Arabic Chinese

<p>Anyone know how time consuming or difficult the first course in Chinese or Arabic are? How about Erdu?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

<p>My roommate says Arabic is three times a week and you get homework for each class period. Each assignment takes about 2 hours (sometimes longer when you start getting to third quarter) but she is pretty good at picking up languages so the assignments might take longer for other people. The 2 hours per assignment does not include studying. There is a test roughly every 2 weeks covering an entire chapter.</p>

<p>In terms of difficulty she says it wasn’t too bad but again she’s good at languages. Half the class dropped, either before week 4 or they just didn’t continue to quarter two. The grammar is killer apparently.</p>