Arabic - A Language of the Future

[Sargon of Akkad]

Good, but those countries should have imposed at least some " obligatory" lesson for any working expat
Like many "western" countries...

Imposing not but encouraging as those people (non-Arab expats) are residents, often temporary, and not citizens. In the West, for now at least, the foreigners arriving, say Arabs to the US where Arabic is the fastest growing language, become citizens and thus are forced to/have to speak English. However, as you can read, the tendency nowadays is for more and more expats to study Arabic in countries like the UAE and other GCC states.

BTW did you know that around 1/4/1/5 of all Spanish vocabulary derives from Arabic? Almost similar percentage in Portuguese. No wonder that Arabs usually have a very easy time learning Spanish and pronouncing many letters as the pronunciation is similar often.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_of_Arabic_on_other_languages

Over 20 000 Arabic words in the Portuguese language… : Muslim in the Midst…

http://www.transeuropeennes.eu/ressources/pdfs/TIM_2011_Arabic_Portuguese_Catarina_BELO_114.pdf

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-10...f-you-speak-spanish-you-speak-some-arabic-too

 

[HannibalBarca]

Imposing not but encouraging as those people (non-Arab expats) are residents, often temporary, and not citizens. In the West, for now at least, the foreigners arriving, say Arabs to the US where Arabic is the fastest growing language, become citizens and thus are forced to/have to speak English. However, as you can read, the tendency nowadays is for more and more expats to study Arabic in countries like the UAE and other GCC states.

BTW did you know that around 1/3 of all Spanish vocabulary derives from Arabic? Almost similar percentage in Portuguese. No wonder that Arabs usually have a very easy time learning Spanish and pronouncing many letters as the pronunciation is similar often.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_of_Arabic_on_other_languages

Well Almost 600 years..can shape your language. It's like in Malta, you can understand 50% of what they say and it's very special... .
As for arabic lesson, they could have wrote down in the contract that a certain amount of lesson should be taken to improve communication or whatever escuses they want to use. France is doing it... with foreign workers.

 

[nang2]

Arabic is definitely on my list of languages to learn, after German and Spanish.

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

Well Almost 600 years..can shape your language. It's like in Malta, you can understand 50% of what they say and it's very special... .
As for arabic lesson, they could have wrote down in the contract that a certain amount of lesson should be taken to improve communication or whatever escuses they want to use. France is doing it... with foreign workers.

Well, Maltese is a Semitic language after all. It is such a cool fusion between Arabic/Semitic and Romance (Italian and Latin). The few times I have heard it I have been laughing almost the entire time, lol.

Tunisians probably understand Maltese better than any other Arabs.

Just listen.

Arabic is definitely on my list of languages to learn, after German and Spanish.

And I would like to learn Mandarin but I hear that it is incredibly difficult for foreigners to learn. In particular all the characters.

 

[nang2]

And I would like to learn Mandarin but I hear that it is incredibly difficult for foreigners to learn. In particular all the characters.

If Chinese kids can learn, so can any adult. All languages are just habits. So long as you don't use any prejudice against any language, it can become one of your habits in no time.

By the way, Chinese has very loose syntax.

 

[HannibalBarca]

Well, Maltese is a Semitic language after all. It is such a cool fusion between Arabic/Semitic and Romance (Italian and Latin). The few times I have heard it I have been laughing almost the entire time, lol.

Tunisians probably understand Maltese better than any other Arabs.

Just listen.

And I would like to learn Mandarin but I hear that it is incredibly difficult for foreigners to learn. In particular all the characters.

It's like a tourist speaking broken arabic to the souq man...

If Chinese kids can learn, so can any adult. All languages are just habits. So long as you don't use any prejudice against any language, it can become one of your habits in no time.

By the way, Chinese has very loose syntax.

Well the problem is not in writting that specific language, but prononciation...

 

[nang2]

Well the problem is not in writting that specific language, but prononciation...

It is the same. You think it is easy for Chinese to master the guttural sounds in German and Arabic? Don't let your old habit overpower the new one. Make it fun to learn a new habit. It will be easy.

 

[Sargon of Akkad]

If Chinese kids can learn, so can any adult. All languages are just habits. So long as you don't use any prejudice against any language, it can become one of your habits in no time.

By the way, Chinese has very loose syntax.

Of course with hard work and dedication you can learn a new language. Even if it is as difficult like Mandarin or Arabic.

Anyway speaking about Arabic and China you guys, due to your huge population, have almost natives that can speak any language in the world. I even hear that China has an official Arabic channel.

Very good accent too.

BTW the popularity of Chinese language has increased in the Arab world as well which is a good thing if you ask me given the increasing and rising ties between the Arab world and China (business, economy, education etc.).

It's like a tourist speaking broken arabic to the souq man...



Well the problem is not in writting that specific language, but prononciation...

How much Maltese would an Tunisian Arabic (say from Tunis) speaker understand? I imagine most of it.

 

[HannibalBarca]

It is the same. You think it is easy for Chinese to master the guttural sounds in German and Arabic? Don't let your old habit overpower the new one. Make it fun to learn a new habit. It will be easy.

Well German is not easy for European either.

Of course with hard work and dedication you can learn a new language. Even if it is as difficult like Mandarin or Arabic.

Anyway speaking about Arabic and China you guys, due to your huge population, have almost natives that can speak any language in the world. I even hear that China has an official Arabic channel.

Very good accent too.

BTW the popularity of Chinese language has increased in the Arab world as well which is a good thing.



How much Maltese would an Tunisian Arabic (say from Tunis) speaker understand? I imagine most of it.

We only understand the general meaning of the sentence, it's pretty hard to understand maltese actually. but since they use italian and english, we can understand and answer in a conversaion.

 

[nang2]

Of course with hard work and dedication you can learn a new language. Even if it is as difficult like Mandarin or Arabic.

Anyway speaking about Arabic and China you guys, due to your huge population, have almost natives that can speak any language in the world. I even hear that China has an official Arabic channel.

Very good accent too.

BTW the popularity of Chinese language has increased in the Arab world as well which is a good thing if you ask me given the increasing and rising ties between the Arab world and China (business, economy, education etc.).



How much Maltese would an Tunisian Arabic (say from Tunis) speaker understand? I imagine most of it.

haha, thank for the video. I had never heard a chinese speaking arabic before. that was fun.

 

[Zulkarneyn]

I think Arabic is a beautiful language. I know the Arabic alphabet and can read Arabic easily, yet i don't understand much of what i'm reading. Planning to learn it as well one day insha-Allah

 

[Full Moon]

Arabic is a dying language today.

Let's be realistic please.

Oh yeah...

 

[HannibalBarca]

Well, many languages around the world are dying, but some are growing.

English is growing due to globalization, obviously.

French is growing as well because of sub-Saharan Africa.

Chinese is growing because it's spreading across the Far East (East Asia and Southeast Asia) and is being adopted in some African countries.

Turkish is growing in some parts of the Arab World.

But Arabic is definitely dying. Its use has declined sharply in places like Lebanon and Tunisia over the years, and now some countries like the UAE are also complaining about the decline of Arabic.

Arabic dying in Tunisia... ???

 

[Zulkarneyn]

sectarian racist Arab supremacist trash propaganda as always...

when a people have nothing achieved or ill gains, he claims things of other civilization, tries to elevate himself through lies, massive lies of his own people or delusion to justify self failures.

"cradle of cifilisation"

"original language of mankind"

"saladin was a arab"


The report is biased, thats what they teach them, arabs didn't even have a written language till persian script (yes its a persian script not arabic) was given to them, some of the most despotic barbaric of arabs lived in the arabian parts today across the persian gulf.

I mean these lies, the days were good when ottomans suppressed these treacherous people well. after oil goes south, nobody will care much of arabia, nobody still does,
arabs speak english,
arab here is writing in english,
nobody except the ksa asian bootlickers will care about arabic,
no european will want to learn their language with such low caliber and culture and history of savegery.

arabic is a dying language only spoken around the ME, nobody else speaks or understand or wants to like they do english.

false sectarian racist topic started by obese arabs suffering inferiority.

So much hatred in this post. Perhaps this is why you guys don't get along

 

[HannibalBarca]

So much hatred in this post. Perhaps this is why you guys don't get along

Not "you", it's just "he". This guy has a problem and we can do nothing about that...