Learning Arabic, Farsi and Urdu...?

Question

Arabic, most spoken in Iraq, Urdu, most spoken in Pakistan, and Farsi (persian) most spoken in Afghanistan. I would love to learn all three of these languages, I am always interested in middle eastern culture, and the languages are so beautiful. However, some say it will be much too hard, however my Pakistani friend told me if you know Urdu, it will make Arabic easier, and Arabic makes Farsi easier. I was just interested to hear anyone's (anyone with experience?) opinion. What if my time was dedicated to just learning these languages and nothing else? Is two years enough?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Arabic is spoken in the whole of the arabic world, thats ranging from syria, lebanon, yemen, oman, jordan, saudi, UAE, bahrain, kuwait, palestine, bahrain, egypt, algeria, sudan, tunisia, morocco and others! not just iraq. and iraqi arabic is very different from all the rest! and probably not the best arabic to learn because it is so different from the other forms (what i mean is each region has their own form, be it lebanon, palestine, syria and jordan or the north african maghreb arabic)... i personally would go for egyptian or levantine (lebanon, syria, palestine, jordan) arabic because it is the most bog standard i believe, as opposed to iraqi, gulf or north african. It is a very difficult language, especially if you are starting from scratch. I am Palestinian and my husband is Iraqi and I struggle to understand his pronounciation and accent!



To clear things up, arabic does not make persian easier. they are both very different languages from 2 very very different cultures. they may share the odd same word (apart from the religious terms persians use, which are of course arabic) and the same alphabet but persian has letters arabic doesn't, and the whole structure of the words and language are different. The same with urdu. Completely different from arabic! not even the slightest bit similar!



To learn these languages it depends on you, are you living near/with anyone speaking these languages or in a country that speaks the language? if not it could take a long time. they are all difficult languages to learn. I'd say even if you dedicated time just to doing so, learning them could take a while.



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Answer 2

You are of course joking. Arabic is a Semitic language, mostly spoken by Arabs (Iraq, Syria, Jordan and the Arabian peninsula). Urdu is spoken in many parts of Pakistan, it is basically Hindi written in Arabic script - don't kill me, a Muslim Pakistani told me that! Farsi is the same as Persian, it is an Indo-Persian language, varieties of which are spoken by the Kurdish people and some Afghans. Mostly spoken in Iran (formerly Persia). Since Urdu and Farsi are both derivatives of Sanskrit and use the Arabic alphabet, I can see some connection there, but apart from the alphabet I can't see anyway that learning Arabic would help you learn Farsi. Two years is not enough for all three!

Answer 3

You are of course joking. Arabic is a Semitic language, mostly spoken by Arabs (Iraq, Syria, Jordan and the Arabian peninsula). Urdu is spoken in many parts of Pakistan, it is basically Hindi written in Arabic script - don't kill me, a Muslim Pakistani told me that!

Farsi is the same as Persian, it is an Indo-Persian language, varieties of which are spoken by the Kurdish people and some Afghans. Mostly spoken in Iran (formerly Persia).

Since Urdu and Farsi are both derivatives of Sanskrit and use the Arabic alphabet, I can see some connection there, but apart from the alphabet I can't see anyway that learning Arabic would help you learn Farsi.

Two years is not enough for all three!

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Answer 5

Dear

Persian is spoken mostly in Iran. Afghanistan has Pushtu and Dari languages.

All three languages are different. Arabic is a pure language. Persian is also a pure language with Very few arabic words. urdu is generated from both Arabic and persian languages. If you learn Urdu you will have a base to learn other 2 languages.

Answer 6

They use the same alphabet which is why once you learn the orthography then you should be okay. I learn to read and write urdu after i had actually learnt how to read and pronounce arabic which made it easier. Arabic is most definitely the hardest out of the three and when you learn it at a degree level it is very intense because its grammar is very rich especially when it comes to learning about its case. Also the pronunciation in urdu is more relaxed than it is with arabic. And i would say farsi is in between.



I think you should learn the hardest first (which would be arabic)...then urdu and pushto...and it is possible if you dedicate your time to it.

Answer 7

Those three languages use pretty much the same alphabet, but they are just a few extra in urdu and farsi. Also, there are similarites in words between arabic and urdu. If you learn one really well you should be able to learn the others easier, but im not sure how long it would take.

Answer 8

Hi, I'm originally from Pakistan (but i lived in South africa for 6 years and have been living here in england for about 7 yrs) and i'm 13 y/o. My family and all know Urdu as their first lang. but mine is english so recently i started having classes so i can take it for GCSE. of course everyone speaking it in my house most of the time, i understand pretty much everything but im not too good at writing or speaking.



So this guy comes around once a week for an hour and teaches my bro and me urdu. according to him, we would be able to do up to gcse standard in about a year easily, so 2 years for you would get you pretty much fluent ! i would suggest starting by learning the alphabet and combinations of letters and which sounds they make and all, and then start reading like urdu books for little kids and practice your writing by just first doing individual letters and then move onto 2 or 3 letters joined and then build up a word and sentences etc. until you can write like a paragraph and just keep practicing!



Good luck hope that helps =]

Answer 9

Well Urdu and Arabic are completely different aren't they.?( but used by Muslims) Your mate seems to knows what he/she is talking about, but it depends on your ability to pick up languages, some have it some don't. And then you have the problem of which Arabic you go for. Egyptian is spoken/understood by the mass but if you are in the Gulf they won't understand you.

Two years isn't that long to get this issue sorted..could you begin by thinking about exactly where (which country) has your priority.And start with that language?

Answer 10

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Answer 12

Why don't you add Hindi to the list. Hindi is similar to Farsi and Urdu as well. Is it because India is not counted as the middle east - well neither is Pakistan part of middle east..

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Answer 14

Its pashto/Pashtu and Farsi thats mainly spoken in Afghanistan... Also the northern part of pakistan is a mainly pashtu speaking area ...



Why dont u just tackle one language at a time and see how it goes with the one ?



*edit* also different areas have different dialects ...

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