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I took all dead languages (Latin, Greek, Biblical Hebrew, and Ugaritic) because you don't have to learn to speak any of them...haha.
I took three years of Arabic in college...Modern Standard...a year of Egyptian, and a year of Levantine. To be FLUENT in Arabic, my Arabic prof (he is FANTASTIC...specialist in pre-Islamic poetry, from Egypt, and is also on staff at the American University in Cairo) it takes native English speakers many years. NYU is going to have a campus in Abu Dhabi...they're off and running with an undergraduate program but the grad program is years in the works. I'd LOVE to do my PhD over there in Museum Studies while learning Arabic "the right way"...meaning immersion...I need immersion to be able to speak well.
I'd love to learn Persian...it's MUCH EASIER than Arabic.
I took three years of Arabic in college...Modern Standard...a year of Egyptian, and a year of Levantine. To be FLUENT in Arabic, my Arabic prof (he is FANTASTIC...specialist in pre-Islamic poetry, from Egypt, and is also on staff at the American University in Cairo) it takes native English speakers many years. NYU is going to have a campus in Abu Dhabi...they're off and running with an undergraduate program but the grad program is years in the works. I'd LOVE to do my PhD over there in Museum Studies while learning Arabic "the right way"...meaning immersion...I need immersion to be able to speak well.
I'd love to learn Persian...it's MUCH EASIER than Arabic.