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[quote=GUESTCHRIS,374349]This is a couple of years late but I studied Arabic for about 11 years and finally screamed, "I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!" So, I quit. I have had very limited success and I used some Arabic when I went to Israel in May of 2007. However, I felt that the payoff for what I put into it was just not worth the effort it was taking. I intend to spend a few months in Jordan when I retire and learn all I can by total immersion. I told someone that I had studied for a long time and hardly knew the language at all. She said, "Is that because it's so hard to pronounce?" I said, "I didn't say I couldn't pronounce it!" There are a few difficult sounds in Arabic but that has nothing to do with it. Someone else says, "Is that because they write backwards?" "First of all you don't write 'backwards' in Arabic. Arabic is a Semitic language and so is Hebrew, and all Semitic languages are written from right to left. The Greek alphabet, which spawned the Roman alphabet from which we get ours was derived from Hebrew. They originally wrote one line from right to left, the next left to right, and so on. Then they thought, "This is silly, we should make it all one way" which ended up being left to right. So, if anyone is writing backwards it's us because we changed it. And no, it is not difficult at all. So what is difficult about Arabic? The very complicated verb conjugations, the different types of plurals, writing with no short vowels indicated in the script most of the time, the unfamiliar vocabulary, etc. etc.[/quote]
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