Is Arabic Hard to Learn?

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Arabic can look and sound difficult, but is it really that hard to learn? In today’s video, I break down the Arabic language. You may be surprised to hear how easy it really is!

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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Is Arabic hard to learn?
0:44 The Writing System
2:03 Word Order
2:34 Pronouns
3:31 Pronunciation
5:24 How You Build Words
7:02 Plurals
7:40 Case Endings
8:27 No Vowels
9:49 Helpful Things
10:30 The Verdict

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  • @storylearning says:

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    • @11111mhmhmh says:

      10 minutes a day will not help in any languages especially Arabic.. very few western people learn it.. I’m one of the few 🙂
      Thousand and thousands of hours ..not minutes

  • @darioshub says:

    انا كرواتي و أدرس العربية و آدابها. العربية هي لغة صعبة و رائعة و جميلة في نفس الوقت. تحياتي!

  • @ruralsquirrel5158 says:

    Like learning any language, you must have a long-term motivating factor to push you through, and especially with the “hard” languages like Arabic, Mandarin, or Japanese. I find many English speakers just breeze through languages like Spanish or French, because they are so related, but totally different languages need heavy motivation.

  • @xxtentacionfan990.. says:

    I’ll learn arabic but not now and its a great idea that i watch videos about every language and i only can speak english at b2 and native hungarian

  • @atrumluminarium says:

    As a Maltese native speaker, this is bringing so much primary school Maltese lesson flashbacks 😅

  • @omsofi1111 says:

    All fun and games untill 200BC arabic poetry shows up

    • @SkipEditing says:

      😂😂😂

    • @shenoudaesam1471 says:

      oh boy , this comment kinda made me remember the living hell i had to go through trying to read this stuff at school and it’s no like i’m stranger to the language ,quite the opposite , i am egyptian so this is my native language

    • @omsofi1111 says:

      @@shenoudaesam1471 ١٢ بيت ١٠ قصائد 💀💀

    • @inamurrahmansir9471 says:

      Arabic was not in its current form during the time of 200 BCE. Classical Arabic started to develop in the 5th century, although different dialects and versions of Arabic have been present since much earlier. The early forms of Arabic were influenced by scripts like Nabatean and languages such as Sabaean, which played a key role in shaping the Arabic language and writing system.

      Before the Revelation of the Quran, Arabic consisted of many different dialects rather than a single language. Modern Standard Arabic, which is based on the Quran, has borrowed many words from foreign languages. Additionally, Arabic has had a significant influence on languages worldwide, including Spanish and Indonesian.

    • @omsofi1111 says:

      @@inamurrahmansir9471 اي اعرف

  • @Rayene-k8s says:

    It’s wonderful how non native arabic speakers are describing our beautiful language.. everyone, I’d like to motivate those are studying our amazing language .. it may be hard at the beginning but after you get used to the language it will be your best decision you ever took! لا تستسلموا أبداً! ❤I’m learning german and have found cases interesting to me that Akk Dativ genitiv e.tc Is a piece of cake 😁

    • @jonathanlange1339 says:

      So german is easy compared to arabic dialects?

    • @Rayene-k8s says:

      @@jonathanlange1339 not at all, german what makes it unique to other languages is that they don’t have many tenses such in french or english and this is a benefit for us learners, arabic dialects isn’t as pure as the Standard arabic so like you’re learning the street language if you know the standard arabic that’s awesome but in order to communicate with people you need a dialect even we can understand arabic fusha however having the standard arabic with a dialect much spoken such egyptian. or whatever and one from the northern african countries is pretty good in short dialects are easy to learn while german take a while to master the basics!

    • @jonathanlange1339 says:

      @@Rayene-k8s
      I think there are 7 tenses in german (if you count future tenses to it)? But used in speech only 4 or so. But still in french or english it’s way more for sure.

      Anyways. Maybe I want to learn lebanese. Do you know how much easier it is to learn compared to MSA? And wil I be able to understand other dialects without a problem? And how big of a deal is it if I don’t use dual forms to adress two people but instead use the normal plural form? Will it sound weird or unpolite? I’m just curious.

    • @Rayene-k8s says:

      @@jonathanlange1339 you’ve got it right! while german has several tenses, not all are used in daily speech while french and english have more.. as for learning lebanese arabic compared to (MSA) Modern standard arabic I guess is easier for conversational purposes.. Msa is more formal and used in writing and formal settings across the Arab world … regarding understanding other dialects by learning lebanese itself.. you’ll likely be able to understand other levantine countries such «syria, palestine, jordan etc.. however it might be trickier with distinct dialects such egyptian or gulf dialects or even north african countries such Algerian dialect which you need to be exposed to these dialects but repeating that it’s not that hard for dialects since you have a good basis in MSA and one dialect such lebanese.. as for the dual form it’s completely normal if not using it since many native arabic use them less and it is not rude or impolite for not addressing two people.. in general Arabic MSA is the base once you master it then it’s a good idea to move to a dialect and then go deeper in other dialects which are almost the same and you can understand us just for catching some new word which you’ll learn with additional exposure as we love who learn our language and appreciate that so much.. I hope one day to master german deutsch
      Deutsch liegt mir am Herzen.”♥

    • @AbdulMuhammad-mh7eg says:

      انا عربي من الغرب، لا عرف بزف العربية

  • @homyce says:

    Am a native Arabic speaker, and honestly I have no idea how non-Arabs manage to learn the language. It’s incredibly difficult!

  • @AmyBalot says:

    It just takes a little longer because of the grammar differences and having fewer cognates, but it is rewarding and a lot of fun. I am watching Libyan TV dramas on YouTube right now as a supplement and to understand dialects better, after studying MSA for a while.

  • @bokshil says:

    As an Arab I appreciate the ones who tries to learn Arabic but I was astonished by few Westerns not sure if they were Americans.. who not only learned Arabic to fluency.. they learned Arabic literature and poetry in the old classic form not the modern one .. they really learned Arabic better than today’s Arabs .. their video is still on YouTube

  • @anarchist_parable says:

    Learning other languages taught me how much we take English for granted and how we have some difficult grammar ourselves. Like I actually find the dots that tell you the pronunciation easier than some English words where silent consonants change the sound of the vowels. Language is cool ❤

  • @tompeled6193 says:

    4:27 Only with the harakat. Without the harakat, guessing the pronunciation from the spelling is difficult.

  • @Dimitra.Saltou says:

    I would prefer a book about Greenlandic language! Short stories!!

  • @Cyclonus2377 says:

    Interestingly enough, Cyrillic has 33 letters. *More* than Arabic.

    Also, most of the letters in the Cyrillic writing system is based on the Greek and the Latin alphabet. With one *very* interesting exception: The letters ш and щ (“sh” and “shch,” respectively) are both based on the letter س (“sh”).

    Also, in Persian, which is a different language but which uses the Arabic script, the word for the number “six” is ۷ (“shesh”). While in Russian, it is шесть (“shest”). And in Ukrainian, it is шість (“shist”).

    It’s all so fascinating! 😃😃😃😃

  • @nimmira says:

    just to add some icing, probably the hard part of “dialects” is the overflowing usage of idioms and slang (many of which sometimes cannot be traced back clearly, but people still use them). Believe it or not, some expressions or slang were derived from TV shows and plays and somewhat became like a mainstream thing (talk about pre-internet memes)

  • @Jason-c1b3r says:

    As far as languages not using Latin letters is concerned, Arabic is my favorite to write.

  • @jamesmcmillen5268 says:

    Jazz piano is hard. What you are doing is several levels of degree more difficult. Kudos!

  • @corinna007 says:

    I’ve asked this more than once already, but please make a dedicated video about Finnish. It doesn’t get nearly as much love as it deserves.

  • @Sarah-ni2bu says:

    Very useful information. I suggest you talk more about Arabic dialects. I always advise those who are interested in learning conversational Arabic to choose the Egyptian dialect. It is one of the easiest dialects, it sounds beautiful and it’s widely understood by almost all Arabic speaking countries.

  • @Relaxihub says:

    As an Arab myself, I still struggle with it sometimes 🙂

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