Should I learn Arabic or Spanish?!

Anonymous #1

I like Spanish songs and the sound of Spanish. But I can read Arabic....

Reply 1

AzureCeleste

Spanish is probably more useful for the future.

What's this for? Just for fun or for a qualifcation

Reply 2

Wolfram Alpha

Arabic is really difficult in comparison to Spanish but I would say more useful and a more beautiful sounding language.

Reply 3

Anonymous #1

Original post by AzureCeleste

Spanish is probably more useful for the future.

What's this for? Just for fun or for a qualifcation

For fun tbh. I want to learn both to be honest... but during Summer I want to learn one or the other.
I will become a Dietitain in the future so any language would be beneficial really as u come across different ppl

Reply 4

nyxnko_

Dietician* :tongue:

Go with Arabic. Spanish is overrated :tongue:

Or just learn Arabic this summer, work on it for a year and then learn Spanish next summer.

Reply 5

username1339858_

If you aren't already familiar with the Arabic letters, start of with Spanish.

Reply 6

Sir P.Ennis

Original post by Wolfram Alpha

Arabic is really difficult in comparison to Spanish but I would say more useful and a more beautiful sounding language.

Huh no.

Spanish is far more beautiful than Arabic.

Reply 7

x_captaindank_x

if u can read it it u would want to finih the job by learning how to speak it

Reply 8

Wolfram Alpha

Original post by Sir P.Ennis

Huh no.

Spanish is far more beautiful than Arabic.

It's quite subjective.

Reply 9

MilleniumAngel

Arabic is difficult in my opinion. I've heard it all my life and still have broken Arabic.
Spanish is supposedly very easy, so is more realistic to learn a lot over the Summer.

That being said, I think that, if you were to commit yourself to Arabic, it would be more rewarding, as you can speak with way more people and the culture is more different.

(And yes, Arabic does sound nicer in my opinion (depending on the dialect), not that Spanish isn't nice itself or anything.)

Reply 10

The_Icy_One

It may actually be feasible to learn them both at once, there's a not insignificant amount of overlapping vocabulary, and the languages are different enough that you would be able to avoid confusing them.

Reply 11

Anonymous #1

Original post by The_Icy_One

You think so? I am sure it is best to focus on one language at a time tbh

Original post by MilleniumAngel

Nice!

Original post by x_captaindank_x

if u can read it it u would want to finih the job by learning how to speak it

Yeah I can read it but I do not understand it lol

Original post by Sir P.Ennis

Huh no.

Spanish is far more beautiful than Arabic.

Depends xx

Hmmm

Original post by nyxnko_

Dietician* :tongue:

Go with Arabic. Spanish is overrated :tongue:

Or just learn Arabic this summer, work on it for a year and then learn Spanish next summer.

Ahaha it can be spelt both ways but in the UK it is spelt as Dietitian :wink:

xx
Hm sounds goood

Reply 12

The_Icy_One

Original post by Anonymous

You think so? I am sure it is best to focus on one language at a time tbh

It really depends on how much else you plan to do in the timeframe, for example I'm planning to learn Russian and Farsi (Persian language with some similarities to Arabic) over this summer, although I don't expect I'll get past ~GCSE level standard in that time.

Reply 13

princess770

learn Arabic as it's really beautiful language

Reply 14

MongoDB

Arabic is less useful to learn than you'd think. The dialects vary so widely from each other and from standard arabic (which is usually only spoken on a daily basis by academics) that many of them are not even mutually intelligible.

From what I've heard and read, English is the language of business in the prosperous Gulf states, and French is the language of business in most of North Africa.