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Is Persian easy?
Is it Difficult to Learn? Compared with the other major language of the Middle East and some European languages, Persian is relatively easy for English-speaking people to learn, and is regarded as extremely sonorous and beautiful to listen to. Persian is remarkably simple in terms of formal grammar.
Which language is German most similar to?
German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish.
Is Farsi easier than German?
Persian is in the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, while German is from the Germanic branch. Modern German and modern Persian are, however, different. Yes almost. Persian (Farsi) is easier than German (Deutsch) to some extent.
What are the similarities between the Arabic and Persian languages?
Arabic and Persian are totally different languages, but both with a mostly common alphabet, overlapping vocabulary (nearly all going from Arabic to Persian), and with ties to Islam. The similarity is a bit like that between English and French.
How can I learn Arabic and Farsi at the same time?
The main ways it helps to know either Persian or Arabic to learn Arabic or Farsi are Knowing Persian or Arabic and learning the other gives you a jump start on reading/writing, as Farsi and Arabic alphabets are mostly the same. The first obstacle to learning either Arabic or Farsi is the alphabet.
Is the Persian language pronounced like French?
But Persian is less distinctly pronounced than even Egyptian and Lebanese dialects. Persian at times sounds like French. In fact, many Persian migrants to France have excellent French accents and have much less trouble pronouncing French than they Persian migrants to English-speaking countries do with English.
What percentage of Farsi words are of Arabic origin?
And if you look through a dictionary (not frequency-weighted), you’ll find that 40\% of all words useable in Farsi are of Arabic origin. Interestingly, there’s very little that goes the other way — very few Persian words that end up in Arabic (and if they do, it’s only in colloquial Arabic, not the official language).