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Comment by kqr

1 day ago

This explains a lot of why I think Arabic looks so beautiful on the page. I also love the way it can sound when spoken. Shame I don't have reason good enough to take the years I would need to learn it.

Learning language is like learning poetry. Your appreciation of the thing grows proportionally with the practice. Which means you don't need to learn to fluency to appreciate Arabic. Even modest practice, just learning to write the alphabet, will increase your appreciation for the language if that's what you'd like to do.

It's funny -- I hate the way Arabic sounds when spoken, even though I agree it looks pretty. To my ears French and Japanese sound the nicest.