Originally posted by: TheNewbie
Originally posted by: daveymark
Originally posted by: Oceandevi
Latin ftw, Arabic is a dead language..
at least he's not studying chinese. now THAT is a dead language (esp mandarin)
Ok, first of all regarding Chinese I think you're making a huge mistake, since China is a growing power, and knowing Chinese may benefit you in business world.
To OP, as for Latin Vs. Arabic, I'd go for Arabic, yes its a disgusting language, but your enemy speaks it, and I think its very important to know your enemy + if you know it real well, you might be able to get a job with the CIA/FBI etc. which can be a nice opportunity.
1) You suck at the sarcasm
2) Disgusting? Whooo Boy...
3) Language of the enemy? Okay =-=
To the OP:
Spoken Arabic and written Arabic are vastly different - Spoken arabic isn't that hard ~ very straight foreward to pick up - main issue is
Americans can't pronounce the words worth sh|t. This is not trying to be mean (although one could say English also sounds like ass...all it shows is I'm a racist. A language's "beauty" is how one chooses to see it) but english lacks a lot of those sounds from the "throat" so they may not be able to do h vs H, t vs T, even rolling an R might be an issue
😉 If you can do ANY glutteral sounds you are already ahead of the pack by a substancial amount.
Written Arabic and PROPER spoken Arabic is an entirely different story...you know how in America we can study "English" over 4 years and get a degree? Over there, Arabic Grammar ALONE is a four year degree, and almost no one speaks proper Arabic that follows all the rules. So if you take Arabic - even fi your professor doesn't - learn spoken Arabic as well as possible because that is what matters the most
Whatever you pick - enjoy it. Arabic itself is a very beautiful language and its lexicon is very interesting. I can't think (if there is, I'm sorry
😛 ) of another language where every word (except for God) is derived from a verb. I know many people don't like the conjugation in Spanish...Arabic is the king of verb conjugations because by altering those verbs you create nearly every form of a word you would want to say - its actually pretty cool. I only wish I could be able to really understand a lot of the more meaningful stuff , but growing up in a different country makes that more difficult.
And realistically i don't see how learning 2-3 years of Arabic would aid all that much unless you actively use it because even if you go after the "enemy", but you pursued arabic as just a "class" than an interest, I don't see how much use "I'm Hungry" and "I like the weather today" and "HI how are you" will actually bring
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