Want to learn to speak another language? Choose Arabic.

Arabic language is considered to be one of the most plentiful, bright and clear languages in the world. If you try to translate five pages of Arabic text into Russian – you would have the text which is twice as big as the original one. The interpretations of Quran are a good example of these Arabic language properties. So, why not to learn to speak another language and start studying Arabic?

Foreign philologists are astonished by the richness of Arabic language – Arabic texts seem untranslatable to some of them. Any translations from Arabic are just approximate – so, other languages don’t have adequate expressions for Arabic vocabulary abundance. Arabs usually don’t use weird or “empty” words and their aspiration to language accuracy determines the perfection and complexity of Arabic language.

Here are some interesting facts about Arabic language.

There are more than 422 million people in the world who speak Arabic language as their mother one (2009).

Arabic is the official language of 26 countries, as well as the UNO, African Union and the Arab League.

There are 5 dialect groups in current spoken Arabic language. Besides, there are more than 30 Arabic territorial dialects. In addition to that, there are also local dialects in each country.

Literary Arabic language is unified. This is the official language and the language of mass media and TV in Arab countries.

Egyptian dialect is considered to be the most apprehensible for Arabic speaking people. That is why universities and schools in many Arab countries prefer to hire teachers from Egypt.

It is written from right to left in Arabic, both words and numbers. What is more, there are no capital letters in Arabic language unlike languages with Latin or Cyrillic letters – that’s why proper nouns and the first words in a sentence are written like any other words. So, don’t be surprised that an Egyptian writes all the words in small letters including your name.

All punctuation marks are written upside down.

In Arabic there is no neuter – only masculine and feminine.

Arabic alphabet has 28 letters.

All the words in Arabic start with consonants.

There are about 1000 words in Arabic which mean “camel”.

“Sahara” means “desert” in Arabic language.

Quran is written in classical Arabic language which is considered the language of worship in Islam.

If you want to speak Arabic as another language it won’t be easy for you but it’s worth doing it.