What is easier to learn Arabic, Mandarin Chinese or Japanese?

Answer 1

I studied all 3 (though mandarin was more informal and I invested less time in it), I think Arabic was the easiest. While Mandarin is arguably the easiest of the three gramatically, the tones are murder (at least they were for me). Although you basically have to learn 2 languages in Arabic, one for men the other for women, in Japanese there are four words for words like sister (my older, my younger, your older, your younger). And of course the arabic alphabet is infinitely easier than either Chinese or Japanese, I learned it in about a month and didn't even try to learn to read Chinese/Japanese.

Answer 2

Arabic has very difficult grammar. I don't know anything about Japanese. Mandarin is not that hard to learn to speak (probably the easiest grammar in the world - but the pronunciation is difficult at first) but very hard to learn to read. I've been studying it for five years. I'm pretty fluent at conversation but I am almost completely illiterate. There is a system called PinYin that aids you to know how to pronounce the characters though, and that's what makes it easy. I have found Mandarin much easier than French.

Answer 3

I would guess Japanese, as Mandarin Chinese is considered the most difficult language to learn and Arabic is hard to read.

Answer 4

That would depend entirely on the person. Arabic is written in letters, so even though it looks like scribbles to the untrained eye, I'm guessing it would be easier to learn to read than Chinese or Japanese simply because it has fewer letters to learn. I'm not sure about Arabic grammar, but I've heard you have to be very careful when speaking, especially about religion, to avoid using the wrong word and offending someone.
Japanese and Chinese, although they look similar on the surface, are very different.
Japanese uses about 2000 Chinese characters, all with muliple pronunciations plus two versions of their own phonetic system all together. The grammar is backwards when compared to English with the verb coming after the object, and the words "not", "must", and "want" are added as suffixes to the end of verbs. And it has several words similar to prepositions like subject and object markers that don't even exist in Enlish. However, Japanese is fairly simplistic in its pronunciation. (very similar to Spanish)
Chinese uses more characters (they don't have a set amount that you should learn, but if you learn the most basic 3000 you can read 99% of print media) , the grammar is much easier than Japanese. It's word order based like English, however there is no past tense. Whether the sentence is perceived as past or not depends on the situation. And the pronunciation is much harder than Japanese because it is tone sensative. (In English we use tones to denote questions, disapproval, curiosity etc. In Chinese, the same syllable said in a different tone can have a very different meaning). Pronunciation aside, I find Chinese much easier than Japanese

The point is, you don't choose a langue to study based on how easy it is. Hindi is from the same language family as English, albeit a very very distant cousin and may even be easier. You should study the one you think you would enjoy. I would suggest Japanese or Hindi because Japanese and Indians are much more fun to talk to than Brainwashed Chinese or devout Muslims who memorized the Quran. Heck, you could study Urdu (what they speak in Pakistan) and learn to communicate in Hindi (Hindi and Urdu are very similar only Hindi is written in Deva-nagari while Urdu is written similar to Arabic) and read Arabic.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Probably Arabic, even though its quite deep and hard

I'm ignorant about Chinese and Japanese but they look to be much harder with all the drawings and the hundreds of letters!

And Anyway arabic is a deeper and more importnat language nowadays (with all respect) cuz anyway its an official language of the UN.

Answer 7

If you want to learn Mandarin but you have no clue where to start off then a program for Mandarin is the ideal online course for the newbies simply because it really commences with the basis.

Answer 8

This depends a lot on you and your background. Japanese has the grammar that is most unlike English. Chinese has the pronunciation and writing systems that are most unlike English.

Answer 9

japanese isn't that hard. mandarin has those confusing tones and the arabic writing system is incomprehensible to me.

Answer 10

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