English makes it harder. Plus duolingo forces me to learn the alphabet but i already know that it's so frustrating
Try to learn the Czech. One of the most difficult languages in the universe
