Learning the Arabic language

[86 IROC-Z]

I need to take a foreign language to fulfill my degree requirements. Does anyone have experience with Arabic? To give some insight into how hard the language be to learn and grasp for someone like myself, a native English speaker with minimal experience in a handful of other languages? By all means I realize it will be no walk in the park, but I've always been interested in the language and feel it will be very useful for future career aspirations.

[infantryws6]

I had some training in it. It seems to work better when you are carrying a gun and screaming. The locals always seemed to listen better when there is a gun pointed at them

[Mr. Luos]

What the fuck degree are you getting?
Call that John Scherer guy.

[cammed goat]

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IROC gets shot by returning veterans mistaking him for an unfriendly while he speaks Arabic.

[86 IROC-Z]

I had some training in it. It seems to work better when you are carrying a gun and screaming. The locals always seemed to listen better when there is a gun pointed at them

Was it hard getting used to reading right to left?

What the fuck degree are you getting?
Call that John Scherer guy.

Biology.
I'd probably rather try out Rosetta Stone than that guy

[infantryws6]

Was it hard getting used to reading right to left?

No my interpreter was from Iraq, he didn't seem to have any problems

[86 IROC-Z]

Next up:

IROC gets shot by returning veterans mistaking him for an unfriendly while he speaks Arabic.

No my interpreter was from Iraq, he didn't seem to have any problems

ah ok

[infantryws6]

I will give my Arabic another try here soon and let you know how it works out this trip to Iraq.

[third_shift|studios]

derka derka derka!

[SiggyZ]

Rosetta Stone could be your friend.

[bluehawk2000]

From what I know just like every other language their is different dialects, people from egypt that speak arabic cant talk to people thats in Iraq cause its almost like their totally different languages, kinda like english their is usa english then their is uk english lol. And I am with infantry guy on this one ogof-stop pretty much the only one I know how to spell lol, I actually have a book with some phrases/words in arabic somewhere around here if its not already packed up. You also have to learn how to talk with the back of your throat its hard to explain. But you get the point I took some classes at the beginning of last year before I got here and I did not retain any of it except for stop and bitch lol.

[86 IROC-Z]

Rosetta Stone could be your friend.

Yeah, I've heard that it's a great program to learn languages with, but since I'm required to take a language for my degree, I figure I might as well take advantage of the well-versed professors for something that will useful.

From what I know just like every other language their is different dialects, people from egypt that speak arabic cant talk to people thats in Iraq cause its almost like their totally different languages, kinda like english their is usa english then their is uk english lol. And I am with infantry guy on this one ogof-stop pretty much the only one I know how to spell lol, I actually have a book with some phrases/words in arabic somewhere around here if its not already packed up. You also have to learn how to talk with the back of your throat its hard to explain. But you get the point I took some classes at the beginning of last year before I got here and I did not retain any of it except for stop and bitch lol.

I understand about the dialects, I was actually looking at maps last night that showed where the different ones are spoken.

Speaking of the UK - US English differences, when we first moved here my mother took the car to a car wash (One of the gas station automatic ones) and asked the attendant for "a spanner to remove the ariel." It took about 10 minutes of explaining for the attendant to figure out she needed a wrench to remove the antenna

[Lqdsilver]

Idk the bit I learned is confusing, numbers and letters as written in "English"
only thing I remember is 3eri fek ga7ba. Which would be "fuck you bitch"
strange things get learned in the world of mmorpgs =\

[Modulistic]

I hate that rosetta stone bitch

[third_shift|studios]

I hate that rosetta stone bitch

so there IS a catch

[bigrondownhiller]

Go for Latin. It can be used to figure out many languages that evolved from it.

[Smkn_TA]

German is the closest to english. I learned that so easy it was insane.