Is anyone learning Arabic?
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Is anyone learning Arabic?
I'm taking the second half of Arabic 101 next semester.. It's an interesting language, but it's definitely taking me a while to get used to. Some of the letters are just so similar and hard for me to pick apart. Oh well, even if I don't master it I'll at least have the basics down.
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Nia-chan - Posts: 362
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I was thinking about learning it...
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I've wanted to learn it but I'm sort of locked into my classes right now, and not the best linguist to boot, so its on the list of things to do still, right below German.
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I learned a smattering in my Islam class. If sticksabuser drops in, he might help you. His other first language is Arabic.
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Doubleshadow wrote:I learned a smattering in my Islam class. If sticksabuser drops in, he might help you. His other first language is Arabic.
Ok maybe I am a bit dense here,but how can a person have two first languages?I mean one has to be one's first language and the other has to be their second language.Or is that making any sense?:eyeroll:
btw:Our library has a book on learning Arabic.Then again we also have books on learning Welsh and Swahili as well.I'm still puzzled why we have a book on learning Swahili though.
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mitsuki lover - Posts: 8486
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mitsuki lover wrote:Ok maybe I am a bit dense here,but how can a person have two first languages?I mean one has to be one's first language and the other has to be their second language.Or is that making any sense?:eyeroll:
I know someone who simultaniously learned Russian and Bulgarian, as each parent would only speak in one of the languages. He is fully fluent in both and learned them at the same pace in the same time frame, so I would consider that as dual first languages.
Coincidentally, english was his third, french his fourth and german his fifth.
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mechana2015 wrote:I know someone who simultaniously learned Russian and Bulgarian, as each parent would only speak in one of the languages. He is fully fluent in both and learned them at the same pace in the same time frame, so I would consider that as dual first languages.
Coincidentally, english was his third, french his fourth and german his fifth.
That would so rock! Five languages? Wow. Is he like a professional linguist or just European?
I would like to learn Arabic. I've pretty much concluded that I should take a college course in whatever language I seriously try to learn. Since I am mostly concerned with getting through my major classes, I don't think I will do that any time soon.
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Asdvadz hedut ullah! (W. Armenian, "May God bless you!")
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Jaltus-bot - Posts: 1822
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Jaltus-bot wrote:That would so rock! Five languages? Wow. Is he like a professional linguist or just European?
I would like to learn Arabic. I've pretty much concluded that I should take a college course in whatever language I seriously try to learn. Since I am mostly concerned with getting through my major classes, I don't think I will do that any time soon.
Well on topic with this, our school DOES offer arabic.
on the topic of my friend
He's actually a physicist at Cornell U making new MRI machines, and has a lot of european connections, though he's actually been in the US longer than anywhere else.
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mitsuki lover wrote:Ok maybe I am a bit dense here,but how can a person have two first languages?I mean one has to be one's first language and the other has to be their second language.Or is that making any sense?:eyeroll:
He's from Lebanon were he was taught English and Arabic simultaneously.
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