Including your native tongue, how many languages do you speak well enough to read a newspaper or have a conversation with another person in that language?
(Please consider multiple dialects of the same language that can be mutually understood as one language, whereas those that cannot be mutually understood -- such as Cantonese and Mandarin -- count as two languages.)
I speak only English as a second language, and slightly German. I would want to learn Arabic, Russian, and Japanese also..One from west, one from south , one from north and one from east.
Uncle woodrow what made u learn the maroccan accent, out of all the arabic accents? Not that there is anything wrong with maroccan way but am just curious
I used to live in Maroc and attended the University of Rabat for the purpose of learning conversational Arabic.
And as for the onewho fears standing in front of His Lord and restrainsthe soul from impure evil desires and lusts, verily, Paradise will be his abode [79:40-41]
3 for me. English, Urdu and Hindi.
But when it comes to reading, add Arabic to the list And a bit of gujarati and Telugu[local language]
Yeah but isn't spoken Urdu and Hindi basically the same? I mean speakers of both can perfectly understand each other.
‘Say: If the ocean were ink wherewith to write out the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted, even if We added another ocean like it.’~Al Qu'raan (18:109)
Gujrati - Read, write, can understand spoken Gujrati but cant converse too well.
Arabic - Read, write, can converse a litte but very basic.
WassalamuAlaykum
P.S Bangla is on the list insha'Allah soon
Wow... I wish I could say that. I can for English and Arabic (read, write and converse very basically). And Urdu- conversing only. How can you read Urdu? It's impossible! Can't do it without harakaat (as you have in Arabic).
‘Say: If the ocean were ink wherewith to write out the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted, even if We added another ocean like it.’~Al Qu'raan (18:109)
true but afrikaans has some (way)different grammar as dutch
And as for the onewho fears standing in front of His Lord and restrainsthe soul from impure evil desires and lusts, verily, Paradise will be his abode [79:40-41]
You can speak Hebrew? I suppose it's not that different from Arabic?
‘Say: If the ocean were ink wherewith to write out the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted, even if We added another ocean like it.’~Al Qu'raan (18:109)
not exactly,but there is so many words that similar to that in Arabic cause both of em semitic lang.
btw, Hebrew is easy to learn begin from its vecabulary to its grammar.
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Our prophet (pbuh) said: “Haya does not bring anything except good.”
My first language is Penangite (it's like a Malay language + English + Hokkien + Arabic + Tamil)... and it's considered as a dialect of Malaysian Language....
I also can speak and write in English and Arabic (but my English is way better than my Arabic)...
I also have no problem with Indonesian Language, the differences between Malaysian and Indonesian is like between Italian and Spanish...
Arabic- my native language
French- I use it more than arabic (all my courses are in french).
English
Italian ( not as fluently as english and french)
I'm currently learning german.
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