Do you think Hebrew is easier to learn than Arabic?
Which languague do you think is more difficult to learn, Hebrew or Arabic?
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You need to look at it relative to what you know. An Arabic speaker learning Hebrew would be like an English speaker learning Spanish; not too difficult, fairly easy grammar, easy to pronounce. On the other hand, a Hebrew speaker learning Arabic would find it as hard as an English speaker would to learn Russian or German. More complex alphabet, harder to pronounce, more complex grammar, not to mention once you’ve learnt the standard form of Arabic, you could only read magazines or watch the news, normal people in the street would struggle to understand you, and when they reply in their native dialects,you probably wouldn’t have a clue what they were on about.
The Arabic dialects can be as different as the European languages are from each other, but there isn’t really any way to counter this problem, for example, most Arabic speakers universally understand spoken Egyptian Arabic due to the film and TV industry. However, if you learn Egyptian Arabic, although you have a good chance at being understood by a fair amount of speakers across the Arabic speaking world, you wouldn’t be able to read signs, magazines, etc, you wouldn’t be able to watch the news, most TV shows etc. So, if you want to be both able to speak Arabic and be literate in it, you have to essentially learn to speak 2 related, but very different languages.
by: forgetyourrestraints_x
on: 10th March 08
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Arabic language is more difficult
Arabic is much more difficult to learn.
Yes Arabic is more difficult but more useful.
Well, I don’t speak either but I find Hebrew easier to read (in the sense of I can write yes and no in hebrew from watching American TV subtitled in hebrew and I can recognise these two words), whereas I have no idea whatsoever in Arabic, and I am half Arabic!! Hebrew writing seems easier to follow.
Arabic is more difficult.
The written language is nothing like the spoken language.
In Hebrew, the two are the same.
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You need to look at it relative to what you know. An Arabic speaker learning Hebrew would be like an English speaker learning Spanish; not too difficult, fairly easy grammar, easy to pronounce. On the other hand, a Hebrew speaker learning Arabic would find it as hard as an English speaker would to learn Russian or German. More complex alphabet, harder to pronounce, more complex grammar, not to mention once you’ve learnt the standard form of Arabic, you could only read magazines or watch the news, normal people in the street would struggle to understand you, and when they reply in their native dialects,you probably wouldn’t have a clue what they were on about.
The Arabic dialects can be as different as the European languages are from each other, but there isn’t really any way to counter this problem, for example, most Arabic speakers universally understand spoken Egyptian Arabic due to the film and TV industry. However, if you learn Egyptian Arabic, although you have a good chance at being understood by a fair amount of speakers across the Arabic speaking world, you wouldn’t be able to read signs, magazines, etc, you wouldn’t be able to watch the news, most TV shows etc. So, if you want to be both able to speak Arabic and be literate in it, you have to essentially learn to speak 2 related, but very different languages.
ABC is correct that Arabic is much more useful, because it is used in many countries whereas Hebrew is used in only 1. Cheers!
It is estimated that there are 246 million first-language speakers of all Arabic varieties. Of these, 206 million speak or understand Modern Standard Arabic as a second dialect.
Arabic is the official or co-official language of Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Mauritania, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. In addition to the Arab countries, in which Arabic speakers are concentrated, large numbers of Arabic speakers live in Iran and France (about 600,000 speakers each), and a substantial number of speakers live in Israel and parts of Africa ( Ethnologue).
Arabic is a Category III language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English
Hebrew is a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English
Arabic is more difficult.
As the other guys said, Arabic is more difficult but, if you speak one of these languages it would be very easy for you to learn the other because there is a lot of overlap.
Easy for whom?
It is easy for a Hebrew speaker to learn Arabic, and it is easy for an Arabic speaker to learn Hebrew.
The two languages are, after all, Semitic languages which share many cognates as well as a similar grammatical structure.
i speak both. hebrew is easier 4 2 reasons. 1: alot of words sound like enlish words like oh is or. also, modern words are the same like bunana is banana. otoboos is autobus.baloon is balona. leemone is lemon. arabic is hard cuz its a mix of alot of languages,