Hi Arran, you did pretty good especially that you've only studied for 3 months, formal Arabic (Fusha) is difficult to master but most of Arabic speaking people don't master it, What makes Arabic difficult for English speakers: 1. The word root system like Hebrew I think 2. The use of small marks (Harakaat) for the short vowels and usually they are omitted 3. The connected writing system from right to left 4. Nine letters are not in English ( ح خ ع غ ق ص ض ط ظ) 5. Less overlap since it is semitic not germanic language 6. Many dialects... Good news: 1. It is highly derived language, it is easy to guess the meaning of many words unlike english 2. It is phonetic if you use Harakaat 3. For short vowels, you can pronounce them differently and all well be correct in some dialects 4. Flexiblity of words order 5. Many resources 6. One formal language for all Arab world at schools/for news and books 7. Many Arab speak English who can help 8. Arab world is a big market for many forign companies, knowing Arabic can be helpful... Good luck!
Thanks Mahdi, all of those reasons ring true in my own experience. As an English speaker it seems like there are an unusual number of hurdles when starting Arabic, but I feel once you get over those hurdles it's a very rewarding language to know. Do some dialects really not distinguish any of the short vowels?
@@arranmacdonald1442 @Arran MacDonald In the gulf for instance, you may hear people say TaMAT and others say ToMAT (tomato), some say TaMAToM, in Arabic it is TaMAT or TaMATeM , and some say SaMaCH or SaMaK and others say SeMaCH or SeMaK (fish), in Arabic it is written SMK and it is pronounced SaMaK, and in Arabic YoMARes but many people say YeMARes ((he) practices) - notice how I wrote the small vowels in lower letters
Just a note, to say "who/which" in Arabic, you don't say من، that's a literal translation. You use اللذي for male singular, اللتي for female singular, اللذين for male plural, اللاتي for female plural. That is in فصحى ofcourse. But most dialects use اللي for all words regardless of gender or number. I'm a native Arabic speaker and I'm learning Chinese for the fun of it, and I think it's kinda harder because of the tones and the consonants and vowels that don't exist in Arabic and ofcourse the characters. But I'm also learning Hokkien (Taiwanese indigenous language), and Cantonese so it will be even harder to not mix up between the languages lol.
I think he speaks brilliant Arabic!
ماشاء الله يتحدث العربية بطلاقه 👍
Hi Arran, you did pretty good especially that you've only studied for 3 months, formal Arabic (Fusha) is difficult to master but most of Arabic speaking people don't master it, What makes Arabic difficult for English speakers: 1. The word root system like Hebrew I think 2. The use of small marks (Harakaat) for the short vowels and usually they are omitted 3. The connected writing system from right to left 4. Nine letters are not in English ( ح خ ع غ ق ص ض ط ظ) 5. Less overlap since it is semitic not germanic language 6. Many dialects... Good news: 1. It is highly derived language, it is easy to guess the meaning of many words unlike english 2. It is phonetic if you use Harakaat 3. For short vowels, you can pronounce them differently and all well be correct in some dialects 4. Flexiblity of words order 5. Many resources 6. One formal language for all Arab world at schools/for news and books 7. Many Arab speak English who can help 8. Arab world is a big market for many forign companies, knowing Arabic can be helpful... Good luck!
Thanks Mahdi, all of those reasons ring true in my own experience. As an English speaker it seems like there are an unusual number of hurdles when starting Arabic, but I feel once you get over those hurdles it's a very rewarding language to know. Do some dialects really not distinguish any of the short vowels?
@@arranmacdonald1442 @Arran MacDonald In the gulf for instance, you may hear people say TaMAT and others say ToMAT (tomato), some say TaMAToM, in Arabic it is TaMAT or TaMATeM , and some say SaMaCH or SaMaK and others say SeMaCH or SeMaK (fish), in Arabic it is written SMK and it is pronounced SaMaK, and in Arabic YoMARes but many people say YeMARes ((he) practices) - notice how I wrote the small vowels in lower letters
حلو جدا يا اران!! لم اعرف تتكلم العبرية... يرجى عمل المزيد من الفيديوهات بالعربية! 😀 استمتعت هذا كثيرا.
الحمد لله!
شكرا جزيلا يا Charlie؛ لغتك العربية أحسن إكتر من لغتي!
Just a note, to say "who/which" in Arabic, you don't say من، that's a literal translation. You use اللذي for male singular, اللتي for female singular, اللذين for male plural, اللاتي for female plural. That is in فصحى ofcourse. But most dialects use اللي for all words regardless of gender or number.
I'm a native Arabic speaker and I'm learning Chinese for the fun of it, and I think it's kinda harder because of the tones and the consonants and vowels that don't exist in Arabic and ofcourse the characters. But I'm also learning Hokkien (Taiwanese indigenous language), and Cantonese so it will be even harder to not mix up between the languages lol.