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Murtaza Hussain
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I started learning Arabic this year and itās truly the most insane language Iāve ever attempted learning. I can speak good Urdu, Turkish, and Persian and my French is fine with practice. I decided to learn Arabic after spending time in Saudi Arabia earlier in the year. I hate not knowing something and being unable to understand was getting on my nerves. I also felt I knew so many semi-adjacent languages so it should be no big problem. But this is an incredibly challenging language. I decided to learn Levantine dialect which is one of the easier and most elegant ones and it still mind-boggling. Part of the reason is that Arabic is incomprehensibly vast. For a single word there might easily be two dozen different terms. Not just every country but even individual cities and towns have different dialects. On top of that spoken and written Arabic are almost totally different languages! They say Arabic is the second hardest language after Mandarin. I rate that as likely true; but Iām going to keep going.
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Connor McCormick āļø
@nor
Whatās your learning method?ļæ¼
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Wrote something on that: https://mazmhussain.substack.com/p/how-to-teach-yourself-a-new-language
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TheModestThiefš©
@thief
I really like this tip: "Set an Hour Goal and Forget About What Happens in Between"
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Doing that rn
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