Arabic vs Chinese: Which Is Harder?
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- Arabic vs Chinese: Which Is Harder?
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Mike Still I think Arabic is harder, I’ve brought I Chinese book to learn and it’s a bit easier than Arabic, Arabic is even hard for many of us that why most of us has bad marks in Arabic subject during school days lol
Mike do you speak fusha Arabic right
@@ladymariam7128 By practicing speaking & reading Arabic it would be a little easier ..And of course you should speak with native Arabic people..listen to arabic videos ..
اللغة العربية جميلة جداً وممتعة ..حتى كتابتها مُميزة💜
I mean...chinese was my second language...so i suppose i find Arabic harder, even though i don't really plan to learn it.
Misho Elbagory Lol I am an Arab too !
But I still do mistakes in Arabic that’s why I think it’s hard, جزاك الله خير الجزاء
Arabic is the mother of languages
Beautiful and distinctive language ❤️
Love From Russia 🇷🇺
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شكرا..
Thinks but stalen was fit
Thank you
CYAK BIYAT
Lmfao. This is a dumb statement.
Ok this guy absolutely did not seem as over 70! He looks and sounds enthusiastic and healthy. Fantastic.
People in their 70s today are like people in their 50s 50 years ago.
I can't explain this phenomenon, but it definitely exists.
@@elimalinsky7069 Advances in medicine?
@@Rabolisk Perhaps
He's a silver fox
If it wasn’t for the color of his hair, I’d guess he’s 45. I’d give him 55 max.
Grammatically, Arabic is beyond any other language.
الافضل بكل تأكيد.
@@c.i.a3573 قصد الأصعب اظن
Yes because there are a lot of letters that are very complicated to pronounce like (ض - ط-غ-خ-ث-ص-ح-غ-ق-ذ)
@@azria9598 not just that but the Grammer and sentence order is just different from other languages. .have u ever heard of hidden subjects?
Becker AS have you heard of georgian.
There is really a lot of Arabic words, A LOT ...
2,3 million to be exact 😅😅
@@noonecares6382 including undocumented dialectal or regional words makes it almost impossible to find an accurate word count 😅
Old music Lover 16 million
@Hernando Malinche no, Arabic is very unique
@abdulaziz alqadri no, not 12 it's 2.3
We, Arabs, refer to difficult things as Chinese. Enough said
Lol, i haven't used this before but it's killing me 😂😂
though knowledge is as far as in china
We Chinese refer to difficult things as Arabic, enough said for me too.
@KunstKrieg KinoPix Studios Bro, in China, 3rd graders are learning 12th grade math from the USA
Where exactly from the Arab world are you?? cuz I've never heard of that.
我学习过阿拉伯文和中文，تعلمت اللغة العربية واللغة الصينية بكل حماس وجهدي!
HOW ?!
بكل حماس وجهد 😆
@@nourdaniel2437
What wrong in sentense ?!
@@King133 "جهدي"
بكل حماس وجهد *
The Arabic dialects are relatively easier but fus’haa is really hard even for natives since the structure of a sentence can change if it’s poetry or if a new word is added and the sounds are different based on the location in the sentence.
You're completely right, me as an Egyptian agrees with you
Yeah I’m sixteen the only reason I don’t get A's in Arabic is because i gave up on learning na’ho a long time ago
Fusha is not difficult for natives. Fusha is difficult for natives who weren't taught Arabic properly in school from an early age, which is a shame to say the least.
@@husain3190 exactly, for example in my school most of the Arabic teachers were horrible and they made us hate learning arabic because we were only listening to the teacher and writing down what he says... Most of them ended up hating it. Luckily I went to germany and I was doing like an exchange of languages where I teach my teacher Arabic and translate for her biology books and poetry. I started to love it so much and found out that Arabic is very logical and can be learned easily if we had good teachers.... It's just sad
@@NourSharif7 I'm very happy to hear that and I agree! Another lesson to take away here is that you didn't find out how beautiful Arabic is "by chance." You were willing to put in the effort. You had it in you. Thanks for sharing your story!
Hearing people say Arabic is harder than Chinese actually gives me hope in learning Chinese because I find tones sooo difficult 😂 and I speak fluently Arabic.
Chinese has no grammar
Is it your native language?
@@Ernest0M0lina Yes I'm Moroccan.
مرحبا
Rita Nova I think morrocan is harder than Chinese (I’m morrocan) good luck in ur journey!
Fun fact, Arabs invented algebra. In fact the word “algebra” originates form an Arabic word
thats right "الجبر" = "algbr" in arabic
@@yazan4520 هو ايه الجبر دا؟
SΛł زي مثلًا ، س=٣ ، كده يعني ، بس طبعا الموضوع اصعب من كده و بيلخبط
I think it was the Persians who invented it...
Algebra comes from arabic word al jabr
While I'm struggling around 6 years to learn English as a second language
Folha
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Don’t even think to learn a new language.
KunstKrieg KinoPix Studios
Your right. I see Arabic is much easier in spelling and reading (if you know the rules). But in English it’s very random.
Me too😂 But I am starting to learn mandarin.
West Side 187 Seriously? Arabic is my first language and qawa3ed is SO hard. The grammar is terrifying.
Nada TW
Read my comment probably. I said just for spelling and reading.
When you're Arabic and you're watching him saying Arabic is hard.
STONK
😂
Yori Grad ... im arab and NO ONE refers to us as arabic. if ur talking in english, its arab. period.
It depends, if you mean modern Arabic then its very easy but if you mean fosha then it's very hard that it's not uncommon to hear a khatib make tens of grammatical errors.
Fosha takes years to learn even for natives like me.
Yesss
Fosha is really really hard for Arabic person so how it will be to For a foreign person?
I keep forgetting that he is already in his 70s. There's really no stopping us from learning.
As an arab I'll tell you:
Tenses are super easy, we just have past + Modarii (which is used for both present and future) + imperative.
Prononus are quite easy. There's I and we, then you(male), you (female). Then both of you (males) and both of you (females), then all of you (males) and all of you (females). Finally, there's he, she, the two of them (males), the two of them (females), all of them (males) and all of them (females).
I think what's harder in Arabic are two things that are intertwined : Tackhil and Iraab.
Tachkil changes the pronunciation. So while in English you want to make the sound "o" You'll put an o. In arabic we'll use small things under or on the letters to show how it's pronounced. It's very hard to explain it you don't speak any Arabic.
As for Iraab... I think it's the most complicated thing ever in learning a language. I've studied Arabic for 13 years in school with all the passion I had, and still don't have a grasp of Iraab. I don't even know how to explain it lol
Aside from that, Arabic has a very large vocabulary. There are words which have 300 synonyms and words for very precise feelings or actions or situations.
Arabic is a beautiful language
Funny Bunny for you it’s easy
Funny Bunny there is like a 1000 tenses المشتق و الضمير و الخرابيط هاي
Tashkil is like “a e u” = “ أَ أِ أُ " but it’s not common to use
ppl usually use it when simping
بتهزري 🤡🤡 ايه السهل في الموضوع
I am arabian and we don't understand some of the arabic till now espacially the old one we learn new words everyday !
same here
Yesss I was going to say that!!
@@whocares7974 armyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
@@hafsaaj639 yesssss armyyyy heyyyy 😭😭😭😭😭❤❤❤❤ انتي عربية صحيح ؟؟؟ من وين ؟؟
@@whocares7974 صح من المغرب وانتي!
Arabic just has to be the most perfect language, where there's a reason behind everything, rather like chemistry you can analyse the words, so an educated Arab is like a walking Encyclopedia despite the fact the script looks like a spider that had an accident with an ink pot the letters are simply a different shape.
Thanx😀😀
That's Greek fam, the reason behind everything is the definition of the Greek language.
@@shadowscrews8073 shut up
By the way. The word Chemistry comes from arabic verb (Kama) and it is (Kimia'a) in Arabic which means to hide st important. That Chemistry is a science with it's own hidden treasures.
I am an Engineer from the west and I have learned Arabic. I prefer to say that it is more like mathematics than chemistry. But otherwise you are 100% correct. 😀
People who are saying chinese is the hardest,
Arabic Language be like : hold my iraab اعراب 😂😂
You can't find it in any language in the whole world.
Ok we have اعراب in our language too in kurdish language 😊
Isn't i'raab just grammar things? Like, i can do it to english too: "the dog peed in the house"
(The)--article
(Dog)--subject
(Peed)--past verb
(In)--place of action particle(?)
(The)--article
(House)--side subject
@@xXJ4FARGAMERXx يارب تكون تمزح اذا الاعراب كذا كلنا يمدينا نعرب " اكل احمد التفاحة "
اكل : فعل ، احمد : فاعل ، التفاحة : مفعول فيه ، لا الموضوع مو كذا الموضوع احمد فاعل مرفوع وعلامة رفعه الضمة الظاهره على اخره !!
eerab is grammatical case ending
@@xXJ4FARGAMERXx That is the same ʾIʿrāb I teach my 9 years old sibling, ʾIʿrāb is more complicated and harder than that it takes years just to learn the basics of Iraab even for today's native arabic speakers let alone non Arabs.
I like Arabic and Chinese languages but I can’t speak neither of them.💀
Start practicing! Anybody can do it.
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@The Islamic Republic of Iran's Wet Ass Hair
Thank you for correcting me 🤗
Arabic is second language in Somalia
not that hard for you to learn you have similar words
I live in an Arabic country learned Arabic from school i i find it difficult, understanding the meaning is difficult sometimes especially in old arabic poetry, that was a nightmare for me, and every country has their own dialect for me i can't understand what Egyptian are saying
Hi I am egyption😂😂😂😭
as an Egyptian I have to agree with you our dialect sounds really stupid -_-
So true, I’m arabic but learned Arabic as my second language and its still so hard for me compared to English
we missed you mike!!
Well, talking as arabic as a communication ( modern arabic) yes its easy but if you would like to speak fluent arabic its hard, and difficult part is grammer, vocabulary and there lot of annoying things if you would to go deep in the language, its even difficult for us, one arabic might has 10 diffirent meanings
أبي فاء إلي الفيء فإذا فاء الفيءُ أتي
It means my dad went to desert (or far place) if evenining ( sunset) started fall he will back home, so الفيء has two meaning first : open place or far place, second : is shadow, shadow of tree or rock etc
Lol me too I feel ashamed 😂💔
@@youngartists4352 هاي في الفصحى، يعني أبوي راح للصحرا او لمكان بعيد و إذا غابت الشمس رجع البيت، فاءَ يعني ذهب، الفيء تعني الصحراء أو مكان واسع و بعيد، فاء الفيء يعني وقت المغيب أو بدء الليل
As a Chinese, Arabic is much harder than Chinese XD (look I’m just joking, Chinese is really hard, even for native speakers)
As Arabian, Chinese is much harder hehehe!
Look Chinese is hard to write but easy to speak.. Arabic is really hard in grammar that I'm at university and we still learn the 4th level of arabic grammar.
But i really really wanna speak chinese:(
Tao Huang Your name seems Chinese
Tao Huang however Chinese’s got tones that is really hard for Foreigners. Different tones have different meanings
@@nemoshu7119 hehe yes this is not my official account, and I'm a fan of a Chinese idol (Z.Tao) abd that's why i totally wanna learn chinese. But there is no Chinese institute in my city. T.T
I'm arab and I believe that my (fussha) arabic is better than average, i can speak English which is a very easy language to me.
I'm learning Chinese and yes it's so hard BUT I still think arabic is the hardest thing ever not just as a language but it's so beautiful too. like you can't ever be THAT fluent bc it's such a big and complicated language, it's art 👁
@UCPjlicTkM8zkhhbYgCJ8zuw lmao you do realise that it's been there AGES before Qur'an even existed, right? 😂
of course you can be fluent in Arabic, especially if it's your mother tongue. You can't master it without spending a big part of your life studying it but that applies to other languages too I guess. Anyway I get your point, but I'm pretty sure the only reason we find Fusha hard to speak is because we rarely every speak Fusha. We've been taught to speak slang from an early age. It's all a matter of practice.
@@YAZ._.10 the arabic we use on a daily basis isn't that hard but like the FUSSHA fussha is so mf hard😭 we barely even see/hear it now a days
@@YAZ._.10 or bc of both maybe, like, I would use it and learn it (at least in school) if it wasn't too damn hard
@@YAZ._.10 the fussha Arabic is not a dead language, we learn Arabic fusha in school. In news papers. In TV interviews and cartoons.(all that happens in middle eastern countries). We just don't communicate in fussha. But fussha is definitely alive and we learn it.
Such a unique and interesting perspective! I majored in Chinese (Mandarin) and am now learning Arabic for fun. Will be interesting to see the similarities and differences as I continue. Looking forward to be able to communicate in Arabic soon(ish). Thanks for another great video!
Good luck. Arabic person here :)
@@abirnadraaouida2830 💕شكرا
If you need any help i can help you ...
Just curious, which one do you think is hard? I'm Chinese
ييلاا بالتوفيقق وان شاللهه تنجحين بالنحو والاعرابب
Mr.Steve is a real teacher I really would like to learn any language from him , My greatest from Bahrain 🌹
I’m a native Mandarin speaker from Mainland China and know Shanghainese( native to that city) and English, some French, a bit Latin and very little German. Personally speaking I think Chinese is one of the easiest languages, grammatically. There are no verb conjugations( French and English verbs are quite irregular); no noun declensions and no cases( like in German and Latin); the numeral systems (cardinal and ordinal) are crazy simple( unlike, for instance, French and especially the Latin ordinal number system), the sentence structures casual and simple, no tenses in a Indo-European sense( simply add phrases such as in the past/now/in the future); the passive voice is easy to learn( especially compared to Latin, for example); there is not even such thing as an “infinitive”. In Grammatical terms, I believe that Chinese is easier than English even. I admit that accumulating vocabulary is hard, but if you are a native speaker of Germanic/Romance languages, you’ll face the exact same challenge learning Arabic or Japanese.
On the other hand ,Chinese dialects are really insane. MOST aren’t worth taking the time learning ; if really you want to learn Chinese dialects, try hokkien, Hakka or Cantonese because they are widely spoken in the Chinese overseas diaspora.
Great motivational videos! Thanks for sharing !!
So inspiring!
Hi Mike, I've been learning Arabic by myself for a while mainly concentrating on Iraqi and Gulf Arabic. I'm always in need of more conversation practice though. If you keen, we could some videos where two foreigners having a conversation in Arabic without resorting to English. I think it could be interesting to Arabs and Arabic learners alike.
Arabic is so easy for practicing the language as communication. But it’s so complicated to practice it as a formal language or as they call it they modern standard Arabic!
@lola dacutest
I don’t know if it would be easier to learn but it’s most definitely it’s going to be odd and strange to talk Formal Arabic because literally nobody uses it.
Brilliant talk , very informative bc I'm thinking of learning Spanish ,and it's really great to hear the experience of a polyglot in learning a new language. And we all have to know that if we're afraid of making mistakes we'll never learn anything.
I learnt "alsalam alikom" and found that enough for me
Good job 😂
@@onma07ksa lool
I only know how to write ni hao ____> 你好 :D
For the record alsalam alikom
Doesn't mean hello
It means (peace upon you)
Hello is ( marhaba)
@@badr6896 good to know, thx
Both these languages are so hard that most natives have trouble with them. I'm not gonna go around talking about Chinese because I truthfully don't know much about it. But as an Arabic speaker. The Arabic language is so extremely difficult. Here's a few things about it.
Arabic grammar is SUPER hard, like, it's actually weird how hard it could be for some natives. Every word can have so many meanings and can easily change the whole meaning of a sentence by its position.
Arabic Grammar can be referred to as An-Nahw
Every word can be a
1)Noun
2)Verb
3)Harf (A Harf is most likely a small word like In, on, yes, no, what, Etc...) Also, the translation of "Harf" is "Letter"
Changing the last letter of a word could often change its whole meaning, also, a lot of words could be written in over 2 ways.
Even natives find it tiring to write in Arabic sometimes, that's why a lot of Egyptians (Who speak their own form of Arabic, although using the same letters.) have created their own texting language called "Franko" Which is basically speaking in Arabic but using English words mixed with numbers.
For example: They use the numbers 2, 3, 5, 7 to compensate for Arabic letters that they can't replace with English ones.
Ana 7abeb mawdoo3 eni batkalem 3ala lo5'etna dah.
What you just tried to read was a sentence written in Franko meaning "I like the fact that I'm talking about our language a lot."
I’m native Arabic and I speak Chinese but I think Arabic harder than Chinese
Really? As a CHINESE,I think CHINESE isThe most difficult language In The world
To each their own opinion 😊
I think Arabic is really hard but I don't know a thing about Chinese so I can't compare
yes!
Coolidge Lin Grammar of Arabic is very difficult unlike Chinese
جذاااب
THIS video motivated me to study more languages and to keep learning what interests us...actually be good at it..also to have like competencies in our interests...etc.. so thank you
I’m actually studying both of them, wish me luck!
"It's never been easy to learn a language"
me learning English : hold my beer
Agamenon 😂😂😂😂😂👌🏻
Lool😆
Hold my phrasal verbs
@@tattooome5088 phrasel verbs ? LOL
We learned them in school . Not hard , and you don't need them in your daily life .
what that's not even what he said, he said "it's never been easiER"
in my opinion as an arab who lived in china for 7 years now , when comparing the two languages the only harder aspect about chinese is the writing aspect but almost every other thing about arabic is harder considering that you don't know anything about any of the two .
It's not just about the writing. Because of their long history of civilisation, there are so many cultural aspects embedded in the language in their everyday conversations. Proverbs here and there...which don't sound pompous in the casual way they use it. Sure, basic mandarin is sooo easy....expressing what you want to eat and getting around. But having a decent conversation takes years of learning.
@@n661 Classical Arabic is superior literature.
Mike you are so kind and respected. Keep it up, استمر يا بطل
I'm an arabic, and there are Arabic books i could read without understanding a word, it's really hard and in depth.
same goes for every language stop trying to make arabic sound like some divine language
@@popoussa6847 oh buddy you don't even know! I am a native Arabic speaker and I have studied the language for 13 year's and I still can't read a lot of books properly, Arabic has a lot of words, grammar and it changes based on what you're reading if your reading something like a normal newspaper you'll get most of it! but if you're reading the Qur'an or Poetry
it's whole another language, I wouldn't recommend you to learn it, it just too hard and not worth it.
@@glacier_10_years_ago I am also a native speaker so i know what i am talking about.
@@popoussa6847 Should I learn arabic?
@@glacier_10_years_ago It's not worth it?
To learn Arabic , you need to appreciate it's beauty, once you realize it , you'll learn it quicker, for fusha, try listening to the Quran, to start practicing arabic choose a dialect and learn it, then you'll pick up more quickly.
But wdym?? What if someone is not Muslim and wants to learn?? It's not all about religion
@@akdrea you misunderstood me, you don't have to be a muslim, but Quran is Arabic in its prime grammatically and audibly.
also the poetry
try to listen to al mutanabi's poets
🙋🏻♀️From Jordan ❤🇯🇴
We love your channel 💜
I'm from Indonesian,, now I'm in jordan can you learn me Arabic
@@alacakus8856 do you have instagram or Facebook?
@@alacakus8856 girl
@@alacakus8856 santi azyan alilah
@@alacakus8856 زاحف
Respect... as a Chinese learning English for years, I have to turn on the CC subtitles.
I've been learning Arabic about nine years now and absolutely agree: the key to success is putting in the time and learning lots and lots of vocabulary. If you just read al-Kitaab at university or a language school in the Middle East, you will never get anywhere. Bin or burn or ignore al-Kitaab. There are so many good resources you can use to build a good base in your own time. Linguaphone, Mastering Arabic, Small Wonders Arabic (graded readers), Thackston's Koranic and Classical Arabic (the best book I read for grammar in context, ignore the fact it says classical). The very best I found was "Standard Arabic, an elementary to intermediate course" (translated from German, well worth buying the casettes as there was no 2nd edition with CDs). When you've built a good base of lots of media and literary vocab, you can supplement that with reading authentic sources. BBC Arabic is fantastic, as is al-Jazeera (google تعلم العربية and their fantastic site for non-native learners comes up, for English, French or Turkish speakers. See "Language of media": even their elementary articles are filled with new vocab, translations, exercises, some videos so you can listen while reading and learning. Put the hours in (I made the most progress when I did 4-6 hours a day but literally any time you put in is time well spent, 20 mins a day is better than a few hours in one go once a week), read out loud, translate, and you can get on top of Arabic. But if you just do what you're told in class, progress will be very limited!
Hello Lydia! I'm a native Arabic speaker but I wanna help my friends who are learning Arabic. Can you please recommend books or UA-cam channels also a dictionary German - Arabic or English - Arabic.
Thank you in advance.
I used to teach Arabic for non speakers from the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Italy and Albania they all agreed that Arabic might be difficult in producing voices they aren't used to like ح، ع and little difficulty in غ، خ
But it is very easy to learn when they know the forms of the verbs . Those forms made it easier for them to form the nouns, adjectives and so on.
I've been learning both almost a year In my opinion arabic is harder (to pronounce) based on thai language is my mother tongue in Thai they don't have غ ض ص sounds that's why arabic is harder than Chinese
Yeah but when your speaking in sentences mispronounciation isnt so relevant they will understand you exactly the vast majority of the time.
I think it's because their mother tongue is English... Maybe!
@@marklittler784 no it is actually relevant if you mispronounce a letter and what you said resembles another letter the meaning can drastically change.
i had a russian friend that was learning arabic, once she tried to say she's fluent she ended up saying that she is a ****
@@belha1075 i know a guy who msiprounce shower for smoking and beach to bi**h
That’s why its good being Arab 🤓
As a Chinese, I feel that the Arabic text is shaped like noodles and looks like my draft of Maths🤣🤣
As an Arabian, I feel the Chinese text is as drawing with lines. Like for example I see your first name is like a house 🤣. But I hope one day I learn chinese
Wow,you need to look at your whole pasta bowl bruh 😂
俞鸿波
Yeah since almost all the words are together like
(شكرًا) (thank you)
الله يعينك لازم تتعلم اللغه والله صعبه علينا اجل كيف عليك ككك😂😂😂
Zaina Salman In fact, Chinese characters are drawing. A long time ago, Chinese characters were drawn according to the physical characteristics of things and eventually evolved into current characters.🤣🤣
ayyy im happy i watched both of you prior to this
I speak Arabic and from my perspective Chinese is way harder because of the sounds and the è é ê things that i can't understand. In Arabic the tone you say a word doesn't matter that much if you pronounce it right but in Chinese it can change the meaning like Haha means mom but hāhā means horse, one mistake and your mom is a horse. But grammar is easier in Chinese i guess. The hardest grammar I've witnessed so far is German.
one mistake and your mom is a horse
Actually Standard Mandarin has the easiest tone system with only four tones. In some dialects we even have 10 tones! But most times it doesn’t matter a lot to pronounce incorrect tones because most Chinese people would still understand. But is it right that Chinese grammar is extremely easy. Still I would suggest it is Finnish that has the hardest grammar.
not haha it's mama
@Xinyi Cui sorry i mixed it up with Japanese or maybe it's just a misinformation.
@@user-hd2ng7zs4j never knew that. Thanks for the info.
What makes Arabic hard is a lot of Arabic countries speak different then each other like the Arabic you hear from countries like Saudi Arabia(which in some regions they speak different Arabic) UAE Kuwait Qatar Bahrain might find people from yemen or northern African countries speak different from each other
But be sure that if you talked with them with the fus'ha they will understand you even if you went to morroco, kuwait, sudan, iraq or any another arabic country.
Bashar Shareef but some words will be hard to understand
As an iraqi who have met arabs from all over Arab countries, I'm telling you we understand eachother perfectly.
The only hard words are the not common ones.
Are you an arab?
@@Ushed92388 yes I am from the UAE. yes we understand each other perfectly but we might not understand some words
@@homersimpson6585 are you a Sufi?
Hello Mike,
Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. There is a beautiful quote from our former president, Nelson Mandela which he said," Speak to a man in a language he understands and it will go to his brain , speak to man in his language and it will go to his heart."
I am learning both at college now :"), and this is harder than I thought!
Black Gucci keep going and you will get there .
@@LearnArabicwithRazan
Thanks for encouraging, Darling♡!
Black Gucci where you from? I’m arab and i hate arabic grammar too much lol good luck
@Black Gucci Keep going
Did you have to pay for the courses or can you just apply freely for it like chorus classes?
people forgot that each Arabic country has it is own accent and it is own arabic too beside the original arabic
I would argue that Chinese actually has more diversity in dialects/accents than Arabic does.
@@JustinG1057 Ok if you wanna argue , Chinese have 7 dialects , Arabic have more than 30.
@@22joy yes that's true I'm Iraqi and we have lots dialects inside of Iraq let alone the other different Arab countries 😅😅
@@letshavefun3653 I am from Algeria dear , If you know what I mean , dialects that I myself don't understand inside our country LOL.
@@22joy yes actually I understand I'm in college now and there are students from everywhere in Iraq and even I don't understand some of the things they say😂😂😂
I think Chinese is harder. Chinese have 4 tones and a neutral tone. You maybe think you can pronounce them correctly, but Mandarin speakers will improve you many times. And the 50,000 characters in Chinese are harder than the 28 (x4) letters in the Arabic alphabet.
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It depends on your background. E.g. If you're a Korean or a Japanese, then it's easier to learn Chinese than any other language. However, if you're a Iranian, it's not hard to learn Arabic.
The unique feature of Chinese is its tone. If you start to learn Chinese as a adult, then the only way for you to make it is to move there and live with Chinese for a long time. No exception.
You couldn’t be further from the truth
Arabic is my native language and I do speak Chinese language, I believe Arabic is much harder than Chinese. Arabic grammar is very difficult, vocabulary range is so huge, pronunciation is also not that easy. So in conclusion Arabic is most difficult language in the whole world then the Chinese language comes in the Second rank
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Arabic is pretty neutral. Russian has a way more complex grammar. I love Arabic anyway.
The most difficult is the Spanish
@@user-qc5ms3mc4f Spanish is probably the easiest to learn.
Even tho we Arabs speak fluent arabic but sometimes we find new words that are difficult especially the old Arabic
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Old Arabic you mean fusha?
@@rifkymaulana6800 fusha is standardized arabic, not that old.
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Algeria has some really fucked up French-like Arabic so that's why you find some words hard...
Arabic is easy to write but hard in grammar
Chinese is easy in grammar but hard to write
As a person who's started learning Mandarin and Arabic at the same time (a bad idea really) Arabic is definitely easier. Mandarin has actually made me cry lmao
I want to learn both, but not sure which one will be harder. I think I may struggle with the tones.
@@LilT9180 I would suggest Mandarin :D
@@LilT9180 I would suggest Arabic :D
@@eliasziad7864 it will be better for him learn mandarin instead of arabic because chinese is the second most speaking language and for the economy
@@felipegaray21 That’s not a good reason to learn Mandarin Chinese. Yes, it has close to a billion speakers, but it’s barely spoken outside of China/Taiwan, and many of the Mandarin dialects are unintelligible with each other! Also, every Chinese person you’ll interact with in the business world will already speak fluent English
Fun fact : there is 12.3 million Arabic words, and 85,568 Chinese words.
Most stupid comment ever made. Chinese characters are not words. They are like your alphabet. There is an infinite number of Chinese words because characters can be mixed and matched to create an endless number of permutations to form 'words'. Experts 20 years ago said Chinese will be the last language to die out simply because of its infinite potential to express itself, which will allow for perpetual evolution. Fun fact: there are 28 Arabic letters and over 50,000 Chinese characters. This is a better comparison.
Same goes with Arabic because as new things come out new words gets created and it’s like derived from an original word which makes it beautiful. Also you spoke about 28 Arabic letters, but here is the catch. There are like signs ً،َ،ِ،ٍ،ُ،ٌ،ْ،ّ which can be placed into letters which can change the whole meaning. They act like the tone of our voice for example َ we bring out our voice and make it higher voice and extend it. Also for the letters there are different versions of the letter like ى and ا they are the same letter but they are used in different ways. Also there is like a formula when new inventions/ things that come out for new words. It’s like for machines they would have a form, but derived.. etc
@@mohld3786 I do not doubt the beauty and complexity of Arabic. In fact, I'm really keen to pick it up in a year or two..I think the Arab civilisation as a whole is fascinating..but to call Chinese characters 'words' is simply incorrect and I was just trying to point that out. My comment sounded like I was undermining Arabic simply because your comment seemed to oversimplify Chinese. I know you said it in a tongue-in-cheek manner so I was not particularly offended.
Sorry for offending you
Languages take different evolutionary paths depending on the cultures that spoke it. Ancient Arabs did not use language simply to convey meaning, to them language was also a means of displaying skill. And they took this quite seriously, it could literally determine your status in society. Talking with meaningful sentences that rhythm and producing great poems on the go were abilities that could make you a revered person. The standards were so high even the most novice poets back then would be considered eloquent in the modern day. This is why when you hear classic Arabic you can actually *feel* that it came out of a place where people cared about how pleasant speech sounded.
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والله مشاءالله عليكم، استمر يا مايك و حاول قد ما تقدر تتعلم اللحجه السعودية كمان.🥰
Awesome work, Mike and Steve!
Arabic is not as hard as people say, it's the language of the Quran and many people who aren't Arab but Muslim know a little bit Arabic by reading and understanding the Quran. you don't have to be perfect at speaking Arabic but when it comes to reading, its easy because you pronounce all of the letters instead of English where there is soft letters in some words which you don't say.
in Quran harakat are written but not in other stuff so good luck trying to read a text without harakat you will end up reading words as something else completely different cause by changing the haraket words will totally change therefore changing the meaning of a whole sentence. and the whole point is to understand what you are reading not just read it but i would still say chinese is harder in terms of writing but arabic is harder in terms of pronounciation and grammar
I can read letters without harakat or dots and many other people can also do.
@@osamabinlackin1556 i didn't say no one can do it lol
but it's not easy and i mentioned that chinese is harder in all of the writing part
@@belha1075 if you are not arabic yesbit will be difficult to read, but if you are arabic you can read it with no harakat and dots, reason why that happend when islamic state started tp expand andnreached indoa, pakistan etc, so non arabs had difficulties in reading quran during amawies age so a guy called AL ASWAS AL DOÁLY started that so to make it easier for non arabs, we actually didnt use dots and harakat you may find old quran or letter during prohpite mohammad has no dots at all
@@ahmadmelhem1499 bro ! yeah we're talking about learning arabic so of course i am talking about non natives ..
As a native arabic speaker, i agree that arabic grammar is insanely hard , i mean many words are spelled the same but dont mean the same because of the harakat on them (small accents and punctuation on the letters)
If the words change in a sentence you sometimes need to change the word spelling and structure to fit the i'rab which is the gramatical analysis of it such as with connected and seperate pronouns, plurals , the vocabulary is insanely large not to mention the fact that youre basically learning two languages because the fusha (formal) and a'ameya ( informal ) are so different words wise and grammar wise and pronunciation and spelling etc...
And thats without mentioning that arabs have so many different dialects where sometimes w struggle to understand arabs from other countries because their words and wording and vocab is soo different
Arabic becomes easier when you regularly recite the Quran
i Agree things are way easier nowadays ty @mikestilluk
I am a Chinese Canadian 🇨🇳🇨🇦 who is from British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦 and I would say Chinese is harder even though I am Chinese
Do you have any experience learning Arabic?
Lol try learning Arabic grammar
Well You don’t know anything just try to learn Fosha also the grammar and Syntax .. I’m Arabic and I still falling in that lessons lol
Ok but what about إعراب؟
Because that sh*t, even though Arabic is my mother tongue, is the hardest thing I have ever had and have to study. And I still don’t know how to do it properly
Atomshapeshifter A إعراب is the bane of my existence
it so ez bro
Me too🤡💔
They’re both strong personalities. They’re both trying to have the last word.
Trying to have the last word in a conversation doesn't mean they have strong personalities though. It could mean that person is just stubborn or shallow or trying to share more information or to showoff his knowledge to impress...and the list goes on. You're stating that they are trying to have the last word as it was a verified fact, while it is only your own prejudice from your own perspective. Your comment shows how judgemental you are.
Akrem Amara yeah a truly smart person is one who lets the fool have the last word
شكرا مايك و ستيف على هذه المحادثة الرائعة.
If there is score for difficulty...
Arabic will get 6/10
Chinese will get 11/10.
العربية لغة الأدب و الوصف
the english its sceince language
المزيج بينهما ينتج شيء رائع
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arabic grammar is SOOOOOOOOO complicated oh my god, the hardest in the whole world i am certain
Yeah it’s too hard to us as Arabian learn grammars
الله المستعان exactly!! i still find it so difficult even though i am about to graduate lmao
Truee
I can deal with grammar, considering the big deal with arabic is speaking it as it sounds 😭 ok, no
just forget it and learn English (the easiest language in the world)
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Fact
Arabs themselves have a problem with their own language's grammar and they find it difficult
Arabic is known as one of the hardest subjects at school and it's rare when you find someone who loves it, but most of the problems that they encounter are because the grammar which is also known as 'Naho' ،، 'نحو'
The process of a man's love
Fitst喜欢上一个人
Then喜欢上一个人
Then喜欢上一个人
End喜欢上一个人
It's the same sentence, but it means different things
Translate :
Fall in love somebody
Like to fxxx somebody
Miss your ex
Enjoy alone
That's how hard it is to speak Chinese
i dont know chinese but im willing to bet that each sentence sounds different despite looking the same on paper
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As a fluent Arabic speaker Arabic is pretty hard even if it’s my first language🤭
مايك ما رأيك تعمل فيديو من خلاله تجرب بعض تطبيقات تعلم اللغة الانجليزية
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how u people write ?its like drawing stuff
@@hihi-zh2sc we just combine the letters together like ع ر ب ي when you combine it together it's written عربي it's really easy
@@menamohamed827 oh haha thats interesting
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my teacher sometimes stops in the middle of class because of the bad writing in arabic. We've been actually learning to write arabic since being 6 years olds and we still make mistakes while writing. (keep in mind that arabic is very hard so thats normal and my language comes from 70% arabic)
I studied fus7a in university so I already know the alphabet and have a foundation for vocab, plus as a Jew I know Hebrew which has similar structure being a related language so def for me Arabic is easier because it isn't alien. Chinese I wouldn't even know where to start, from characters to words to pronounciation.
Arabic seems to be a perfect language where you can analyse individual words rather like chemicals, the problem lies in it trying to be as perfect as possible in turn making it more complicated.
@@marklittler784 exactly, when it comes to mastering fus7a even native Arabic speakers struggle to get perfect.
Yeah I agree with you, I speak yiddish and learning german was really easy for me since yiddish is so similar, but I would definitely not know where to start if I wanted to learn chinese
Arabic and hebrew are branchedbfrom senitic language thats why you will find lot of words are same or has same meanings
I believe Chinese is harder because it's a tonal language! (Arab here)
Agreed
lol u can master tones with time.
but remember we have been given arabic grammars for 12 years and they are very complicated.
arabic grammar books are sometimes 1000 pages.
I am from syria btw.
@@eyadsy6208 I agree that Chinese grammar is easier than Arabic, but when it comes to pronunciation I think Chinese would be more difficult. Difficulty is relative though. And hey, I'm Syrian too.
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@@dentonssubliminals Chinese tone is super hard to pick up, if you say it wrong it will make you sound like a donkey
I am Chinese but Arabic is way much harder......
I'm in the first year of high school and I'm italian, studying my own language, latin, spanish, english and chinese in school!
Sounds Greek to me
As a native Chinese and English speaker,married to a native Arabic speaker and learning Arabic... here’s my conclusion: 1. Arabic dictation is easy, it is basically a series of alphabets and you will be able to read Arabic letters after 2 weeks of practice. Chinese on the other hand are thousands of characters that you are unable to read at all within weeks. 2. Grammar wise, Arabic appears a lot more complicated than Mandarin.
I don’t think Chinese is that hard it’s just the character and tones and you will learn it as practicing
I like he said Chinese has no grammer. lmao
Im from Hong Kong and you should try Cantonese! It is super hard (even for me as a local) but it is so beautiful! It's got do much features from ancient Chinese!
If u r wondering about my username, it is just a mix of first and last names of some of the novel characters that I like😊
As an Arabic speaker ( Egyptian) speaking 4 languages, Arabic , English, French & Turkish , I can say that the difficulty definitely in Arabic , especially the grammar, the Arabic grammar is so eloquent that it makes it so hard to master it , the language in Arabic is so rich , you talking about the first language that puts the alphabet system ( 28 letters..even the names of the letters are originally Arabic .. on earth now we still have a language that have the oldest writings on earth was in Arabic , alphabetic , not primitive or have a structure to the language
وينكم يا عرب اذا انت عربي 🤘😎 اخبط لايك 👍👍👍👍👍
Even I’m Chinese, I have to say Chinese is damn so hard. One day my friend who is taking Chinese course asked me something about grammar, I just have no idea and question myself did I learn grammar when I was little? Idk how to explain, because we native speakers just talk in this way since we were born without thinking too much. Even later when we talk in Chinese, my friend tried to correct my Chinese grammarʕʘ‿ʘʔ. And when I tried to help him to correct his composition, I just want to change the whole structure to make sense, but it makes the thing harder because for people who take Chinese as a L2, their writing style is just so special………
真是个小可爱 Native speaker would never learn grammar from their language. That’s why you can’t explain it to your friend.
That's the same problem with us writing in English. Strange writing style.
Well I think you should take some Arabic grammar lessons 😂😂
well just try to learn the grammar and Syntax , Parsing the sentences .. especially how to talk Fosha .. I'm studying in the university and I still falling in that lessons lol
Like steve said generally languages as you keep stimulating your brain with their structures grammar vocabulary and etc.. You can get hold of any language and that's why I think Arabic would be SOOO easy for someone who can think of grammar logically, it's very logical! So I really think Arabic is an easy language
Hello~ I’m a Mandarin user🇹🇼(Taiwanese) I speak English and Français, and I would say Mandarin isn’t a difficult language if you compare to your grammar, because Mandarin is literally a non-grammar language(for a native opinion). If your sentence is logical, and it can be understand, so there is no necessary to memorise too many grammar.
But as for the vocabulary...it’s not that easy at all. Even the native still makes lots of mistakes LOL.
As what you said, learning a language by surfing internet is absolutely a good way to the beginner! But I also highly recommend to find a good book to read, it’s very useful. Not only getting more grasp to the language, it can also let you fall in love with it!!!
insightful, you drew my attention to mandarin :)
I wouldn't go ahead and say Chinese is a non-grammar language. Though it's much less complex than many European languages, it really has all the grammar that it needs to function properly as a language. That being said, there are still plenty of grammar stuff that I find unfamiliar. Like the use of 把，了，过，被，在....上，一...就，得，etc and iffy word order.
@@matthewbitter532 For arabic every single word has an origin consist of 3 letter word which is a verb, each 3 letter verb has possibility to make up to 21 different words
Chinese sentence structure is insanely easy, but their writing is insanely hard. Arabic sentence structure is a bit more complicated, but the writing is easier.
For native English speakers, of course Chinese would be harder to write as they use logo graphics, instead of a phonetic alphabet. But yeah, otherwise I agree.
Everyday Chinese grammar is very simple, but you still have a long way to go if you want to read some interesting articles. And the Chinese poetry and grammar of classical Chinese have baffled many Chinese
Arabic language is so easy😄 It’s so flexible and make scene and it’s very beautiful 😊
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Sure, for a native speaker.
@@elena79rus For native speakers, *spoken* Arabic is easy. I can guarantee that most Arabs don't understand it's grammar perfectly.. the grammar especially is really hard.
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For native speakers? Of course it will be easy for them! 😂
@@a.i5121 But mojority of native speaker don't understand poesy.
Ebtehal Al-Subaie not bad just gotta get some grammar and vocab haha
One thing ilike about the way you speak a foreign language is that there are no traces of your british english there for its a great way to speak and blend молодец!!
To be fair, this question should be ask the people who start to learn both languages, if some one was learned one of it, it should be “learned” and think easy of it.