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you're right ! and a little bit biased because pronunciation is important for all languages out there I see the same issue with french foreign speakers too. In
by smel 8y ago
you're right ! and a little bit biased because pronunciation is important for all languages out there I see the same issue with french foreign speakers too.
In Arabic pronunciation is straight forward, in english pronunciation depends on each word (a,u,o) can have a different sounds (depends in which word used) and the emphasis also is a dark magic :D there are no such exceptions in Arabic
Arabic can be difficult but simple. English can be easy but complex.
- abol3z 8y agoI agree with you, I even think that Arabic speakers are the best at understanding foreigners speech. As he pointed, you might tell your girlfriend this is a gift from your dog (كلب) instead of heart (قلب), but I'm sure that if she is a native speaker, she'll understand correctly. I've seen the same mistakes happen in other languages, but the native speaker usually miss the meaning. I think this relates to the fact that Arabic spoken language has a vast number is unique dialects, and they mostly understand each others dialects, unlike other languages that differs between dialects mostly in spelling sounds.
- hedvig 8y agoAnd language aside, a partner that is willing to meet you halfway in understanding is a great partner. :)
- afarrell 8y ago> in english pronunciation depends on each word (a,u,o) can have a different sounds (depends in which word used) It is also highly regional. Someone from Glasgow pronounces things rather differently to someone from Brighton.
- bunderbunder 8y agoIs it as regional as Arabic, though? I don't speak Arabic, but my understanding is that someone from Morocco can't necessarily hold an easy conversation with someone from Qatar. Whereas, I can name very few varieties of English that aren't easily mutually intelligible with basically all of the rest of the English-speaking world - patois and gullah, for example.
- Salamat 8y agoIn my work, I have colleagues from all Arabic countries among others, I talk to people of Morroco and my Arabic is more Levante, with no issue at all. Syrian dialect, along with Egyptian, has gained a lot of ease in the region due to popular tv series and movies (more Egyptian than Syrian ones)I predict that the variations will be reduced since the differences grow out of old geographical barriers that gave distinctions and differences. There is a lesser strict everyday language that is very simple yet formal Arabic, as in the news, be it TV or online. So please look further before jumping to conclusions, as in the region you would read the news regardless of the geographical aspect of the source. If an Arabic website in Morroco has a compelling news story, or article speakers of Arabic in the whole region and abroad will read it very comfortably.
- jki275 8y agoThe difference is that English words don't really change meanings based on pronunciation. Words do have many pronunciations, but the meaning remains the same.
- mbel 8y agoOh really, what about 'lead' and 'lead'?
- t-3 8y agoThey will never be confused because context supplies the clues.
- jeremysmyth 8y agoThis is often true, but far from universal. Oftentimes there are differences in verb and noun (as with "lead" and "lead"), or transitive vs. intransitive verbs ("seconded"), but occasionally we have problems with two nouns or two verbs with the same form: "I read that magazine": do I mean regularly, or that I have done in the past? "The messenger wrote down Lincoln's address": was that his home, or his speech? The context would need to be quite explicit to work around problems such as this.
- beat 8y agoIf context supplied enough clues, grammar correction software would work much better than it does.
- davidivadavid 8y agoWords don't change meaning based on pronunciation. They're different words.
- umanwizard 8y agoWhat do you mean? “Dog” and “cat” have different pronunciations in English, and therefore mean different things.