For those cultivated in European atmospheres and brought up in an English speaking environment, this one is a particularly hard language to pick up. For one, it has much fewer words that resemble anything they've heard before and for another it uses very few vowels, making it extremely difficult to read. The next challenge is the scrip since most letters have 4 different forms, depending on where they stand in the word.
Besides this Arabic is a VSO language meaning that the verb usually comes before the subject and object, a rule most aren't used to, besides having a dual number! This means that nouns and verb must be learned in the singular, dual and plural. And finally (yes, there's still more!) the dialects only confuse Arabic virgins even more since it is spoken almost as differently as French would be from Spanish in different places.
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