How does one starts learning Arabic? Let's say the objective is to be a translator or an interpret from Arabic to his native language. Is it better or more common to learn MSA (fusha) first, or to learn a specific dialect at first?
From my understanding, there are 6 main dialects of Arabic (Maghrebi, Egyptian, Sudanese, Gulf Arabic, Mesopotamian and Levant Arabic), but these can differ so much that Morrocan Darija for example would sound uninteligible to a Arabic speaker from Qatar.
What is the language used at the Arab League conferences? Do they use interprets like at the UN conferences or do they all speak Middle Standard Arabic? And how does MSA allow you to be understood, can the less educated people in regions understand it, or is it something that you may only use in big cities?
A vast and interesting culture, one of the oldest languages of the world, the language that has the largest vocabulary, one of the top 10 most spoken languages in the world, one of the six official languages of the UN, a major lingua franca in the Arab world, with over 400 million speakers, do I continue?
Levi Lee
Damn son that's a lot of versions
Jayden Wood
Learn Fus'ha, grammar and then learn a dialect if you want. All Arabs should understand Fus'ha.
Jaxson Turner
Cringe Levant Arabic is the easiest to pick up Don't bother learning Moroccan Arabic it also sounds ugly
Samuel Cooper
t. got beat up at school by moroccan jews
Brody Cooper
That's rough coming from a black guy
James Gonzalez
To become a translator you need to learn Al-Fusha, dialects are never written. Most people don't speak it very well though, unless they have to write it or speak it for their job(i.e journalist or diplomats). So if your desire is to interact with people you'll want to learn a dialect at some point, but it's always good to learn Fusha grammar and some vocabulary in the beginning which will help you learn dialects later.
