<p>A WARNING ABOUT ARABIC: Arabic is listed as one of the six most difficult languages. But the ranking is BS. I lived in USA then went back to Iraq with only "marhaba" and I ended fluent in 3 months(with writing of course), but it took me quite a while(about 2 years) to differentiate well between mascular and feminin!!</p>
<p>and by the way, there is something called "I'rab": its like defining this word as subject, object, verb(and another 100 things that are exclusive too arabic" I'm still taking "i'rab" in HS, so that needs a while to learn.</p>
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but i agree that chinese is useful, whats with chinas rise as an economic giant and all. and it isnt THAT difficult to be master it.
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<p>LOL...sure it isn't. :p</p>
<p>If you learn Hindi, pick up Rupert Snell's book.</p>
<p>If you want to learn another Indian language, which has a large (but not wide) range of speakers, learn bengali.</p>
<p>Why did you dig up this thread?</p>