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Join Date: Apr 2005
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It's that time of year again when I have to sign up for classes, and for my language course I am torn between learning Persian (Farsi) and Arabic. What I want to know is; which language will be easier to keep up with after I'm finished taking courses in it? I know that I can get Al-Jazeera on TV which is a definite bonus, but I cannot think of any Iranian news channels or radio programs which I can access in order to keep myself exposed to the language.
Do any Arabic or Persian speakers have any insight? thanks.
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I don't speak either, so take this with a grain of salt. Farsi is ONLY spoken in Iran, I think you would get much more use out of Arabic. Particularly for government work right now, Arabic is in high demand.
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I have Farsi friends, and i actually studied Arabic(forced to since i lived there) till about year 8, ages ago. never used it, and probably never will(apart from swear words and some everyday phrases and greetings), since everyone speaks English anyway. it's interesting to learn the history of the lanuguage, but the acualy language is ...... well...blah. it's very different from the romance languages(english, french, spanish, italian), so it's ratehr complicated to pick up.
Dont expect to understand AlJazeera anytime soon. i lived in the mideast for a long time, and it's still greek to me.
If i had the choice i'd have picked up spanish or italian instead, since i was doing french throughout anyway. I recommend french, since thats the other language ive come in contact with the most around the world apart from english of course....plus it's easy to get a hang of since English is based off of it.
As far as Farsi, it sounds cool(literally....very 'exotic'). not sure if the effort will serve any purpose auther than exploring the language though. In my opinion, if you dont have a VERY good reason to study a language, ull start wondering why you chose to when u start finding it hard.
Hope that helps.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Arabic is the language of a major world religion. Farsi, not so much. So Arabic is probably a bigger player internationally.
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Chuck
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Go with either one, they're both valuable for the time being.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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'huda' = sh*t
there you go, on your way to speaking Arabic
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