Language

Language

There is a lot of different language in the whole world. My first language is Arabic. Also, learning second language is beneficial. Learning second language like English it will make you more knowledgeable in your life. There are many differences between Arabic language and English language. For example, Arabic language has 28 letters and no short vowels; although, it has 8 vowel phonemes and 28 consonant phonemes. Because of this, Arabic is a consonant-heavy language, but English language has only 26 letters, with 24 consonant phonemes and 22 vowel phonemes. The Arabic script written and read from right to left and written in cursive, but in English script written from left to right. Also, There are no capital letters in Arabic in any situation beside English sentence it has to begin with capital letter. Learning the second language hard for some people. For instance, people who don’t know about the differences between the two languages. There are some differences in the grammar for both Arabic and English languages. In the Arabic language there are no verb to be in the present tense. For example, they may say, where he going? Without using is. The similarity between Arabic and English languages is that they have several styles and strategy in the writing. Learning Arabic language is very difficult for most of people because they need to learn different kind of writing, reading and the most harder is speaking. To learn how to speak Arabic may take years to learn. But, learn how to speak English maybe it won’t take a couple years to be fluent at.