Yesterday I was telling my relatives about the "blogging" thing and that I started posting few things about "Arabic Language" and we discussed the difficulty of Arabic, I already wrote a post about this a week ago or so, but there an update to share!
A shocking update actually, I discovered that there are Arabs who can't read Arabic! they can speak English fluently but not Arabic as they think this is the "modern" way of living and there is no use of Arabic.
let me be honest, in my daily life I use English for about 50%.
that is a lot for an Arabic native speaker, but I work in an IT field and in my country this is very normal; even if I chose to talk in Arabic no one will figure out what do I mean -from an IT perspective-.
Arabic is difficult but there are levels, you can choose to learn the basics only or you can choose to learn more and go into further details it is totally up to you.
I am not saying that all Arabs must be Arabic experts but what am saying is that we must know the basics. have you ever met a Japanese person who doesn't know Japanese!
The language represents the culture and who you are, I think nobody should pretend to be someone else.
If Arabs only knew how beautiful and rich their language is!
This article is really good at explaining why Arabic is so difficult and the challenges it faces as a language:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/06/arabic.
My own recommendations would be that Arabs start speaking only MSA or classical Arabic at home and with each other. Dialect shouldn´t be used in movies, music, or any media for that matter. And lastly, Educate the children to read, write and speak MSA or classical Arabic from the time they are born, don´t wait until high school.