Whats harder to learn in your opinion : Arabic or Russian?
Monday, August 9th, 2010 at
8:26 pm
I speak spanish, arabic, and english fluently and am learning russian now. I find Arabic was HARDDD with all the symbols and everything. Russian doesnt seem to bad but I'd personally say Russian is easier than Arabic.
How about you guys?
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Arabic is NOT hard! It’s all in the mind. Symbols? Did you really learn Arabic? What symbols?
It takes you a few days to be able to read the Arabic alphabet and after the first week, you may as well be learning any language – the script is a tiny barrier and it’s soon learned. Why do people keep saying it’s so hard? Most of them haven’t even tried it. I was reading from the Qur’an in my first week of it.
Even Arabic grammar is a piece of cake compared to German or Latin.
How long did you try and learn Arabic for? It’s a question of how you learn it and who teaches you.
Personally, Arabic was not hard – Russian is slightly harder, but only because I tried to teach myself. I found Mandarin was impossible on my own after a while. It’s really a question of your learning methods.
Agreed; Arabic is difficult.
Must be arabic since most all muslims do not understand or speak it and that’s very odd to me.
To me Russian looks like the letters on an eye test card and looking at Arabic makes me think that I need an eye test.
Arabic. I can’t even perfect my own language. I used to have a perfect score on English tests but lose a few points on Arabic because of the Grammar (nahw) lol
I learned Russian for some time and read about it, it is easier.
i already know arabic so russian is the harder one for me
Assuming you are starting from English or other European language, Russian is at least Indo-European. Arabic is a totally different language family.
If u speak arabic then u know that there is no symbols in arabic.I speak english,french,greek.africans,spanish,italians and english at least and I know that arabic got less words than russians & the rest is borrowed from african & all modern words are from french or english.But russians are so protective of their empire that they create new modern words in their own way.Examples in Arabic u don’t have the modern brought words as vitamins,DNA,machines,robot,laser,websites,turbo,electronic or the so millions new age words in their own vocabulary but they borrow or use it with a lil accent or flair.Whereas in Russia they create a new one like they’re proud to have their own words,So arabic is simpler.
Explanations:u use or borrow more french or other language words that u may know,understand or heard in ur arabic than Russian language that is by itself multiplying daily instead of using others.This doesn’t mean the russian are using other lexis but it so minimal.In arabic u say pilot for pilot & it’s understandable in modern Arabic unles u wanna go with the chauffeur of the "tiara".Look at the Russians now.They called astronauts cosmonots because they don’t wanna agree with plain American ideas that it’s got to do with the stars.
I may not have all the examples right but basically it is what it is.Arabs got they language before there was Russia but because of their religion & capability to develop in science or other way,they just don’t care to compare themselves to others or to sit & think of a new word for the new Avatar planets diet food name.They just use what the scientists come up with since they don’t use it why bother.
If,say a new chemical we started importing from mars & use in our car is called "boo boo",the arabs will accept it as it is when the russians go for "bee bee" to make it their own & not to agree with rest of the world.
Arabic is not hard, it’s just too much different if you are coming from an European background and a native of some Germanic or Latin language. However, I must say it’s a bit of complex if compared to these languages since I didn’t find any problem learning English, Italian or Spanish for example.
Arabic just need patience and commitment as it takes you longer to learn if compared to other popular languages due to it’s richness (same words and grammar still being used since more than 2,000 years).
Arabic.
That is, if you’re comparing learning Arabic as a whole with Russian. If you were comparing, say, becoming proficient at speaking one Arabic dialect, like Syrian, with Russian, then Russian may well take longer, but I’m just making a wild guess here.
If you already speak an Indo-European language then Russian is going to be easier on many levels. But both are challenging languages.
The Russian alphabet looks to me much more straightforward than Arabic.
I can’t speak about Russian dialects, but I’d imagine that a huge advantage of Russian is that it’s "centralised", i.e. even if there are dozens of Russian dialects, you can simply learn Moscow dialect and get away with it wherever people speak Russian. Same for English. This isn’t the case for Arabic, since there isn’t a "capital city" of the entire Arab world, and the closest thing to the "Queen’s English" is MSA, which almost noone actually speaks as a natural language, so it’s not very useful if you want to practise speaking and listening to real people.
Also a huge difficulty (one of the main ones) in learning Arabic is the co-existence of formal Standard Arabic for writing with all the spoken dialects. No doubt literary Russian is quite different from the Russian on the streets, but I’d guess it’s nowhere near as different as MSA vs Arabic dialects.