I started learning Arabic. I've been thinking about it for a long time but this year I really got obsessed with Arabic music and finally I signed up to a course. I've had two lessons so far and I'm now thinking I'm being crazy that I made this decision, haha. But I hope for the best. Wish me luck:P
Do you learn any languages?
Cool the clips were different, and no I have never learnt another language although I wish I had but such is life..........
ReplyDeleteIt's never too late to learn;) Anyway, I'm glad you liked the songs:)
DeleteYou're so brave to start learning Arabic! Once I had a classmate from Egypt, and she wrote me some sentences in Arabic for me. Wooooo, that was so different and seemed so difficult!! I gave up with the first one word. lol When I was studying in Canada, I took one year course of French, but that was a wrong decision-learning French (my 3rd language) in English (my second language) was such a mess! lol I got confused with two langauges as they sometimes look similar. Maybe I should re-start learning French now in Japanese. :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think it's better to learn a foreign language in your native one, at least in the beginning when you need to have everything clearly explained:)
DeleteHello!
ReplyDeleteI speak (more or less) six languages. So... yes: I'm a little crazy about languages!
I've been learning Arabic for six years. Now I'm able to speak in modern standard Arabic, as I said, more or less. Arabic is a demanding language to learn, very funny in the beginning and very hard in teh second stage 8when you realize that reading is so difficult). But don't give up. After some hours of hard study, it's pasionating.
I'm glad to read that we share two passions: mail and Arabic!
Wow, 6 languages, that's impressive! I can speak 3 (Polish of course:P, English and Spanish) plus a little bit of Russian. I love learning languages too:) I thought I would get such responses actually because I think snail mail people like words and languages:) I know it's very hard to read Arabic:S But I can already write after just 2 lessons and some self practise so I've good feeling about it:) I won't give up, haha.
DeleteGood luck with your Arabic studies! Sounds a difficult but interesting language :)
ReplyDeleteAs for me I'm teaching myself Norwegian for one year or so, and I've just begun to take Swedish lessons. I love languages and I think I'll never speak enough! :D
Thanks:) Good luck with your Norwegian and Swedish... don't you get them mixed up?:P They actually seem more difficult to me because they sound similar to German and I didn't manage to learn that one:P
DeleteArabic is also a language that would interest me a lot to learn. The same goes for Russian. :) But since I don't even manage to refresh my Spanish, I guess I should not even think about learning another even much more complicated language. :)
ReplyDeleteMaybe Spanish was just not for you and other language is destined for you;P
DeleteThat's so exciting you're learning Arabic. Best of luck! I can't hold a conversation or read/write a letter in anything other than English, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty excited about it myself:) Thank you:)
DeleteWow :) Arabic could be very interesting, I guess. I'm learning english, french and spanish :) I'm thinking about italian too :)
ReplyDeleteItalian sounds lovely:) And it might be easier to learn when you know French and Spanish.
DeleteI wanted to learn Farsi (Persian, which seems more easy to me than Arabic, as Persian is an Indo-european language) and know the alphabet more or less. But.. one has to have discipline to study, and to rehearse the things once learnt.. And because of lack of time (partly caused by snail-mailing :-) I still don't know this language, only some basic words.
ReplyDeleteThe alphabet isn't as hard as I thought it would be, because the letters are one-to-one transferable into latin letters (like Cyrillic, and in contrast with Chinese). For instance the alef ('a') looks like an 'I', and the re (r) looks like a j without point, while the j with point in Persian (and Arabic) is the ze ('z'). I love to 'discover' words, I guess you would be able to understand the following two words, too (well, the پ ('p') doesn't exist in Arabic, that's ب, I am told), رستوران and سوپرمارکت :-)
An other language which is high on my wish-list is Esperanto! Developed by a Polish doctor! I wished everyone in the world would have learned this language besides their native language, so that the country borders would disappear. But alas Esperanto still didn't become that wide-spread as I hoped for..
And I would love to learn Brazilian-Portuguese, because this language sounds like music. For the same reasons I didn't get to learn more so far than a few basis words..
So now I only use some other languages in my snail mail (helped by google-translate, although we have to use it cautiously because sometimes funny or curious translations appear :-)
The languages I 'really' learned so far: Dutch (my native language), English and Spanish, and at school some basic French and German.
Maybe Persian will be the next step. Now I have a friend who is learning Persian, and I feel like having some knowledge of this language.
DeleteI also wanted to learn Basque, the oldest language in Europe!
But first I should fix my Arabic and learn some dialectal Moroccan Arabic! :)
Did I say I'm a bit crazy about languages? :P
It was actually a hard decicion to me wether to choose Arabic or Persian. Persian sounds more beautiful to me and as you said it's an indo-european language, so probably easier for us to learn. But Arabic is more widespread and beautiful as well so in the end I chose this one. But Persian is next on my list:)
ReplyDeleteEsperanto is a geniuine idea but not much people speak it really so I don't see it really useful... but as I say, the language doesn't need to be useful to learn it, you just need to like it's sound:)
Portuguese sounds nice to me too:) Maybe in some (far away I'm afraid) future:) Uh oh, I don't trust google translate either.
Basque is very difficult, isn't it? Ooh, dialectal Arabic, long way to go before me;_;
Well, good luck with your languages girls^^ I read an article about a man knowing 36 languages. Maybe we can do it too;P
Wow, 36 languages, that's an incredible lot!!
ReplyDeleteI once 'met' a postcrosser (via a postcrossing card of course) who speaks 12 languages, www.postcrossing.com/user/Budz888 , which already seems so admirable!
And I admire both of you: Arabic (both modern standard Arabic as the Arabic spoken in and within each Arabic-speaking country) seems a real challenge!