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YES - and no. Learning Arabic certainly takes time and practice, but there are not many irregularities in the grammar. It's much less complicated than Latin, and probably simpler than German, too.

If you speak a European language, the root system of Arabic is an unfamiliar concept. Arabic words are constructed from three-letter "roots" which convey a basic idea. For example, k-t-b conveys the idea of writing. Addition of other letters before, between and after the root letters produces many associated words: not only "write" but also "book", "office", "library", and "author".

Learning vocabulary may cause problems at first. In most European languages there are many words which resemble those in English. Arabic has very few, but it becomes easier once you have memorised a few roots.

Arabic has many regional dialects, and if you want to master one of these the only really effective way is to spend a few years in the place of your choice. For general purposes – such as reading or listening to radio - it's best to concentrate on Modern Standard Arabic (numerous courses and textbooks are available). This would also be useful if you're interested in Islam, though you would need some additional religious vocabulary.

There are 28 consonants and three vowels – a, i, u – which can be short or long. Some of the sounds are unique to Arabic and difficult for foreigners to pronounce exactly, though you should be able to make yourself understood.

The normal word order of a sentence is verb/subject/object. The function of nouns in a sentence can also be distinguished by case-endings (marks above the last letter of a word) but these are usually found only in the Qur'an or school textbooks.

Feminine nouns add the suffix …aat to form the plural but masculine nouns generally have a "broken" plural which involves changing vowels in the middle of the word: kitaab ("book"); kutub ("books").

Arabic has very few irregular verbs and does not use "is" or "are" at all in the present tense: "the king good" means "the king is good". Subtle alterations in the basic meaning of a verb are made by adding to the root. These changes follow regular rules, giving ten possible "verb forms" (though in practice only three or four exist for most verbs. The root k-s-r produces:

• form I kasara, "he broke"

• form II kassara, "he smashed to bits"

• form VII inkasara, "it was broken up"

Sometimes these must be used with care: qAtala means "he fought" but qatala means "he killed".

taken from al-bab

Bahasa Arab (اللغة العربية al-lughah al-‘Arabīyyah), atau secara mudahnya Arab (عربي ‘Arabī), adalah sebuah bahasa Semitik yang muncul dari daerah yang sekarang termasuk wilayah Arab Saudi. Bahasa ini adalah sebuah bahasa yang terbesar dari segi jumlah penutur dalam keluarga bahasa Semitik. Bahasa ini berkerabat dekat dengan bahasa Ibrani dan bahasa Aram. Bahasa Arab Modern telah diklasifikasikan sebagai satu makrobahasa dengan 27 sub-bahasa dalam ISO 639-3. Bahasa-bahasa ini dituturkan di seluruh Dunia Arab, sedangkan Bahasa Arab Baku diketahui di seluruh Dunia Islam.

Bahasa Arab Modern berasal dari Bahasa Arab Klasik yang telah menjadi bahasa kesusasteraan dan bahasa liturgi Islam sejak lebih kurang abad ke-6. Abjad Arab ditulis dari kanan ke kiri.
Bahasa Arab telah memberi banyak kosakata kepada bahasa lain dari dunia Islam, sama seperti peranan Latin kepada kebanyakan bahasa Eropa. Semasa Abad Pertengahan bahasa Arab juga merupakan alat utama budaya, terutamanya dalam sains, matematik adan filsafah, yang menyebabkan banyak bahasa Eropa turut meminjam banyak kata darinya.

diambil dari wikipedia

Judul Kitab : الكامل في اللغة والأدب
Pengarang : المبرد

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