Why Chinese Learn Arabic?

Questions for Chinese about Arabic language  - Answer

Why do you learn Arabic ?

Zhang : At first ,  I thought the arabic wordl is a very mysterious world.

Li : Arabic is an ancient language ,It is interesting to larn it.

Liu : Because not so many peaople study Arabic , I wanted to learn it.

Wang : Chinese think that , there are not many people using Arabic,but that’s simply not true , Arabic is one of the six UN working languages, three hundred million Arabs use it , as native language all around the world.And more than one billio Muslims use it as a religious language.

Is it difficult to learn Arabic ?

Zhang  : It’s hard,very hard.

Li : Terrible , It’s very difficult at the beginning , The are more letters than other languages.

Liu : It’s hard to begin , but easy once you’re going.

What are some common misconceptions people have about Arab countries ?

Wang : Oil tycoons.

Zhang : Conservative.

Li : Some live in poverty.

Liu : A bad climate.

Wang : not suitable for living.

Zhang : People there,maybe thy’re in battles all the time.

Li  : Actually, there are splendid civilizations.

Liu : Lebanon is always in conflit according to the news. But if you’re there, you’ll see it’s very multicultural.

Wang : It’s actually peaceful when you really got there,and it’s really really beautiful scenery  and people are very kind.

Zhang : Most Arab people love peace.

Li : They have strong faith in their spirit.

Liu : We need to go deep and to learn more from them.

Wang : There are big differences between different Arab countries , In the minds of the chinese people the rab world is a single concept but is not simple it has richness and diversity.

Do you have anything to recommend about the Arabe culture ?

Zhang : I think i like the Arabic literature very much , I like the works from Gibran that we all know and Naguib Mahfouz , Who is the Only Nobel literature prize winner from ana Arabic country.

Zhang : I would like to recommend the poems by Adonis they are very beautiful if you read them in Arabic.

Li : I prefer the Arabic music and i know it’s very diefferent from the music that we are listening to every day.

Liu : I really like the songs from the Ara countries , for their melody and strong rhytms, the Arabic music makes you want to dance.