“Alsalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh” this is “hello” in formal Arabic

In this section I’m going to help you learn a new language, not one, I will try my best to illustrate things about different languages

As you can see, I’m an Arabic girl, so it is easy for me to illustrate Arabic, my first language, and to me the most beautiful

Then I’m going to talk about Japanese Language, it is my third language -after English- but as you are already reading this site, I assume you know English enough!

After Japanese, I’m going to talk about Deutsch, it is my forth language, then I will help you to find good sites for other languages I didn’t learn, like French and Hebrew

Hope you benefit this section a lot, and always remember “Learning a language can never be a disadvantage” and “Little continuous is better than lot interrupted”

Here we go:

Arabic Language

The most interesting thing in Arabic is that it has a special letters

If you like painting letters in a beautiful way you should try Arabic and Japanese, they have artistic letters

For Arabic letters and their pronunciation you can look at this table:

The nice and easy thing in Arabic is that every letter has just one pronunciation, for example “seen” in Arabic is just like “c” in English word “acid”, and will never be pronounced like “k” in word “cold”

And there is no letter like the other, they are never the same sound, like the English “e” or “i” or even “y”, or “s” and “c”! it is just one letter “yaa” and “seen”

As you can see there is a lot of letters that can’t be pronounced by English letters, actually you can find some of them in other languages, but to know how to pronounce it you should hear it, for that and other teaching purposes I chose the best sites I found for learning Arabic, plus a very nice song to learn them.

But before that I have to tell you something very important in Arabic language, which is the marks above or below letters

This is not found in English, actually I don’t know any language uses this marks, and don’t confuse them with the “umlaut” of French and German languages, it is not a separate letter by themselves, it can attach to any letter of the above and change its voice

In short I will demonstrate them in one letter, lets say “seen”, and show you the change of sound:

Finally I will tell you that the letters changes its shape “but never pronunciation” when it is in the beginning of a word or in the meddle or in the end, and by this you can tell that this is one word and the next is another word, example:

This is the sentence I wrote in the beginning

About sentences the order is:

Verb-Subject-Object

And the thing that is really different than other languages is that the sentence can be a noun one, that means a sentence without a verb, because Arabic doesn’t contain a verb to be, which means we don’t say you are Adam, instead we say: you Adam. and it is grammatically right

Now you can visit this youtube link for the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN0we7FWL1s

And this site to start your beautiful lessons:

http://afl.sakhr.com/

The next site needs payment, but still you can take some things from it now:

http://www.funwitharabic.com/song.htm

Japanese Language

Japanese language is very interesting and easy, a lot of people say it is the most difficult language, or the Chinese one, I didn’t learn the Chinese language but Japanese language is certainly not the most difficult! if you are talking about the kanji I must admit it is difficult, but grammar, word order or pronunciation it is really beautiful

What you should know about Japanese language, it is made of 3 types of writing systems, the hiragana, katakana and kanji

Both hiragana and katakana are vocal letters, like Arabic you pronounce exactly the letter you see

While the kanji is a meaningful pictures, like you draw a tree -or something like it- and you call it “ki”, so you should remember all pictures, but as a foreigner don’t bother yourself a lot with it, you will do just fine without them

Writing Japanese is fun, like drawing, here is hiragana:

katakana:

some kanji:

For hiragana letters with animation characters you can visit this link:

http://theshenanigans.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/hiragana_chibi_poster_by_na_insoo.jpg

The word order in this language is:

Subject-Object-Verb

the verb is always in the end as you can see, it really differs comparing it to English or Arabic, but still it is fun

Here are some good sites to learn Japanese:

http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/

http://www.easyjapanese.org/index.html

http://www.timwerx.net/home/index.htm

Deutsch Language

Germany called “Deutsch” and pronounced “doitsh”

Pronunciation in Germany is not difficult, “eu” is always pronounced “oi”, you will get it fast

Letters in Germany is the lateen ones, with some umlaut ones

Here you can see the letters and how you pronounce it:

You will get them by listening

Now I should say Germany grammar is not that easy, it contains a lot of pronouns, when you are a male or female, subject or object, single or plural, actually this applies to Arabic too!

For the sentence it is:

Subject-Verb-Object

Here is the site where I learn Germany, it contains mp3 for each lesson:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,2548,00.html

You can choose from the same site another lesson courses, and all are good, good luck

French Language

I didn’t learn French, so it is difficult for me to give the best sites while I didn’t actually used it, but here are some sites I think are good:

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/

http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/French/index.html

Hebrew Language

I didn’t learn Hebrew too, but here are some good sites:

http://www.akhlah.com/aleph_bet/aleph-bet.php

http://www.milingua.com/HebrewBeginnersFree/BeginnersFree.htm