I really need to try to learn Arabic one of these days, it seems like such a useful language and I have always been really interested. There’s too many languages I want to learn though and I might be hitting critical mass on that front.
Plus how can you go wrong with learning a language that has sayings like that.
I am put off Arabic, partly by my inborn hatred of Semitic languages, partly by the impossibility of getting anywhere, without considerable expenditure of time, in so extensive a language — one which has 4,000 roots and goes back over 2,000-3,000 years. By comparison, Persian is absolute child’s play. Were it not for that damned Arabic alphabet in which every half dozen letters looks like every other half dozen and the vowels are not written, I would undertake to learn the entire grammar within 48 hours.
Languages are the one thing I tend to be fairly good at, but I have also never studied any Afroasiatic languages before. Could be fun, even if a challenge. Assuming I am not getting too old for such undertakings.
I really need to try to learn Arabic one of these days, it seems like such a useful language and I have always been really interested. There’s too many languages I want to learn though and I might be hitting critical mass on that front.
Plus how can you go wrong with learning a language that has sayings like that.
Good luck, Engels found it challenging:
https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1853/letters/53_06_06.htm
Languages are the one thing I tend to be fairly good at, but I have also never studied any Afroasiatic languages before. Could be fun, even if a challenge. Assuming I am not getting too old for such undertakings.
Djeezus Engels you madman. The entire grammar in 48 hours.