Introduction:
Learning Arabic might not affect your English skills; it actually depends on you. A person who is a fast learner and stays focused might not get confused between Arabic & English. However, a person who is not focused and gets distracted easily might face issues while reading or writing stages only. There are dozens of varieties of the Arabic language — generally classified by the region or country in which they’re spoken — that can be radically different from one another. So the first step is to choose which dialect you want to pursue, but that’s the easy part. Arabic is another language with a non-Latin alphabet. Its 28 script letters are easier for English speakers to comprehend than the thousands of Chinese characters, but it’s still an adjustment to become familiar with a new writing system. The thing that makes reading and writing in Arabic particularly challenging for beginners is the exclusion of most vowels in words. This makes reading the language very difficult. Arabic is also written from right to left instead of left to right, which takes some getting used to.
So instead of looking at this topic in a pessimistic manner, we’ll understand this by discussing the benefits an English speaker can get while learning Arabic: