Learning Arabic or Japanese? 1010 Responses

Last post: 4 months ago | Thread started: Jul 24, 08, 12:33 p.m.

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• ismith

  Any native English speakers here have experience learning either of these two languages? I'm just wondering what the difference in learning curve is between speaking it and writing, and if there are any good resources for learning more technical terms in either of these languages.

  Jul 24, 08, 12:33 p.m. – Permalink

• madirish

  Arabic, hands down.

  Also, i would learn Mandarin before Japanese.

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 12:34 p.m. – Permalink

• Llyod

  think about it...who would you rather know..arabs or japs? pretty much a no brainer

  • are you sure you aren't a troll?– ribit1/3

    I'm just a bigot– Llyod2/3

    oh, cool..– ribit3/3

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 12:34 p.m. – Permalink

• Llyod

  it takes 10 years to become fluent in japanese

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 12:35 p.m. – Permalink

• dog_opus

  I'd go with Japanese myself, but I do love how Arabic looks written.

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 12:35 p.m. – Permalink

• VectorMasked

  ha! lol. Forget about it. Writing Japanese is a fucking annoying nightmare. I gave up once I was starting to make coherent sentences.

  I say stick to a western language otherwise you'll just give up with those Asian languages.

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 12:36 p.m. – Permalink

• mrdobolina

  I can read about ten words in japanese and can speak and understand about 50 phrases, mostly they are related to trains and beer.

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 12:37 p.m. – Permalink

• e-pill

  i understand full arabic and a lil of japanese.

  • Irasshaimase!– mrdobolina

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 12:38 p.m. – Permalink

• ismith

  My only motivation for Arabic is because I love the look of the script, but Japanese would be much more useful IMO.

  • that's odd– horton

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 12:39 p.m. – Permalink

• ninjasavant

  Took japanese in college and lived in Abu Dhabi. I'd say the learning curve is pretty steep and you have to keep up on it. I'd say they're equally hard because you have to learn how to read in different directions for both and neither of them us an alphabet you would be familiar with. Both also have vague similarities between the characters but I think arabic has a smaller character set.

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 1:12 p.m. – Permalink

• Llyod

  japanese doesn't really use an alphabet

  • They use syllabaries.
    …but do tell us more.– VectorMasked

  

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  Dog-earJul 24, 08, 1:43 p.m. – Permalink