Learn Arabic--the language of Peace

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I am a Christian, and would like to share my opinion that Christians should also be learning Arabic.

I saw a video (which I cannot find now) of a man who took studying Arabic very seriously and said “Ilhamdullilah, please teach your children Arabic, it is the language of peace.”

A few years ago, I really enjoyed learning Arabic with this Christian Palestinian woman, called Maha.

She has become a media sensation where she now lives, in Italy. She is very talented in learning languages.

She also gives high quality Hebrew lessons, too.

Here is a video:

 
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Arabic is a good language to learn simply because it is spoken in many different countries. English is now the international language, and is used as the business language in the Middle East where many workers are imported. Much of the Middle East, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia, speaks Arabic.
Writing Arabic is difficult. If is challenging to tell where one letter starts and the next begins. There are some sounds that English speakers have difficulty with, and some English sounds that Arabic speakers have difficulty with. There is no P in Arabic. The sound made is somewhere between a B and a P.
 
Thanks!
I like languages and I learnt a bit of Arabic and now Hebrew myself online. Another resource I can use. Shukran!!
I love how beautiful that the Semitic languages have the tri-consonantal root system.
 
DebCWil said:
Writing Arabic is difficult. If is challenging to tell where one letter starts and the next begins.
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Interestingly I don’t find this at all. There are more letters to learn yes and each letter has more than one form but once you do it is quite easy to tell which letter is which. What I find hard when I read is the font is always so small! If it’s bigger then I have no problems!

But Hebrew, although i find the letters are easier to learn, some letters look quite similar and I got myself mixed up initially for a while before I got used to it now.
 
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And why not Turkish?
At least after Arabic , you can start studying Turkish.🤣
Almost 20 million people live in Istanbul (Constantinople) according to unofficial data.
Istanbul’s GDP exceeds the GDP of several countries combined.
A huge number of entrepreneurial initiatives are taking place in Turkey. Turkey is a “European China” 😊
 
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In the Turkish dictionary-a lot of Arabic and French words( almost 5000 French words) and not a few words from the English language.
Therefore, if you could afford to learn Arabic - proceed to the study of Turkish.😊
 
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It seems that Arabic was immediately employed for the Vatican web site to translate the Ash Wednesday homily. In fact the homily, was there alone with the Italian.
 
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if you could afford to learn Arabic - proceed to the study of Turkish.
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I’m not sure about this.
Turkish is indo European and Arabic is Semitic.
It’s a lot easier learning Hebrew after Arabic (vice versa) as they are both Semitic languages.
 
In fact 10% of Spanish vocab comes from Arabic. This proportion seems higher than Turkish. So one could argue learning Spanish before Turkish.
 
No, learn Latin, Greek, or Hebrew (and Aramaic if that’s possible) since these are the languages that are apart of our faith. Arabic isn’t.
 
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Too difficult!!

(Most Americans can’t even speak proper English.)
jk

hehehe
 
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