The Arabic Language - Maria Pakkala

Arabic has a reputation for being one of the world's hardest languages mainly because of its diglossic nature i.e., the fact that Arabic speaking people use a standard variant in formal situations and their mother tongue, which is usually not a written variant, in their daily life. I argue that Arabic, just like any other language, can be acquired fairly easily provided one uses the proper strategies and makes use of the wide varieties of possibilities available today. In my presentation, I will answer questions such as which variant should one learn and why? How intelligible are Arabic variants? When should one learn Modern Standard Arabic? How easy is it to learn Arabic after other semitic languages? Where should one go to study Arabic? Etc.

[@foros1999]

Thanks for this interesting presentation!

[@Kielimies]

15:06 It's a pity that long vowels were not transcribed in the MSA phrase.