You are now aware that Arabic is the only language in which the metric perfection of Latin and Greek meet the euphony and rhyme of medieval and onwards poetry, and the only successor to those traditions in syntactical complexity. Why are you not learning Arabic?
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It's gay and stupid
brown people speak it
ALLAHU ACKBAR HAGHACKMAH ILLM LA AGHAKALLAH
Persian and Italian are better languages for poetry. Also, my native language is English and I am perfectly content with that tradition.
Agreed.
it's a waste of time to learn skills you don't stand to benefit from, and as a native english speaker, i have no earthly reason to ever learn a second language
The quran is the stupidest book, and it is written in arabic for a reason.
Hint: because a stupid book must be written in a stupid language.
Some muzzie told me that Arabic is a divine language because it has the most words out of any language
It's pretty hard to meaningfully count the number of words in a language. Do 'run', 'runs', 'running' and 'ran' count as separate words? What about 'dog' the noun and 'dog' the verb? What about terms only used by a handful of specialists? Or terms only used in a certain regional dialect?
Runs, running, and ran are all parts of a single lemma. It's not easy to quantify the size of different modern languages' lexica, but there are clearly some with very small lexica (Biblical Hebrew has only around 9,000 lemmata) and some with very large ones (Modern English, Modern Japanese, and Standard Arabic.)
What this has to do with the richness of the language itself is debatable, as obviously Biblical Hebrew is a language of immense value.
>Joseph Smith tier bowdlerization of Aramaic/Syriac non-trinitarian Christian/israeli source texts
It's hermenutically untenable and won't survive the century in combination with baked in geopolitical stresses coming down the pipeline.
لكنني الآن أدرس العربية. المشكلة هي اللغة هذه صعبة جداً، لا بد من أصرف وقتا كثيرا لأتعلمها
People who say this can never point to any concrete example besides the quran. And obviously the quran is not a real example because it's their sacred scripture, their claim of perfection and aesthetic beauty can be trusted no more than christians who say the bible is the most perfect book to ever exist.
Like, who's the arabic Dante, Shakespeare, or Goethe?
You've never heard of Al-Mutanabi?
The Mu'allaqat is also very famous in terms of pre-Islamic poetry.
Poetry doesn't translate well and Arabic belongs to a difficult cultural sphere so that's why most Westerners don't know much about it. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Ibn Hazm, Ibn Arabi
The Epistle of Forgiveness by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī is similiar to the Divine Comedy.
I'm not enough of a homosexual to care about le hecking epic aesthetics of a language. I'm learning Latin because I want to read things in Latin, that's literally it.
Do you have any tips for learning Arabic? I’ve tried but I just can’t do it. It’s such a tedious process to learn a language and sadly I have a terrible attention span and issues with commitment.
Clarify your objectives. Do you want to learn Arabic to order coffee in Ramallah or do you want to enjoy classical literature? If you want to read the classics the first thing you should do is master the script. Best way to do this is by practicing writing. If you have time to spare pick up a book on calligraphy and improve your handwriting whilst learning the script.
Arabic is one of those languages where morphology and syntax are very important. Treat Arabic as a highly modular language e.g. you can take a pronoun and add it to the end of a verb like a suffix, so if you've memorized the pronouns and know the verb forms you can save yourself a shit ton of time. Native reference grammars are often more helpful than Western text books. I'd recommend al-Ajrumiyyah (you can get an English version) as a handy guide.
Arabic is based around three to five letter radicals (usually three letters) and you can add or remove prefixes and suffixes or vowls and consonants to generate nouns and verbs, different tenses, make it interrogative etc. once you realize that stuff becomes a lot easier.
Who's the French Goethe or the German Walt Whitman? Where's the American Mishima? There's a huge ton of amazing classical Arabic literature. Even if your not religious, you can't deny the Quran in Arabic is amazingly written and excellent piece of literature with complex rhyming prose with an amazing rhythem to it. There's the Maqamat of al-Harir, the travelogues of Ibn Jubayr, the poems of Ibn al-Farid and al-Mutannabi, the philosophical prose of al-Ghazzali and Suhrawardi. Let's not forget Ibn Batutta's Rihla and the Khalilah wah Dimnah, and schlocky low brow fiction like the 1001 Nights. Arguably, Classical Arabic has more classic lit than English because it's been around longer and more people wrote and spoke it.
Arabic looks great but sounds awful
most language sounds okay when singing
hearing them talk is another story
Pretty much no one speaks standard Arabic except on TV. Everyone just speaks their own local languages and dialects.
which sounds all the same to non-arabic speakers
Europeans all sound and look the same to me. The loss of Latin as the lingua franca of Europe was a total disaster.
Not really, Lebanese Arabic is very distinct to Egyptian Arabic for example
Seppo moment
LOL its nice because its christian, listen to arabic ezan pls. im from turkey i get earrape daily from 3 different mosques in my neighborhood. what a beautiful language hehexd
Muslim Qur'an reading sounds like a parody of Orthodox chant - so nasal and abrasive
HAMALALALLAALLA ALALHAHL HAMALALALALLALAALAL HOMNDUOLLAH HAMAMALALLALALAAAALALA
what a beautiful language XDDDD
Anon, who is the Virgil tier poet of the arabic language? I've read only the medieval Gulistan and it was good, also an Averroes book De animae beatitudine.
>Why are you not learning Arabic?
Because I don't like streetshitters and camelpiss drinkers